elle
Corsican
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian elle (“they”) and French elles (“they”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]elle f
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “elle” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210928184944/https://gbatti-alinguacorsa.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]elle c
- indefinite plural of el
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɛl/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /a/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
[edit]elle f (third-person singular, plural elles, accusative la, dative lui, emphatic elle, possessive determiner son)
- she
- Je crois qu’elle est partie.
- I think she left.
- it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
- Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.
- That's my car. It is five years old.
- disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
- C’est à elle.
- It's hers.
Synonyms
[edit]- cézigue (argot)
Related terms
[edit]Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]elle m (plural elles)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
Further reading
[edit]- “elle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin el (the name of the letter L).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]elle f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta
Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]elle f pl
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.[1]
Noun
[edit]elle f (5th declension)
- (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
- (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)
- nonākt ellē ― to end up in hell
- elles krāsns ― the furnace of hell
- elles mocības ― the torments of hell
- (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
- elles karstums ― infernal heat
- elles troksnis ― infernal noise
- elles darbs ― infernal, terrible, toughwork
- elles mokas ― infernal, horrible suffering
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]elle
- Alternative form of elne (“ell”)
Middle French
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]elle f
Northern Sami
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ēlle
- inflection of eallit:
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)
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References
[edit]- “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: e‧lle
Noun
[edit]elle f (plural elles)
Pronoun
[edit]elle gender-neutral (plural elles)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun
- elle es muy alte
- they are very tall
- 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, translated by Raquel García Rojas, Cómo entender tu género: una guía práctica para explorar quién eres, Dos Bigotes, →ISBN:
- Meg-John ha notado que rara vez corrige a alguien si esa persona utiliza los pronombres incorrectos para referirse a elle en la presentación al comienzo de una conferencia.
- Meg-John has noticed that they rarely correct someone if that person uses the wrong pronouns to refer to them in the presentation at the beginning of a lecture.
See also
[edit]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
Further reading
[edit]- “elle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔelje/ [ˈʔɛl.jɛ]
- Rhymes: -elje
- Syllabification: el‧le
Noun
[edit]elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)
- (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario
See also
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]elle
Verb
[edit]elle
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eʝe
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eʎe
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