elle

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
f ella a, l' ella
plural 1st person noi ci noi
2nd person voi vi voi
3rd person m elli li i, l' elli
f elle e, l' elle

References

Danish

Noun

elle c

  1. 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

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)1 		emphatic
reflexive 		relative proximal distal
singular first — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi moi-même —
second — tu te, t’ — — toi toi-même —
third masculine il2 le, l’ lui y en lui lui-même celui celui-ci celui-là
feminine elle la, l’ elle elle-même celle celle-ci celle-là
indeterminate on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça — — — — — — ce ceci cela, ça
reflexive — se, s’5 — — soi soi-même —
plural first — nous nous — — nous nous-mêmes —
second6 — vous vous — — vous vous-mêmes,
vous-même6 		—
third masculine ils7 les leur y en eux7 eux-mêmes7 ceux ceux-ci ceux-là
feminine elles elles elles-mêmes celles celles-ci celles-là

1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d‘, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2 Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6 Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
7 Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛl.le/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlle
  • Hyphenation: èl‧le

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. (dated, literary) 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, elle3, sé
1 Refers predominantly to non-humans.
2 Highly elevated variant of Lei.
3 Archaic.

Further reading

  • elle in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • elle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • elle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or borrowed from 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 plural
nominative elle elles
genitive elles eļļu
dative ellei ellēm
accusative elli elles
instrumental elli ellēm
locative ellē ellēs
vocative elle elles

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[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 (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

 

  • 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 Disjunctive Accusative Dative Comitative
First-person Singular yo mí me conmigo
Plural Masculine1 nosotros nos —
Feminine nosotras
Second-person Singular Tuteo tú tí 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. 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

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔelje/ [ˈʔɛl.jɛ]
  • Rhymes: -elje
  • Syllabification: el‧le

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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