elle
Corsican
Etymology
From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian elle (“they”) and French elles (“they”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛlːe/
- Hyphenation: el‧le
Pronoun
elle f
- they (feminine)
- them (disjunctive)
See also
Nominative | Dative | Accusative | Disjunctive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | 1st person | eiu | mi | mè | |
2nd person | tù | ti | tè | ||
3rd person m | ellu | li | u, l' | ellu | |
3rd person f | ella | a, l' | ella | ||
Plural | 1st person | noi | ci | noi | |
2nd person | voi | vi | voi | ||
3rd person m | elli | li | i, l' | elli | |
3rd person f | elle | e, l' | elle |
References
- “elle” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
- https://gbatti-alinguacorsa.pagesperso-orange.fr
Danish
Noun
elle c
- indefinite plural of el
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛl/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /a/
audio (file) - Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1
From Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
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
- cézigue (argot)
Related terms
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.
Noun
elle m (plural elles)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
Further reading
- “elle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin el (the name of the letter L).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛl.le/
- Rhymes: -ɛlle
- Hyphenation: èl‧le
Noun
elle f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
See also
- (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
From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈel.le/
- Rhymes: -elle
- Hyphenation: él‧le
Pronoun
elle f pl
- (archaic) plural of ella
- Synonyms: esse, loro
Derived terms
- elleno
See also
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
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Etymology
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
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
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
---|---|---|
nominative (nominatīvs) | elle | elles |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | elli | elles |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | elles | eļļu |
dative (datīvs) | ellei | ellēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | elli | ellēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | ellē | ellēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | elle | elles |
Synonyms
- pekle
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Middle English
Noun
elle
- Alternative form of elne (“ell”)
Middle French
Pronoun
elle f
- she
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈeːlle/
Verb
ēlle
- inflection of eallit:
- first-person dual present indicative
- third-person plural past indicative
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)
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References
- “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Pronoun
elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)
- Obsolete spelling of ele
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝe
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎe
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃe
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒe
- Syllabification: e‧lle
Noun
elle f (plural elles)
- Name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter.
- Synonym: doble ele
Pronoun
elle (plural elles)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun.
- 2020, Alex Iantaffi; Meg-John Barker, Raquel García Rojas, transl., 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.
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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
Further reading
- “elle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
Etymology
el + le (from el and ile)
Adverb
elle
- by hand, manually
Verb
elle
- second-person singular imperative of ellemek