elle

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See also: -elle, Elle, ellē, êlle, and élle

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

  1. they (feminine)
  2. them (disjunctive)

See also

Corsican personal pronouns
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

Danish

Noun

elle c

  1. indefinite plural of el

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited 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)

  1. she
    Je crois qu’elle est partie.
    I think she left.
  2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
    Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.
    That's my car. It is five years old.
  3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
    C’est à elle.
    It's hers.
Synonyms
French personal pronouns
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

Noun

elle m (plural elles)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

Noun

elle f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
See also

Etymology 2

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈel.le/
  • Rhymes: -elle
  • Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f pl

  1. (archaic) plural of ella
    Synonyms: esse, loro
Derived terms

See also

Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
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

 elle on Latvian Wikipedia
Elle

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)

  1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
  2. (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
  3. (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

Declension of elle (5th 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

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

elle

  1. Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

  1. she

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈeːlle/

Verb

ēlle

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. 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

Portuguese

Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of ele.

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe]

 

  • Syllabification: e‧lle

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

  1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter
    Synonym: doble ele

Pronoun

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)

  1. (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

Spanish personal pronouns
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
  1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
  2. 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.
  3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
  4. 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)
  5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
  6. Used primarily in Spain
  7. Used only in rare circumstances

Further reading

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.

Pronunciation

Noun

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

  1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario

See also

Turkish

Etymology

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

Adverb

elle

  1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

  1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek
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