Sert à donner son nom à quelqu'un.
Used to tell someone your name.
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See how the word “Je m'appelle” is used in sentences
Bonjour, je m'appelle Claire. — Hello, my name is Claire.
Je m'appelle comme mon grand-père. — I am named after my grandfather.
Je m'appelle Léa, et vous ? — My name is Léa, and yours?
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testLiterally “I call myself” — s'appeler is reflexive, hence the pronoun me before it, shortened to m' before a vowel. English builds it the other way round, with the name as the complement of to be: my name is Claire.
The conjugation hides a trap everyone falls into: the double l is not everywhere. Je m'appelle, tu t'appelles, il s'appelle — two l's. But nous nous appelons and vous vous appelez — one. The stress shifts, and the spelling follows it.
nom surname
On a French form nom is the family name and prénom the given name. The most common form-filling mistake there is.
Je suis I am
Je suis Claire is grammatical but sounds like an announcement from a stage. On being introduced you say je m'appelle.
Bonjour hello
What comes immediately before the introduction.
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