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Translation of me – English–French dictionary pronoun ● direct object the object of “I”, indicates yourself before a consonant me , before a vowel m’ , indirect object or after a preposition moi Tell me what you need. Dis-moi ce dont tu as besoin. I’m not sure if she heard me. Je ne suis pas sûr qu’elle m’ait entendu. (Translation of me from the GLOBAL English-French Dictionary © 2016 K Dictionaries Ltd) Translation of me | PASSWORD English-French Dictionarymepronoun /miː/● (used as the object of a verb or preposition and sometimes instead of I) the word used by a speaker or writer when referring to himself m’ (before vowel or silent “h”), me, moi He hit me Give that to me It’s me He can go with John and me. (Translation of me from the PASSWORD English-French Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd) Translations of mein Chinese (Traditional) （用於動詞或介詞後）我, 音樂（大音階的第三音）, 肌痛性腦脊髓炎，慢性疲勞綜合症（myalgic encephalomyelitis的縮寫）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （用于动词或介词后）我, 咪（大音阶的第三音）, 慢性疲劳综合征（myalgic encephalomyelitis的缩写）… See more in Spanish mí, a mí, me… See more in Portuguese me, mim, forma abreviada de “Maine”… See more in Japanese in Turkish in Catalan in Arabic in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian in Russian 私を（に、と）、”I” の目的格… See more beni, bana… See more em, mi, jo… See more أنا… See more mě, mně, já… See more mig… See more saya… See more ฉัน… See more tôi, tao, tớ… See more mi, mnie, mną… See more saya… See more mich, mir, ich… See more meg… See more 나… See more мені, мене… See more me, mi, a me… See more я, меня, мне… See more Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! Translator tool See the definition of me in the English dictionary Browsemaypole maze MB MBA me meadow meagre meagrely meagreness Classic Mistakes, French Conversation, French Culture, French Lifestyle, Insider Tips for Francophiles, Slang & Swearing, Speaking French, Writing & SpellingDownload this Lesson as a PDF Today, I want to talk to you about one of the most common clichés in French — “mon ami” — and why you should never use it in French conversations. People in France never use “mon ami” the way you might use “my friend” in English. It’s another common mistake that I hear all the time, like using “bien fait” or saying bonjour twice. “But Géraldine,” you might say, “I do hear it a lot in movies! Even with Lumière in Beauty and the Beast! Are you saying Disney lied to me?” Yes, I am! If you use “mon ami” (on its own) in France, you’ll sound like a tourist who only knows French clichés. Let’s fix that. Today, we’ll look into why you shouldn’t say “mon ami” so much, and what to say instead. Bonjour I’m Géraldine, your French teacher. Welcome to Comme une Française. C’est parti ! Download Lesson as PDF
Download Lesson as PDF 1) “Mon ami” is just a clichéMon ami (or mon amie in the feminine) means “my friend.” If there’s a French character in an American movie, they basically have to say it at some point. Like in this scene of Beauty and the Beast. It’s kind of like saying Bonjour with a really heavy accent. Sure, it shows that the character is French, but it’s not something you’d actually hear in France. Using “Mon ami” alone as “Hello my friend” will make you sound like you only know French clichés – and you deserve better! It’s basically the oral version of Marcel Gotlib’s SuperDupont: a funny stereotypical representation that doesn’t exist.  By the way, in the French (dubbed) version, Lumière is… Italian! At least that’s what his accent implies, with his rolled R’s – for example in “Y’a l’pour et y’a l’contre” (= “There are pros and cons,” casual spoken French) Can you hear it? Other works used the same “trick” of turning a French character (in the original version) into an Italian one (in the French dubbed version), like Pepe le Pew / Pépé le Putois. 2) “Mon ami” in French: what it really meansMon ami(e) is used for very close friends. You can use it in a sentence. To introduce your friend, for example: But using it on its own, such as Bonjour, mon ami, comment ça va ? to mean “Hello my friend”, is a cliché. When I was working in Leeds, England on July 14th, kind people would wish me a “Happy Bastille day” in French. That’s very nice! But “Le jour de la Bastille” does NOT exist in French – it’s just “Le 14 Juillet”. Another misconception! You can find more in my lesson: Le 14 Juillet 3) “Mon ami” : What you can say insteadInstead of “mon ami”, you can simply use your friend’s name. For instance: Or you can also just say… nothing! Bonjour, mon ami. → Bonjour. The scary thing is, this is a common mistake you might be making without even realizing it. And it’s not the only one! You’ll find more examples of common French mistakes in this short playlist, like using “Bien fait” for “well done” (when it actually means “Serves you right”), or saying “bonjour” twice in the same day to the same person! À tout de suite.
Download Lesson as PDF And now: → If you enjoyed this lesson (and/or learned something new) – why not share this lesson with a francophile friend? You can talk about it afterwards! You’ll learn much more if you have social support from your friends 🙂 → Double your Frenchness! Get my 10-day “Everyday French Crash Course” and learn more spoken French for free. Students love it! Start now and you’ll get Lesson 01 right in your inbox, straight away. Click here to sign up for my FREE Everyday French Crash Course Allez, salut 🙂 Géraldine Join the conversation!Petros says: August 15, 2022 at 12:42 am Merci our vos cours… Reply Mélanie says: August 13, 2022 at 11:10 am Bonjour Geraldine et Arthur, Reply
Andrés says: August 5, 2022 at 6:46 pm Are you in México? Reply
Sara says: July 25, 2022 at 5:54 am Is there some form of saying “mon ami/e” to refer to your boyfriend/girlfriend? Or is that “mon petit”? Reply
Fred says: July 23, 2022 at 2:43 pm Mon amie la Rose – d’aprés Françoise Hardy, caused me some difficulty, but Géraldine sorted it: Reply Linda Prine says: July 19, 2022 at 5:13 pm This is so informative. I got used to Cajun French but never learned the ral French. Reply Gregory Bochow says: June 13, 2022 at 5:28 am Instead of using bonjour more than once, try doing and saying as mon chien “BOOZER”…..He says…”BONE APPETIT ” all of the time. many times a day !! Reply Alexander Joseph says: May 19, 2022 at 2:00 am This just makes me really sad, like I’m a fool for even trying to speak french. Why even try if you’re going to be this judgmental for trying to call someone “my friend”? 🙁 Reply
Danielle says: May 14, 2022 at 11:01 am I noticed your examples are all cases of one individual speaking to another individual, but does it still applies in more general statements? Like if a public speaker says it to a group to imply a more general intimacy, or maybe in fiction literature where a character is talking more directly to the reader. For example, I think I’ve heard the phrase ‘Au contraire, mes amis’ used a couple of times, but that was in English language fiction, so I’m wondering if that would still come off as cliche if it was part of a full French sentence to a speaker. Reply
Alex says: May 8, 2022 at 9:19 am Why isn’t it ‘ma amie’ for female friends? Or is it the fact that you’d have two vowels right next to each other? Reply
Liza says: March 25, 2022 at 8:25 am So helpful! Reply Côme says: March 22, 2022 at 3:37 pm Dear Friends at Comme une Française, Reply Alan says: February 24, 2022 at 1:42 pm So, what could you say when seeing a french friend after many, five, years besides just saying their name? We had a French foreign exchange student, a young woman, live with us years back. She has visited us many times since, our daughter stayed with her family in Paris several times, we have had dinner at her parents house in Paris … anyhow, she is like another daughter to me. We are all meeting up in Dublin soon (hopefully covid continues to settle down) and I wanted to joyfully express my affection for her in french when we first see her … Reply
tyler says: February 11, 2022 at 10:48 am i’m a American trying to learn french is realy nice Reply Dakotah LeBlond says: January 30, 2022 at 3:36 pm I love everything about this! My family is francophone northern Ontario/Quebec border. I’ve been speaking Acadian English? French? Back and forth? My whole life? So much slang, so many interpretations. Geraldine, thank you for clarifying. Reply Mia says: January 21, 2022 at 8:28 am Hello! I just found this article and I love the comment section! Reply
Leone says: January 3, 2022 at 2:30 pm What should you say instead of saying bonjour twice to the same person on the same day? Reply
Jenny says: January 2, 2022 at 3:29 am Cher ami Reply Ugly American says: December 28, 2021 at 1:59 pm Another drawn out way for the French to incessantly criticize Americans- even if they are trying to speak the language and say something pleasant. Reply Viktoria says: December 21, 2021 at 4:59 pm Can I use Reply
Michelle says: October 28, 2021 at 3:16 pm Mes amies in France say mon ami or mon Cher ami quite often, oddly enough more to be polite to acquaintances than dear friends Reply cool shades says: October 7, 2021 at 2:35 am is there a French word for ‘heck’, the American expression? Reply
bob says: September 14, 2021 at 1:06 pm very nice Reply
Bob says: August 21, 2021 at 5:53 am In British English we are continually using terms of endearment with strangers – most commonly “mate” (also pal, love, pet, duck, hinny, fella, chum, mucker and many more, with some being gendered terms). Basically just for anyone whose name we don’t know. Is there a French equivalent? Reply
Paula says: July 22, 2021 at 1:08 am I have a dear friend who is fluent in French. She studied at Sorbonne in Paris. Speaking with her will help me learn faster. I love French and the country and people! Reply
Rose says: July 14, 2021 at 3:53 pm What does Ma douce amie mean? is it romantic or sweet. a man said it to me after bouts of flirting and giving mixed signals. Reply
Shane Monson says: July 13, 2021 at 2:57 pm That being said, this is very common in Cajun French culture and used very often. That also being said Cajun French is completely foreign to French spoken in France as it’s a broken dialect of Canadian French. Reply bluesky says: June 10, 2021 at 9:44 am Really like your Website. I have met a frensh man that I really like so now I am trying to pick up some frensh words. Did I understood you right, that I can use “mon ami” if it is a close/special friend like the man I met ;-)? We are not at the point yet were I would call him “mon cheri” 🙂 Reply
Nicole Allen says: May 13, 2021 at 11:52 pm This is literally the first and only page I’ve read from your lesson thus far. So when I engage in some more, it is then I will comment on something. Merci beaucoup Reply
Venus says: April 25, 2021 at 6:34 pm I’m trying to learn French and I came across this when trying to figure out what “ami” means and I love this website already! Reply
Diego says: April 14, 2021 at 5:09 am Love the way you explain it – am sold on the concept already! Reply Will Bill says: April 13, 2021 at 10:42 pm Merci, mon ami! Reply James Johnson says: March 30, 2021 at 3:37 pm I think the use of “my friend” in English is also a bit odd. It’s can be used in introducing someone and not sound weird (“Hi, John, this is my friend, Sharon”) or it can sound strangely old-fashioned or even anachronistic (“Hello, my friend”). Most people don’t use “my friend” in a standard greeting. I had a professional acquaintance who said it often to me in phone conversations but I would never say it to an actual close friend. So I can see the subtleties in using “mon ami” in French. Reply
Lisa Dorval says: March 14, 2021 at 9:34 pm I really enjoyed my first look at commeunefrancais.com – can’t wait to dig deeper Reply
Tommy says: February 28, 2021 at 9:25 pm Good evening Geraldine Reply Pee Pee Le Pew says: January 26, 2021 at 10:37 am Absurdité! Pure Merde, eh, Mon Amie! Reply Mike says: January 10, 2021 at 12:28 pm Thank you for your lessons Geraldine. In the meantime, I am wandering, when I have to use in French “au revoir” and when “a la prochaine” or “a bientot” (sorry, I can’t use the french characters easily on my computer)? What is the difference between these words? Reply
Napoleon says: November 26, 2020 at 9:47 am Terrible article. So I shouldn’t use Mon Ami to refer to my friend, I should just use their name or nothing at all? than what do I say when I want to point that they are my friend who is not my best friend? 2/10, have had better French lessons on Google translate Reply
Emma says: November 20, 2020 at 11:52 pm But what if I was introducing a friend? Like ¨This is my friend!¨ would I use something different or just like ¨this is (friendsname)¨? Reply
Paul says: October 25, 2020 at 6:13 pm I am French Canadian. When I reply “mon ami” in an email , it simply means “my friend” (usually someone you consider as a friend be it personal or at work) Reply Penny says: September 11, 2020 at 4:50 am So hercule poirot is stupid for saying mon ami all the time? Reply
Penny says: September 11, 2020 at 4:49 am So hercule pioirot is stupid for saying mon ami all the time? Reply Michele says: August 9, 2020 at 2:42 pm Merci les leçons sont très divertissants et utiles. Reply Lee says: August 7, 2020 at 9:53 pm But, was it that way or just today’s French? Like, Disney’s Lumiere was around 1480s. Maybe that era’s “mon ami” differs than today’s? Of course it was made recently and for today’s audience lol, but I’m curious that perhaps in historical perspective what sounds wrong today might sounded okay back then. Maybe not in your expertise, I mean, history, but aren’t you curious about this? 😉 Thanks. Reply Mary says: June 7, 2020 at 9:04 pm So Fabo! With the cartoons included in the lesson. Tellement excellent avec les bd ajouté dans le leçon Reply
Anne Bennett says: June 5, 2020 at 11:06 am Merci Géraldine ce leçon est très utile merci Reply Victoria says: June 4, 2020 at 2:27 pm Bonjour tous ! I hope I can say that. Great practical lesson – i never knew not to use that. Reply
John says: June 4, 2020 at 4:13 am The English speaking world is awash with expressions Reply Slow Learner says: June 3, 2020 at 4:18 pm Merci, Geraldine. J’aime beaucoup vos commentaires et votre maniere d’explication. Reply Brian Watkinson says: June 3, 2020 at 3:31 am Salut Geraldine Reply
Lee says: June 2, 2020 at 3:22 pm Can you use bien fait for work that is done well? Reply
Simona says: June 2, 2020 at 2:25 pm Beautiful blouse Geraldine! Reply PrevPrevious EpisodeWhy You Can’t Understand Spoken French Next Episode7 Common French Verbs You Need To KnowNext
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Yes, please send me Géraldine's FREE weekly video lessons and occasional special offers from Comme une Française! Do you say me in French?How do you say me in French? Me in French is: “moi” (pronounced mwa). For example, “Venez-vous avec moi?” (Are you coming with me?). The object pronoun “me” also means me.
How do you say my in French feminine?if the thing/person is masculine (le), then you generally use mon to translate 'my'; if the thing/person is feminine (la), then you generally use ma to translate 'my'; if the thing/person is plural (les), then you use mes to translate 'my'.
When to use Moi and me in French?Remember that "me" is a direct and also an indirect object pronoun, whereas "moi" would occur after a preposition and is a stressed pronoun.
Is it mon ami or mon amie?1) “Mon ami” is just a cliché
Mon ami (or mon amie in the feminine) means “my friend.” If there's a French character in an American movie, they basically have to say it at some point. Like in this scene of Beauty and the Beast. It's kind of like saying Bonjour with a really heavy accent.
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How to say me in French feminine
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