Submerg (@ svp)

[sturdy kayak]

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[pseudo ibex]

what do you mean by that?

like shortening people's names?

[desert granite]

yeah; nicknames and the such

[pseudo ibex]

oooh

uhm well there's like a lot of known nicknames (like for example if you have the name Gabriel(le), they're going to call you Gaby) but then depends on the person ngl

[desert granite]

i more ask about general methods; the fandom i am writing for does not use actual IRL names for all the characters so i wanted to figure out how to form nicknames

[pseudo ibex]

depends on what you're tryna achieve ngl

you can give it a cute vibe or like russian vibes too

(happened with my irl name lol)

maybe you can send names here so we can do it together

[desert granite]

well i got this group of plural peeps. ill include preferred pronouns in case its relevant for gendering:
June, elle (this one is just loaned directly from her english name, though i might change it. its rather unusual though, and is actually derived from "Junior" as a nickname)
Condor, il
Capi, il (his English name is Skipper, so i did a funny of "yeah nobody knows how the heck he came to be called "Capitaine")
Freuse, iel avec l'accord feminin (feminized form of Freux, which is something done with a few canon names; they/she in english)
Cormoranne, elle (< Cormoran)
Rouge, iel avec l'accord neutre (i.e. un·e dragon·ne) (they/them)
Manchot, il ou elle depending on the day

another system owned by a friend:
Renarde, elle
Zéphyr, il ou elle
Rafal? il (wasnt sure on this translation)

the above caste was for translating an RP as an exercise because i was bored. two more OCs i named bc boredom:

Jais et Morpho, il pour tous deux

and i am in the process of some new characters for a specifically French story, of whom only one is named: Paradisière, elle (< Paradisier)

[desert granite]

Im aware at least of clippings, but I’m not sure what the options are for suffixes. I feel like I’ve also seen reduplication. Also, what about rhyming? English has a habit of swapping the first consonant (Bob, Bill, Dick, etc.)

[hot sigil]

There are no names shortenings in French like you can find in Polish and the like

Only some names have common diminutives, and they don’t follow a pattern
But you can come up with one yourself for your friends

[desert granite]

There’s no common diminutive affixes?

[tawny saffron]

@desert granite as far as I know it is either shortening or reduplication.
Some names can fit both patterns e.g. Julien -> Juju or Jul
I don't recall any phoneme swap like Robert -> Bob. Bob would feel strange in French if not for the English influence.