ese

See also: Ese, ESE, Eşe, ése, esé, and -ese

§English

§Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), Old French aise.

§Noun

ese

1. (obsolete) ease; pleasure
   • 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale:

     So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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§Estonian

§Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century, but compare Finnish esine.

§Noun

ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item, that

§Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

§See also

• asi
• eesmärk
• objekt
• sihitis

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§Latin

§Participle

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

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§Spanish

§Etymology 1

§Noun

ese f (plural eses)

1. Name of the letter s.

§Etymology 2

From Latin ipse.

§Adjective

ese m (feminine esa, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) that

§Interjection

ese

1. (Mexico, informal) hello

§Pronoun

ese m (feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése

§Usage notes

• the unaccented form can function as a pronoun if there is no ambiguity as to it being a pronoun in its context

§See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masc.		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		fem.		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal2		usted	le	lo/la	usted
	plural	familiar3	masc	vosotros	os		vosotros
			fem.	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general2		ustedes	les	los/las	ustedes
third person	singular	masc.		él	le	lo	él
		fem.		ella		la	ella
		neut.		ello		lo/la4	ello
	plural	masc.		ellos	les	los	ellos
		fem.		ellas		las	ellas
	sing. & pl.	reflexive		—	se		sí1

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.
¹ Not used after con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
² Use the third-person reflexive pronouns when appropriate
³ Used only in Spain
⁴ Depending on the implicit gender of the subject being referred to