Как по-русски «boyfriend»?

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Hi, I've been taking a beginning Russian class for 8 weeks now, and I decided to join an LJ community to help me learn more. So I have a question... what is the Russian word for "boyfriend"? My dictionary doesn't have that entry and I haven't been able to find a translation on any of the online translators. But then I went to lingvo.yandex.ru and it told me: парень, молодой человек; партнер, сожитель. But I'm not really sure what the differences are between them. I just want to know the general word for "boyfriend". And what are some words for terms of endearment? Thanks.

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[gdt.livejournal.com]

>and (sorry, can't be bothered to type in Cyrillic), "medovnaya" or something along those lines (ie, "honey")

"медовая". used quite seldom.