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Contents 1 Breton 1.1 Noun 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Inflection 2.2 Verb 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Article 3.3.1 Usage notes 3.4 Pronoun 3.5 References 4 Hungarian 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Adverb 5 Ido 5.1 Article 6 Interlingua 6.1 Article 6.1.1 Usage notes 6.2 Pronoun 7 Irish 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Preposition 7.3 Usage notes 7.4 Alternative forms 8 Italian 8.1 Etymology 1 8.1.1 Article 8.1.2 Pronoun 8.2 Etymology 2 8.2.1 Pronoun 8.3 References 9 Lojban 9.1 Cmavo 10 Mandarin 10.1 Particle 10.2 Pronunciation 10.3 Pinyin 10.4 Pinyin syllable 10.4.1 Usage notes 11 Meriam 11.1 Etymology 11.2 Noun 12 Norwegian 12.1 Verb 12.1.1 Conjugation 13 Old French 13.1 Article 14 Scottish Gaelic 14.1 Pronunciation 14.2 Preposition 14.2.1 Usage notes 14.2.2 Derived terms 15 Slovene 15.1 Adverb 16 Spanish 16.1 Etymology 16.2 Pronoun 16.2.1 Usage notes 16.2.2 See also 17 Swedish 17.1 Pronunciation 17.2 Verb 17.2.1 Derived terms 17.2.2 See also 18 Xhosa 18.1 Pronunciation 18.2 Adjective 18.3 Adjective 18.4 Related terms

[edit] Breton

[edit] Noun

le (plural leou)

1. vow

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Noun

le c. (singular definite leen, plural indefinite leer)

1. scythe (farm tool)

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[edit] Verb

le (imperative le, infinitive at le, present tense ler, past tense lo, past participle har leet)

1. laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Old French lo, from Latin illum, by dropping il- and -m. Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille.^[1]

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• IPA: /lə/

[edit] Article

le m. (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. the

   Le

2. (used before abstract nouns; not translated in English)
3. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.

   Il s’est cassé la jambe — He has broken his leg

4. (before units) a, an

   cinquante kilomètres à l’heure — fifty kilometres an hour

[edit] Usage notes

• le becomes l’ before a vowel or an unaspirated h.

  l’amour — love

  l’homme — the man

• de le is never used: contracted into du.

• à le is never used: contracted into au.

  Il a une cicatrice au visage — He has a scar on the face or He has a scar on his face

[edit] Pronoun

le m. (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. him (direct object)
2. it
3. (used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English)

   Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi — I am small and he is too ("he is it too", i.e., "he is small too")

[edit] References

• Notes:

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

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɛ/
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[edit] Adverb

le

1. down

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Article

le (plural)

1. the (used only when there is no other sign of plurality, for example with nominalized adjectives)

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[edit] Interlingua

[edit] Article

le

1. the

[edit] Usage notes

• de le is contracted into del.
• a le is contracted into al.

[edit] Pronoun

le m. (plural les)

1. him (direct object)

   Io le appella mi amico — I call him my friend.

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [lʲɛ]

[edit] Preposition

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	liom	liomsa
2d person sing.	leat	leatsa
3d sing. masc.	leis	leis-sean
3d sing. fem.	léi	léise
1st person pl.	linn	linne
2d person pl.	libh	libhse
3d person pl.	leo	leosan

le

1. with

[edit] Usage notes

Prefixes h to a following vowel-initial word.

• le héadach – "with clothing"

Used in conjunction with the copula particle is to indicate possession:

• Is liomsa an hata – "The hat is mine; the hat belongs to me"
• is le Cáit an peann luaidhe – "The pencil is Cáit's; the pencil belongs to Cáit"

[edit] Alternative forms

Form used before definite article: leis, as leis an mbuachaill "with the boy", leis na cailíní "with the girls".

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin illas, which is the accusative plural feminine of ille.^[1]

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le f. (plural)

1. the

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le

1. (third person plural feminine) them

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Pronoun

le

1. her, to her

   Le ho detto che la amo — I told her that I love her.

   Le ho dato la lettera — I gave her the letter or I gave the letter to her

2. (usually capitalised as Le to avoid confusion with le meaning "her") (formal) you, to you

   Le ho detto il mio nome — I told you my name

   Le ho dato la lettera — I gave you the letter or I gave the letter to you

[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.

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[edit] Lojban

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le

1. refers to the x1 sumti of the following word and indicates that the thing the speaker talks about in the following word is just called that way by the speaker and is not necessarily really the thing that is usually described by the word

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[edit] Mandarin

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le (Pinyin le)

1. (indicating a new situation)

   hao le. It's O.K. now.

2. (indicating completed action)

   wo zhi qingle yi wei keren. I invited only one guest.

   Zhongguo Sichuan fashengle qianglie dizhen. — A strong earthquake has happened in Sichuan, China.

   (Zhōngguó Sìchuān fāshēngle qiángliè dìzhèn. — 中国四川发生了强烈地震.)

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[edit] Pinyin

le (form of le0 or le5)

1. 餎:
2. 饹:
3. 了: to finish; aspect particle of completed action

   (indicating a new situation) Hǎo le — It’s okay now.

   (indicating completed action) Wǒ zhǐ qǐngle yī wèi kèren — I invited only one guest.

[edit] Pinyin syllable

le

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, lē, lé, or lè.

[edit] Usage notes

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.

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[edit] Meriam

[edit] Etymology

Rotuman

[edit] Noun

le

1. person

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Verb

le

1. To laugh.

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[edit] Old French

[edit] Article

le

1. oblique masculine singular of li

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lʲɛ/

[edit] Preposition

le (adds h to vowels)

1. with
2. by

[edit] Usage notes

• This form is used before nouns without the definite article; before the definite article the form leis is used.

[edit] Derived terms

• The following prepositional pronouns:

Combining pronoun	Prepositional pronoun	Prepositional pronoun (emphatic)
mi	leam	leamsa
tu	leat	leatsa
e	leis	leis-san
i	leatha	leathase
sinn	leinn	leinne
sibh	leibh	leibhse
iad	leotha	leothasan

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Adverb

le

1. only

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

Latin ille.

[edit] Pronoun

le

1. To him, for him (dative form of él)

   Mi mamá va a escribirle una carta a mi hermano. — My mom is going to write a letter to my brother.

2. To her, for her (dative form of ella)

   Le dio un beso a Ana. — He gave Ana a kiss.

3. To you, for you (dative form of usted, ello, lo)

   ¿A usted le gustan los caballos? — Do you like horses?

[edit] Usage notes

Though le is usually the indirect object form of the direct object pronouns lo/la, it is often used as a direct object as well...e.g., «yo le creo» (I believe him/her); «le gusta...» (he/she likes...). Note that when a sentence contains a noun that is an indirect object, a redundant indirect object le (or its plural form les) is also required; for example «yo le daré el libro a Jorge» (literally, "I will give him the book to Jorge"), where him/le corresponds to Jorge. This apparent redundancy, while seemingly pointless, is obligatory. Both of the object pronouns le and les become se when followed by the direct object lo/la/los/las; hence, «yo se lo daré» (I will give it/them to him/her/them) rather than «yo le/les lo daré», which would be grammatically incorrect.

[edit] See also

• Spanish pronouns

First person: singular: yo, mí, me plural: nosotros, nosotras, nos Second person: tuteo: tú, ti, te voseo: vos, te formal: usted, ustedes, le, les familiar plural: vosotros, vosotras, ustedes, os, les

Third person: masculine: él, ellos, lo, le, los, les feminine: ella, ellas, la, le, las, les neuter: lo, los, ello, ellos, le, les Demonstrative: este, esta, esto, estos, estas ese, esa, eso, esos, esas aquel, aquella, aquello, aquellos, aquellas

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Verb

Conjugations of le
Infinitive	le
Present tense	ler
Past tense	log
Supine	lett
Imperative	le
Present participle	leende
Past participle	-

le

1. To smile.

[edit] Derived terms

• småle

[edit] See also

• leende

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[edit] Xhosa

[edit] Pronunciation

• /lɛ/

[edit] Adjective

le (Class iii/iv)

1. these

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le (Class ix/x)

1. this

[edit] Related terms

• leyo
• leyaya