Lovely sounds

Some of my favourite words in German are those which have already been appropriated by English - wanderlust and schadenfreude, for example. Blumen is another very sweet-sounding German word (especially for a language which is considerably less sonorous than French or Italian or even English). The word means "flowers", which adds to all the positive feelings I associate with the word. One of the cutest words though is Handy (pronounced as haandi, with a very short and soft 'di'). That's the German word for a mobile phone. Really cute!