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llamarse

Spanish, verb/ʝaˈmaɾse/

llamarse is spelled L-L-A-M-A-R-S-E (8 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,631st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Llamarse is a Spanish verb meaning “infinitive of llamar combined with se” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tener una persona, cosa o animal, un nombre que lo identifica”.

What does llamarse mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    infinitive of llamar combined with se

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tener una persona, cosa o animal, un nombre que lo identifica. 2. Dicho del viento, tomar otra dirección. 3. Llevar determinado título o nombre.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of llamarse

  • llamándose gerund
  • llamado masculine participle past
  • llamada feminine participle past
  • llamados masculine participle past
  • llamadas feminine participle past
  • llamarme first-person infinitive singular
  • llamarte infinitive second-person singular
  • llamarnos first-person infinitive plural
  • llamaros infinitive plural second-person
  • llamándome first-person gerund singular
  • llamándote gerund second-person singular
  • llamándonos first-person gerund plural
  • llamándoos gerund plural second-person
  • me llamo first-person indicative present
  • te llamas indicative informal present
  • te llamás indicative informal present
  • se llama indicative present singular
  • nos llamamos first-person indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce llamarse?

  • /ʝaˈmaɾse/
  • [ɟ͡ʝaˈmaɾ.se]
  • [ʝaˈmaɾse]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to llamarse

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is llamarse in Spanish?

llamarse appears 7.8 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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