ellos

See also: eļļõs and -ellos

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illos (“those ones”). Akin to Spanish ellos and Portuguese eles.

Pronoun

ellos

1. they (third-person plural masculine pronoun)

Synonyms

• els

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illos, from ille.

Pronoun

ellos m pl

1. they (third-person plural masculine pronoun)

Catalan

Etymology

Variant of ells, perhaps produced by influence of Spanish ellos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈe.ʎus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈe.ʎos]

Pronoun

ellos

1. (Northern, Alghero) they (masculine or mixed group)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en, n’	-ne, ’n
	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural.   ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition.   ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈeːllos/

Verb

ēllos

1. third-person singular imperative of eallit

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin illos, from ille.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝos/ [ˈe.ʝos]

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝos/ [ˈe.ʝos] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʎos/ [ˈe.ʎos] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʃos/ [ˈe.ʃos] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʒos/ [ˈe.ʒos] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -eʝos

• Rhymes: -eʝos (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -eʎos (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃos (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒos (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: e‧llos

Pronoun

ellos m pl (dative les)

1. plural of él (“they, them”)

Usage notes

• Used subjectively and after prepositions; can refer to men, masculine nouns, groups of people or nouns of mixed gender, and (rarely) groups of neuter nouns.

Related terms

• él
• ella
• ellas
• ello

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				Nominative	Disjunctive	Dative	Accusative	Comitative
First-person	Singular			yo	mí	me		conmigo
	Plural	Masculine1		nosotros		nos		—
		Feminine		nosotras
Second-person	Singular	Tuteo		tú	ti	te		contigo
		Voseo		vos	—
		Formal2	Masculine1	usted		le, se3	lo
			Feminine				la
	Plural	Familiar4	Masculine1	vosotros		os
			Feminine	vosotras
		Formal/general2	Masculine1	ustedes		les, se3	los
			Feminine				las
Third-person	Singular	Masculine1		él		le, se3	lo
		Feminine		ella			la
		Neuter		ello5			lo
	Plural	Masculine1		ellos		les, se3	los
		Feminine		ellas			las
	Reflexive			—	sí	se		consigo

1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
3. 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).
4. Used primarily in Spain.
5. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

Anagrams

• sello