ils
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See also: ILS
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin illos, used in place of the missing third-person pronoun, from Latin illos, accusative plural of ille.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ils
- They.
Usage notes[edit]
Ils is used for a group with at least one masculine noun in (even if there is only one masculine noun and a thousand feminine nouns in the group). If the group referred to contains only feminine nouns, elles is to be used.
Related terms[edit]
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | 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 | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
- “ils” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
ils
- indefinite genitive singular of il
