elle

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

elle - Corsican

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛlːe/
  • Hyphenation: el‧le

Pronoun

elle f

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

elle - Danish

Noun

elle c

  1. indefinite plural of el

elle - French

Pronunciation

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

Number Person Gender Nominative (subject) Accusative (direct complement) Dative (indirect complement) Locative (at) Genitive (of) Disjunctive (tonic)
SingularFirst je, j’ me, m’ moi
Second tu te, t’ toi
ThirdMasculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1
Reflexive se, s’4 soi4
PluralFirst nous nous nous
Second vous2 vous2,3 vous2
ThirdMasculine 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)

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

elle - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛl.le/
  • Hyphenation: èl‧le

Noun

elle f (invariable)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈel.le/
  • Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f pl

  1. (archaic) plural of ella

Derived terms

elle - Latvian

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 ellēto end up in hell
    • elles krāsnsthe furnace of hell
    • elles mocībasthe torments of hell
  3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
    • elles karstumsinfernal heat
    • elles troksnisinfernal noise
    • elles darbsinfernal, terrible, toughwork
    • elles mokasinfernal, 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

elle - Middle English

Noun

elle

  1. Alternative form of elne (ell)

elle - Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

  1. she

elle - Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈeːlle/

Verb

ēlle

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

elle - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)

elle - Portuguese

Pronoun

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

  1. Obsolete spelling of ele

elle - Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA: /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
 
  • Syllabification: e‧lle

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

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

Pronoun

elle (plural elles)

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun.

elle - Tagalog

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: el‧le
  • IPA: /ˈʔelje/, [ˈʔɛl.jɛ]

Noun

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

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

elle - Turkish

Adverb

elle

  1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

  1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek
Meaning and Definition of elle
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