Which article is used with chatouillement?
I want to ask my cat:
"Do you want a tickle?"

Despite having reviewed several example sentences, I cannot determine which article to use:
"Voulez-vous des/le/un/[none] chatouillement?"

It's partly because the "-ment" makes me think that "chatouillement" translates as "tickle-y", but I also notice that the normal English expression "a tickle" is singular and therefore misleading, and would be better understood as "some tickles" or "to be tickled".

(I did learn to say "guili guili" while doing it.)

Question

Which article is used with chatouillement?
I want to ask my cat:
"Do you want a tickle?"

Despite having reviewed several example sentences, I cannot determine which article to use:
"Voulez-vous des/le/un/[none] chatouillement?"

It's partly because the "-ment" makes me think that "chatouillement" translates as "tickle-y", but I also notice that the normal English expression "a tickle" is singular and therefore misleading, and would be better understood as "some tickles" or "to be tickled".

(I did learn to say "guili guili" while doing it.)

Answer

In fact we say ..tu veux que je te caresse .....chatouiller in French is different ......you chatouille somebody ,not animals,in order to make him or her laught....at the armpits for example ..we play that with baby to make them laught and take pictures

Hope it helps 
Happy new year :))

Answer

Hello Philip,

Here are the differences:

Chatouiller = to tickle
Une/la chatouille = a tickle
Des/les chatouilles = some tickles 
Un/le chatouillement = tickling
Des/les chatouillements = tickling
Chatouillant = tickling
Chatouilleux/chatouilleuse = ticklish

In French, in your case and in general, the plural form is used, "des/les chatouilles", which might explain why you did not find much about "chatouillement", which is normally not used in your context.

Here are two examples:

"Veux-tu des chatouilles?"
"Il n'aime pas les chatouilles!"

Here is an example with “chatouillement”:

“J’ai un chatouillement dans la gorge.”, which means “ma gorge me gratte”.

I hope that helps!

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