ella
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
ella
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
ella
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ella (plural elles)
Declension
Corsican
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ella f
See also
References
- “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Faroese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Conjunction
ella
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elliga. Compare ellegar.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ella
Synonyms
Conjunction
ella
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)
Usage notes
The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favour of the oblique form lei.
See also
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
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Singular | third | m | esso1, egli, elli3 | si, s' | lo, l' | gli | vi, v' | ne, n' | esso, sé |
f | essa, ella, Ella2 | la, l' | le, ella3 | essa, sé | |||||
Plural | third | m | essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 | si, s' | li | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | essi, sé |
f | esse, elle3, elleno3 | le | esse, elle,3 sé | ||||||
1 | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | ||||||||
2 | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | ||||||||
3 | Archaic. |
Anagrams
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.
Pronunciation
Verb
·ella
- unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs
Derived terms
It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·ella (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | ·n-ella |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Portuguese
Pronoun
ella f
Sotho
Verb
ella
- to move towards
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Pronoun
ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural los)
- she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
- it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Related terms
See also
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
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