How to Give Your Email Address

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Welcome to Can-Do French by FrenchPod101.com.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to give your e-mail address in French.

For example, "My e-mail address is constance@innolang.com." is

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

Constance Collin is at city hall registering her address.

A civil servant is asking for her email address.

Before you hear their conversation, let’s preview some of its key components.

e-mail

"e-mail"

e-mail

Listen to the conversation, and focus on the response.

Note: the civil servant in this conversation uses formal French.

Ready?

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

Once more with the English translation.

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

"Your e-mail, please."

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is constance@innolang.com."

Let's break down the conversation.

Do you remember how the civil servant says,

"Your e-mail, please."

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Let’s start with the word, e-mail, meaning "e-mail." E-mail. E-mail.

In French, all nouns have grammatical gender and are either singular or plural. E-mail is masculine and singular — a fact that determines the form of other words in the sentence.

Note, the official term for e-mail in French is courriel, which is masculine. Courriel. Courriel. However, e-mail is more widely used in everyday speech.

Before this is votre, meaning "your" when addressing one person in a formal context. Votre. Votre.

Note votre fundamentally means "your" when addressing more than one person, but it’s also a formal way to say "your" when speaking to one person directly using formal French.

All together, it’s votre e-mail. "Your e-mail." Votre e-mail.

Last is s’il vous plaît, meaning "please." S’il vous plaît. S’il vous plaît.

All together, it’s Votre e-mail, s’il vous plaît. "Your e-mail, please."

Votre e-mail, s’il vous plaît.

Remember this request. You’ll hear it again later.

Let’s take a closer look at the response.

Do you remember how Constance says,

"My e-mail is constance@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

Do you remember how to say "e-mail?"

E-mail. "e-mail." E-mail.

Before this is mon, "my." Mon. Mon.

Mon is masculine singular to agree with e-mail.

All together it’s mon e-mail. "My e-mail" Mon e-mail.

Next is est, "is," as in "my e-mail is." Est. Est

Est is from the verb être, meaning "to be." Être.

Together, it’s Mon e-mail est… "My e-mail is.…" Mon e-mail est…

Next is Constance’s e-mail address: constance@innolang.com.

Note how Constance says her e-mail address.

First is Constance’s name spelled out. Se, o, en, es, te, a, en, se, eo.

Next is the "at sign," which is arobase in French. Arobase. Arobase.

After this is the domain name, innolang, pronounced in French. Innolang.

Next is point, "dot." Point. Point.

And last is com. "Com." Com. Com.

All together, it’s Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is constance@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

The pattern is

Mon e-mail est E-MAIL ADDRESS.

"My e-mail is E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Mon e-mail est E-MAIL ADDRESS.

To use this pattern, simply replace the {E-MAIL ADDRESS} placeholder with your e-mail address.

Imagine your e-mail address is prune@innolang.com. pé erre u enne eu arobase innolang point com

Say,

"My e-mail is prune@innolang.com."

Ready?

Mon e-mail est prune@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is prune@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est prune@innolang.com.

When giving your e-mail address in French, if the domain name is well-known, you don’t need to spell it out. For example, if your e-mail address has the domain, "gmail," as in "gmail.com," you can just say, gmail.

Outside of well-known domain names, however, it will usually be necessary to spell it out.

Again, the key pattern is

Mon e-mail est E-MAIL ADDRESS.

"My e-mail is E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Mon e-mail est E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Let’s look at some more examples.

Listen and repeat, or speak along with the native speakers.

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is constance@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

Mon e-mail est prune@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is prune@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est prune@innolang.com.

Mon e-mail est corentin@innolang.com

"My e-mail is corentin@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est corentin@innolang.com

Mon e-mail est sadia@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is sadia@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est sadia@innolang.com.

lya@innolang.com.

"My e-mail is lya@innolang.com."

lya@innolang.com.

Did you notice how the last speaker omitted mon e-mail est ?

lya@innolang.com.

lya@innolang.com

When directly responding to a request, it’s often possible to omit part of the response.

Here by simply giving your e-mail address, there’s no need to say mon e-mail est, "My e-mail is."

The pattern is

E-MAIL ADDRESS.

You should be aware of this shortcut, but for this lesson, we’ll use the pattern

Mon e-mail est E-MAIL ADDRESS.

"My e-mail is E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Let's review.

Respond to the prompts by speaking aloud. Then repeat after the native speaker, focusing on pronunciation.

Ready?

Do you remember how to say "com?"

com.

And how to say "dot?"

point.

Do you remember how to say "innolang.com?"

innolang.com.

And how to say the at sign?

arobase.

Do you remember how to spell "Constance?"

se o en es te a en se eo

And how to say "e-mail?"

e-mail.

Do you remember how to say "my e-mail?"

mon e-mail.

Do you remember how Constance says,

"My e-mail is constance@innolang.com."

Mon e-mail est constance@innolang.com.

Do you remember the formal way to say

"your e-mail."

votre e-mail.

And how to say "please?"

s'il vous plaît.

Do you remember how the clerk says,

"Your e-mail, please."

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Let's practice.

Imagine you’re Christophe Collin , and your e-mail address is christophe@innolang.com.

Respond to the civil servant’s request.

Ready?

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Mon e-mail est christophe@innolang.com

Listen again and repeat.

Mon e-mail est christophe@innolang.com

Let’s try another.

Imagine you're Coralie: se o err a el e eo.

Ready?

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Mon e-mail est coralie@innolang.com

Listen again and repeat.

Mon e-mail est coralie@innolang.com

Let’s try one more.

Imagine you're Tristan : té, erre, i, esse, té, a, en.

Ready?

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Mon e-mail est tristan@innolang.com

Listen again and repeat.

Mon e-mail est tristan@innolang.com

In this lesson, you learned how to give your email address in French. This plays an essential role in the larger skill of sharing your contact information. Let’s review.

Do you remember how to say "phone number?"

numéro de téléphone

And how to say "my phone number?"

Mon numéro de téléphone.

Do you remember how to say

"My phone number is..."

Mon numéro de téléphone est le

Do you remember how Constance says,

"My phone number is 03-5906-2146."

Mon numéro de téléphone est le 03-5906-2146.

Do you remember how the civil servant says,

"Your phone number, please."

Votre numéro de téléphone, s'il vous plaît.

Imagine you're Christophe Collin , and your telephone number is 03-0231-9155, and your email address is christophe@innolang.com.

Do you remember how to read the number "03-0231-9155" in French?

zéro trois, zéro deux trois un, neuf un cinq cinq

Respond to Prune Poli 's request to share the phone number.

Ready?

Votre numéro de téléphone, s'il vous plaît.

Mon numéro de téléphone est le 03-0231-9155.

Listen again and repeat.

Mon numéro de téléphone est le 03-0231-9155.

Now, she asks for your email address.

Votre e-mail, s'il vous plaît.

Mon e-mail est christophe@innolang.com.

Listen again and repeat.

Mon e-mail est christophe@innolang.com.

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