nommer
French, verb/nɔ.me/
nommer is spelled N-O-M-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nommer is a French verb meaning “to nominate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attribuer, imposer un nom à une personne, une chose ou une collectivité”.
What does nommer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nominate
- 2
to name, to call
- 3
to be called, to call oneself
Je me nomme Gus.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attribuer, imposer un nom à une personne, une chose ou une collectivité. 2. Qualifier, décerner une épithète. 3. Dire le nom d’une personne, d’une chose ; dire comment une personne, une chose s’appelle. 4. Désigner, énumérer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nommer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- nommant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nommé participle past
- nomme first-person indicative present
- nommes indicative present second-person
- nommons first-person indicative plural
- nommez indicative plural present
- nomment indicative plural present
- nommais first-person imperfect indicative
- nommait imperfect indicative singular
- nommions first-person imperfect indicative
- nommiez imperfect indicative plural
- nommaient imperfect indicative plural
- nommai first-person historic indicative
- nommas historic indicative past
- nomma historic indicative past
- nommâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nommer?
- /nɔ.me/
- \nɔ.me\
- [nɔ.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nommer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nommer in French?
nommer appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).