li

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

From Chinese 里 (lǐ).

[edit] Noun

Singular
li

Plural
li

li (plural li)

  1. A traditional Chinese unit of distance, now standardized to 500 metres.

[edit] Translations
  • Chinese: 里
  • Dutch: li
  • French: li m.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Chinese 市厘 (lí).

[edit] Noun

Singular
li

Plural
li

li (plural li)

  1. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.

[edit] Etymology 3

From Chinese 禮 (lǐ).

[edit] Noun

Singular
li

Plural
li

li (plural li)

  1. (Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

[edit] Etymology 4

From Chinese 鬲 (lì).

[edit] Noun

Singular
li

Plural
li

li (plural li)

  1. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

[edit] Albanian

[edit] Noun

li f.

  1. smallpox.

[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Particle

li (interrogative)

  1. question forming interrogative particle

[edit] Croatian

[edit] Particle

li (interrogative)

  1. question forming interrogative particle

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

li

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronoun

li

  1. Template:personal pronoun he, him.

[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

li m. (plural lis)

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Pronoun

li

  1. he
  2. him
  3. she
  4. her
  5. it

[edit] Ido

[edit] Pronoun

li

  1. they

[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Homophones: lì

[edit] Pronoun

li

  1. them.

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Preposition

li

  1. in:
    li Kurdistanê (in Kurdistan)
  2. li ser: on:
    li ser maseyê (on the table)

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

li

  1. indicates that the next word is a number used as a sumti

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Preposition

li (Pinyin li)

  1. in; inside
    Simplified: 这件医院裡有很多病人。
    Traditional: 這件醫院裡有很多病人。
    zhè jiàn yīyuàn lǐ yǒu hěn duō bìngrén.
    There are many patients in this hospital.

[edit] Pinyin

li (form of li0 or li5)

  1. 哧:
  2. 瑿: a black stone like jade; jet

[edit] Pinyin syllable

li

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, lī, lí, lǐ or lì.

[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.

[edit] Old French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin ille (“‘that’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Article

li

  1. the (masculine nominative singular and plural)

[edit] Inflection

Declension of the definite article li
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
nominative li la 1 li les
oblique le 1 la 1 les les
1 These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non-aspirate h.

[edit] Descendants

  • French: le

[edit] Polish

[edit] Suffix

li

  1. (marks the past tense when added to the end of a verb).

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronoun

li (dative form of ele; form of le)

  1. to them

[edit] Usage notes

This word is used when le (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:

  • îl (the accusative of el, contracted as li-l)
  • îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as li-i)
  • le (the accusative of ele)
  • se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)

[edit] See also

[edit] Serbian

[edit] Particle

li (interrogative)

  1. question forming interrogative particle

[edit] Cyrillic spelling

[edit] Sicilian

[edit] Article

li m., f. pl.

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