elle
elle - Corsican
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛlːe/
- Hyphenation: el‧le
Pronoun
elle f
elle - Danish
Noun
elle c
- indefinite plural of el
elle - French
Pronunciation
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.
elle - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛl.le/
- Hyphenation: èl‧le
Noun
elle f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈel.le/
- Hyphenation: él‧le
Pronoun
elle f pl
Derived terms
elle - Latvian
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
Synonyms
elle - Middle English
Noun
elle
- Alternative form of elne (“ell”)
elle - Middle French
Pronoun
elle f
elle - Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈeːlle/
Verb
ēlle
- inflection of eallit:
- first-person dual present indicative
- 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)
- Obsolete spelling of ele
elle - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
- IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
- IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
- IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
- IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe]
- Syllabification: e‧lle
Noun
elle f (plural elles)
Pronoun
elle (plural elles)
- (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)
elle - Turkish
Adverb
elle
Verb
elle
- second-person singular imperative of ellemek