ils
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Latin illos (accusative plural of ille) used in Vulgar Latin in place of the missing third-person pronoun.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Pronoun
ils
- They.
[edit] Usage notes
Ils is used for a group with at least one masculine noun in (even if there is only one masculine noun and a thousand feminine nouns in the group). If the group referred to contains only feminine nouns, elles is to be used.
[edit] Related terms
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j' | me, m' | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu, t' | te, t' | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s' | le, l' | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l' | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s' | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
