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Cadeau pour mon cadet Humour Lecture Tranche de vie Discussion (piefed-media.feddit.online)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (15 children)

So cadet means "younger brother?"

It's a pretty common word in english, and obviously of french origin. I don't know why I never thought to look at it more closely. oO

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    Yes, the basic meaning is a younger brother, or sometimes the second born among siblings (the first would be « l’aîné »). For a woman, you would say cadette. Jakylla says it means the youngest, but I would call that the « benjamin ». (Benjamin is Jacob’s youngest son in the Bible.)

    There’s also a military meaning in French : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_des_cadets

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    We also have the expression “le cadet de mes soucis”, which means “the least of my worries”. It’s actually more consistent with the definition given by jakylla...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    We also have the expression “le cadet de mes soucis”

    The least of my mice? D:
    (because I certainly don't want mice running around my place)

    (j/k, kidding)

    Yeah, and I also forgot from my comment above that there is indeed the "cadet-branch" in terms of lineage records, something which tended to be important for the 'nobility.'

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I would say it means "The youngest of a brotherhood" (in french at least), they may not be your brother.

    Actually I think most of the time, such sentence structure "mon cadet" means "my last son"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Aren’t you mixing it up with benjamin?

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