rappeler
French, verb/ʁa.ple/
rappeler is a French verb meaning “to call again; to call back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appeler de nouveau”.
What does rappeler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to call again; to call back
Ton père a téléphoné. Peux-tu le rappeler ?
- 2
to remind
Rappelle-moi mon rôle.
- 3
to recall, remember (use without de is formal and rare; use with de much more common but still proscribed)
Je ne me le rappelle pas.
- 4
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
Il y a quelque temps, une entreprise spécialisée dans la nourriture canine a rappelé un de ses produits.
- 5
to pull through (a rope)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appeler de nouveau. 2. Faire revenir une personne qui s’en va, une personne absente. 3. Faire revenir un acteur sur la scène pour l’applaudir. 4. Presser, obliger.
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 rappeler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rappelant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rappelé participle past
- rappelle first-person indicative present
- rappelles indicative present second-person
- rappelons first-person indicative plural
- rappelez indicative plural present
- rappellent indicative plural present
- rappelais first-person imperfect indicative
- rappelait imperfect indicative singular
- rappelions first-person imperfect indicative
- rappeliez imperfect indicative plural
- rappelaient imperfect indicative plural
- rappelai first-person historic indicative
- rappelas historic indicative past
- rappela historic indicative past
- rappelâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rappeler?
- /ʁa.ple/
- \ʁa.ple\
- \ʁa.pə.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rappeler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rappeler in French?
rappeler appears 51 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).