la

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Note: The first letter is lowercase "L", not uppercase "I"
See also Appendix:Variations of "la"

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[edit] English

Most common English words: neither « suddenly « act « #481: la » further » line » added

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

Originally as the first syllable of Latin labii.

[edit] Noun

Singular
la

Plural
las

la (plural las)

  1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
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[edit] Translations
syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale
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[edit] Etymology 2

Old English lā.

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la

  1. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
  2. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger etc.
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, vol. III ch. 2:
      “Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”

[edit] Asturian

[edit] Article

la f. sg. (masculine el, neuter lo, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

  1. (definite) the

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  • The article la contracts to l' before a word beginning with a or ha: l'asturiana (the Asturian), l'habitación (the habitation)

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin illa

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la f. sg.

  1. Feminine singular definite article; the

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la f. sg.

  1. Accusative feminine singular pronoun before verb.

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[edit] Noun

la m. (plural las)

  1. (music) la (sixth note of a diatonic scale)

[edit] Chickasaw

[edit] Pronoun

la

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Noun

la (plural la's, diminutive la'tje, diminutive plural la'tjes)

  1. la (music)
  2. drawer (short for lade)

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Etymology

From the French and Italian la.

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la

  1. the
    la libro — the book
    la libroj — the books

[edit] Finnish

[edit] Etymology

From lauantai.

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la

  1. lauantai (Saturday)

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French la, from Latin illam, which is the accusative singular feminine of ille.[1]

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[edit] Article

la f. sg.

  1. The (definite article).

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la

  1. (direct object) Her, it.
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    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

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[edit] Noun

la m. inv.

  1. (music) The note 'A'.

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  • Notes:
  1. ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964). “le, la, les”, Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French). Paris: Librairie Larousse.

[edit] Galician

[edit] Pronoun

la f. (accusative)

  1. Mutated form of a. (her)

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The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word

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[edit] Noun

la m. (plural las)

  1. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)

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la f. (usually uncountable)

  1. wool

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology 1

From French l'art

[edit] Noun

la

  1. art

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Article

la

  1. the (definite article)
[edit] Usage notes

Use this article only after a word that ends with an oral (non-nasal) vowel and an oral consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Interjection

la

  1. (archaic) used in dialects at the end of an exclamatory sentence as an emphasis
    ott van la! - there it is!
  2. a syllable used when singing a tune without lyrics

[edit] Ido

[edit] Article

la

  1. the

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin illa, female form of ille.[1]

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la f. sg.

  1. the

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la

  1. her (direct object)
  2. it (feminine)
    ...una improvvisa timidezza però la immobilizza... (Pasolini) - ...a sudden timidity immobilized her though...

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Noun

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la m. inv.

  1. (music) la (musical note)
  2. (music) A (musical note and scale)
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[edit] References

  • Notes:
  1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002). Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), p. 127, Bologna: il Mulino. ISBN 88-15-08638-2.

[edit] Lingua Franca Nova

[edit] Etymology

From the French, Spanish, Italian and Catalan la.

[edit] Article

la

  1. the
    la libro — the book
    la libros — the books

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Particle

la

  1. Indicates that the following word is a cmene (proper noun).

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[edit] Mandarin

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[edit] Pinyin

la (form of la0 or la5)

  1. 啦: final particle of assertion
  2. 坼: split, tear, open
  3. 蓗:
  4. 藌:
  5. 鞡: leg warmer

[edit] Pinyin syllable

la

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, lā, lá, lǎ, or là.

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Verb

la (present tense lar; past tense lot; past participle latt) (bokmål)
la (present tense lèt [leter/lar]; past tense lét; past participle late/lati [latt])(nynorsk)

  1. let
  1. La meg få gjera det. (nynorsk)
    Let me do it.

[edit] Old French

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la

  1. nominative feminine singular of li
  2. oblique feminine singular of li

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

Latin illac.

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[edit] Preposition

la (+accusative)

  1. at

[edit] Sicilian

[edit] Article

la f. sg. (plural li)

  1. the
The Sicilian Definite Article
Masculine Feminine
Singular lu, û la, â
Plural li, î li, î

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

Old Spanish ela, from Latin illa.

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la f. sg.

  1. the

[edit] Pronoun

la

  1. Feminine form of it or that. (May be nominative or accusative)
  2. Impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases: 'it', 'this'.
    Usage:
    • La sabe toda. - 'He/she knows everything (it all)'
    • ¡Donde la viste! - 'Where have you seen this!'
    Examples:

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Alternative spellings

[edit] Verb

la

  1. Past tense of lägga.

[edit] Conjunction

la

  1. Regional, non-standard variant of väl

[edit] Yatzachi Zapotec

[edit] Noun

la

  1. name
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