le

See also: Variations of "le"

le - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/

Article

le

  1. (informal, humorous) The.

Usage notes

Marks the speaker as pretending to be stereotypically French. For additional jocular effect, may be used where neither English nor French would place a definite article.


Preposition

le

  1. (obsolete) Next to, near (still used in some place names).
    • Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road.

Anagrams

le - Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈle/, [ˈlɛ]

Verb

  1. (transitive) have

Conjugation

    Conjugation of le (irregular)

Derived terms

le - Albanian

Verb

le (first-person singular past tense láshë, participle lënë)

  1. second-person singular aorist active indicative of
  2. second-person singular aorist passive indicative of lihem

Particle

le (+)

  1. (jussive) let
    • Jussive modal particle used before verbs. A gentle way to express orders, instructions or to ask for approval/permission. Jussive construction:
    • Examples: third-person singular present active jussive of marr:
      • le (let) + + marrë (take)
      • le të marrëlet it take
    • third-person singular present passive jussive of merrem:
      • le (let) + + merret (deal (with))
      • le të merretlet it deal (with)
    • third-person singular present active jussive of shkoj:
      • le (let) + + shkojë (go)
      • le të shkojëlet him go
    • third-person plural present active jussive of shkoj:
      • le (let) + + shkojnë (go)
      • le të shkojnëlet them go
    • third-person singular present active jussive of flas:
      • le (let) + + flasë (talk; speak)
      • le të flasëlet him talk
    • third-person plural present active jussive of flas:
      • le (let) + + flasin (talk; speak)
      • le të flasinlet them talk
    • (*) Irregular verb:
      • indicative/present → subjunctive/present
      • ësh (“is”) → je (“be”)
    • Example: third-person singular present active jussive of jam:
      • le (let) + (it) + jetë (be)
      • lejetëlet it be
  2. (subjunctive) + (that) → subjunctive: not only that; if only; would that
    • Le që...Not only that...
  3. (Gheg, subjunctive) → mostly + se (that) instead of (id): not only that; if only; would that
    • Le se...Not only that...

le - Aragonese

Pronoun

le

  1. (to) him (indirect object)

Synonyms

le - Bourguignon

Alternative forms

Article

le (alternative form lou, feminine lai, plural les)

  1. the

le - Breton

Noun

le ? (plural leou)

  1. vow

le - Corsican

Article

le

  1. Archaic form of e.

Pronoun

le

  1. Archaic form of e.

le - Dalmatian

Article

le f pl

  1. the

le - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [leˀ]

Noun

le c (singular definite leen, plural indefinite leer)

  1. scythe (farm tool)

Inflection

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative le leen leer leerne
genitive les leens leers leernes

Verb

le (imperative le, present ler, past lo, past participle leet or let)

  1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

Conjugation

present past
simple ler lo
perfect har leet or let havde leet or let
passive les
participle leende leet or let
imperative le
infinitive le
auxiliary verb have
gerund leen

le - Fala

Pronoun

le

  1. Third person dative pronoun; to him, to her, to it, to them

Usage notes

  • Takes the form -li when suffixed to an impersonal verb form.

le - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lə/
  • (Parisian) IPA: /lø/
  • (before a word starting with a vowel) IPA: /l‿/
  • (Louisiana) IPA: /ɛl/

Article

le m (feminine la, neuter lea, masculine and feminine plural les)

  1. the (definite article)
    • Le lait du matin.The milk of the morning.
  2. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
  3. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
    • Il s’est cassé la jambe.He has broken his leg.
  4. (before units) a, an
    • Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure.fifty kilometres an hour

Usage notes

  • le becomes l’ before a vowel or an unaspirated h.
    • l’amourlove
    • l’hommethe man
  • de le is never used: contracted into du.
  • à le is never used: contracted into au.
    • Il a une cicatrice au visage.He has a scar on the face. / He has a scar on his face.
  • However, de le and à le become de l' and à l' respectively in front of a vowel or an unaspirated h.

Pronoun

le m (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

  1. (direct object) him, it
    • Où est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas.
      • Where is Malik? I don't see him.
    • Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture.
      • My bag? I'm going to put it in the car.
  2. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
    • Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi.I am small and he is too (literally, “... and he is it too”)
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.

le - Friulian

Pronoun

le (third person feminine direct object)

  1. her

le - Galician

Verb

le

  1. inflection of ler:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

le - Garifuna

Article

le

  1. masculine definite article

Antonyms

le - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈlɛ]

Adverb

le (comparative lejjebb)

  1. down

Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with le-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (they could have seen it, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see le-; for an overview, Hungarian verbal prefixes.

Anagrams

le - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/, /lɛ/

Article

le (plural)

  1. the (used only when there is no other sign of plurality, for example with nominalized adjectives)
    • Yen pomi, prenez le bona e lasez le mala.
      • Here's apples, take the good ones and leave the bad ones.

Noun

le (plural le-i)

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

le - Interlingua

Article

le

  1. the

Usage notes

  • de le is contracted into del.
  • a le is contracted into al.

Pronoun

le m (plural les)

  1. him (direct object)
    • Io le appella mi amico — I call him my friend.

le - Irish

Alternative forms

  • (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lʲɛ/

Preposition

le (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)

  1. with
    • le héadachwith clothing
  2. used in conjunction with the copula particle is to indicate possession
    • Is liomsa an hataThe hat is mine; the hat belongs to me
    • Is le Cáit an peann luaidhe.The pencil is Cáit’s; the pencil belongs to Cáit.
  3. to (indicating purpose; in this sense triggering eclipsis of ithe (eating) and ól (drinking))
    • rud le n-ithesomething to eat
    • oiriúnach le n-ólfit to drink
    • ró-the le n-óltoo hot to drink
  4. to (after a verb of speaking)
  5. in order to
    • le rud a dhéanamhin order to do a thing
    • Synonyms: chun, d'fhonn

Inflection

Person Normal Emphatic
1st person sing. liom liomsa
2d person sing. leat leatsa
3d sing. masc. leis leis-sean
3d sing. fem. léi léise
1st person pl. linn linne
2d person pl. libh libhse
3d person pl. leo leosan

Derived terms

See Irish phrasal verbs with particle (le)

le - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/
  • Hyphenation: le

Article

le f pl (singular la)

  1. the

Usage notes

  • Contrary to la, le does not elide before words that begin with a vowel:
    • le amichethe girlfriends

Pronoun

le f pl (masculine li, singular la)

  1. (accusative) them (third-person plural feminine)
    • Le ho viste.I saw them.

Usage notes

  • Never elides.
  • Becomes glie when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Alternative forms


Pronoun

le f (plural gli)

  1. (dative) her, to her
    • Synonym: (informal) gli
    • Le ho detto che la amo.I told her that I love her.
    • Le ho dato la lettera.I gave her the letter.
  2. (dative) you, to you (term of respect)
    • Non le ho detto il mio nome.I didn't tell you my name.
    • Le ho dato la lettera.I gave you the letter.

Usage notes

  • In formal writing, when le is used as term of respect it is usually capitalised/capitalized as Le to avoid confusion with le (her).
  • In informal contexts often replaced with gli, especially in spoken language.
  • Becomes glie when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
  • Never elides.

Alternative forms


Anagrams

le - Japanese

Romanization

le

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れ゚
  2. Rōmaji transcription of レ゚

le - Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛː/

Adverb

le

  1. no
    • Synonym: leqq (colloquial)

le - Mandarin

Romanization

le (le5le0, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

le

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

le - Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lø, le/

Article

le

  1. (definite) the

le - Meriam

Noun

le

  1. person

le - Middle French

Article

le m (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

  1. the

Descendants

  • French: le

le - Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/

Pronoun

le

  1. Alternative form of 'e

Coordinate terms

NumberPersonNominativeAccusativeDativeReflexivePossessivePrepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

le - Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

le (indeclinable)

  1. lee or leeward (side)

Noun

le n

  1. lee (sheltered or leeward side)
  2. shelter

Verb

le (imperative le, present tense ler, passive -, simple past lo, past participle ledd, present participle leende)

  1. to laugh

le - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /leː/

Alternative forms

Verb

le (present tense ler, past tense lo, supine ledd or lett, past participle ledd, present participle leande, imperative le)

  1. (intransitive) to laugh

Derived terms


Noun

le n (definite singular leet, indefinite plural le, definite plural lea)

  1. lee (sheltered or leeward side)
  2. shelter

Adjective

le (indeclinable)

  1. lee or leeward (side)

Verb

le

  1. imperative of lea

Anagrams

le - Old French

Alternative forms

  • lo (9th century in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia and 10th century in La Vie de Saint Léger)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lə/

Article

le

  1. the (masculine singular oblique definite article)
  2. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) the (feminine singular definite article)

Inflection

Declension of the definite article le
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
nominative li la, le 1 li les
oblique le 1 la 1 les les
1 These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non-aspirate h.

Pronoun

le

  1. it (masculine singular object pronoun)

Descendants

  • Middle French: le
    • French: le

le - Old Polish

Conjunction

le

  1. but
  2. only
conjunction

Descendants

le - Phalura

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le, ɽe/

Determiner

le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)

  1. that, this (agr: dist fem / dist non-nom masc)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le, ɽe/

Determiner

le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)

  1. those, these (agr: dist)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le, ɽe/

Pronoun

le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)

  1. that one
  2. it
  3. she (dist fem nom)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le, ɽe/

Pronoun

le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)

  1. those ones
  2. these ones
  3. they (dist nom)

le - Pnar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/

Numeral

le

  1. (cardinal number) three

le - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/

Pronoun

le m (unstressed dative form of ei)

  1. (indirect object, third-person masculine plural) to them (all-male or mixed group)

Pronoun

le f (unstressed dative form of ele)

  1. (indirect object, third-person feminine plural) to them (all-female group)

Pronoun

le m (unstressed accusative form of ele)

  1. (direct object, third-person feminine plural) them (all-female group)
  • lor (stressed dative of ei and ele)
  • ele (stressed accusative of ele)
  • îl (unstressed dative of el (singular))
  • îi (unstressed dative of ea (singular) and unstressed accusative of ei (masculine))
  • o (unstressed accusative of ea (singular))

le - Samoan

Article

le

  1. the (the definite article)

Usage notes

Only in the singular. Sometimes used where the indefinite article would be used in English.

le - Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/
  • Hyphenation: le

Preposition

le (+ dative)

  1. with
  2. by
  3. down
    • Thuit e leis a' chreig.He fell down the rock.
    • deòir a' ruith leis a h-aodanntears running down her face

Usage notes

  • This form is used before nouns without the definite article; before the definite article the form leis is used.
  • When referring to being with people, còmhla ri is preferred to le by many speakers.

Inflection

Personal inflection of le
Singular Plural
First person lemL lerN
Second person ledL lurN
Third person m le aL lenN, lemN 1)
Third person f le aH
L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; N Triggers eclipsis; 1) Used before b-, f-, m- or p-

le - Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

le (Cyrillic spelling ле)

  1. (archaic) only

le - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛ́/

Adverb

  1. only, merely, just

le - Southern Ndebele

Pronoun

le

  1. these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.

Pronoun

le

  1. this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.

le - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /le/ [le]
  • Syllabification: le

Pronoun

le

  1. to him, for him; dative of él
    • Mi mamá va a escribirle una carta.
      • My mom is going to write him a letter.
  2. to her, for her; dative of ella
    • Le dio un beso a Ana.
      • He gave Ana a kiss.
  3. to it, for it; dative of ello
    • ¡Ponle esfuerzo!
      • Put some effort into it!
  4. to you, for you (formal); dative of usted
    • ¿A usted le gustan los caballos?
      • Do you like horses?
  5. (gender-neutral, neologism) to them, for them (singular); dative of elle
    • Le diré que te llame.
      • I will tell them to call you.

Usage notes

  • Though le is usually the indirect object form of the direct object pronouns lo/la, it is often used in Spain as a direct object as well...e.g., yo le amo (I love him). This phenomenon is known as leísmo.
  • Note that when a sentence contains a noun that is an indirect object, a redundant indirect object le (or its plural form les) is also required; for example yo le daré el libro a Jorge (literally I will give him the book to Jorge), where him/le corresponds to Jorge. This type of pronoun is obligatory. Both of the object pronouns le and les become se when followed by the direct object lo/la/los/las; hence, yo se lo daré (I will give it to him/her/them) rather than *yo le/les lo daré.

le - Swahili

Adjective

-le (declinable)

  1. that (distal demonstrative adjective)

Inflection

Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) yule wale
m-mi class(III/IV) ule ile
ji-ma class(V/VI) lile yale
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) kile vile
n class(IX/X) ile zile
u class(XI) ule see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) pale
ku class(XVII) kule
mu class(XVIII) mle

le - Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /leː/

Verb

le (present ler, preterite log, supine lett, imperative le)

  1. to smile
    • Hon log brettShe smiled broadly
  2. (obsolete) to laugh

Conjugation

Active Passive
Infinitive le les
Supine lett letts
Imperative le
Imper. plural1 len
Present Past Present Past
Indicative ler log les logs
Ind. plural1 le logo les logos
Subjunctive2 le loge les loges
Participles
Present participle leende
Past participle
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

Anagrams

le - Tarantino

Alternative forms

Article

le m pl or f pl

  1. the

le - Turkish

Noun

le

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

le - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cây) le

  1. a plant in the rice family, which grows in forests and has a shape similar to bamboo

Verb

le

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) Alternative form of (to loll (tongue); to put out)

Adverb

le

  1. (rare) Alternative form of (very)

Conjunction

le

  1. (archaic) but; however

Derived terms

Derived terms

le - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /leː/

Noun

le

  1. Soft mutation of lle.

Adverb

le

  1. (South Wales, colloquial) where
    • Le ma'r tŷ bach?
      • Where's the loo?

Synonyms

  • ble
  • (North Wales, colloquial) lle

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
lle le unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

le - Xhosa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [lé]

Pronoun

  1. these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [lé]

Pronoun

  1. this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.

le - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (low-tone): IPA: /lè/
  • (mid-tone): IPA: /lē/
  • (high-tone): IPA: /lé/

Verb

  1. (auxiliary, defective) to be able, can, to be possible
    • Ó gbọ́ Yorùbá.She can understand Yoruba.

Derived terms


Verb

le

  1. to be hard in texture, to be difficult
    • Iṣẹ́ náà le bí ojú ẹja.The work is as hard as a fish's eye.
  2. (idiomatic) to be healthy, to be in good health
    • Synonym:
    • ṣe ará le o?Are you in good health?

Derived terms

  • eré-ìmárale (exercise)
  • kára ó le (A Yoruba greeting meaning, may you always be in good health!)
  • líle (to be hard)

Verb

le

  1. to have a strong taste
    • Ọtí yìí le.This beer is strong.

Derived terms


Verb

le

  1. to have an erection (of the penis)

Derived terms


Verb

  1. (transitive) to exceed in number
  2. to yield interest

Derived terms


Verb

  1. (intransitive) to appear distinctly

Derived terms

  • Alébíoṣù (A Yoruba nickname meaning, "One that appears very distinctly like the moon.")
  • léfòó

Preposition

  1. on, on top of, after
    • Wọ́n bí Àlàbá Ìdòwú.Alaba was born right after Idowu.

Usage notes

When a word is homophonous with the verb 'lé'; it always occurs in a non-V1 position.

Derived terms

  • gbẹ́kẹ̀lé (to trust)

Verb

  1. (transitive) to pursue, to chase
    • Wọ́n e nílèékulèé, òun náà sàsàákúsàá.They pursued him relentlessly, and he also ran relentlessly.

Derived terms


Verb

  1. (transitive) to become swollen

Derived terms

le - Zou

Conjunction

le

  1. and

le - Zulu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈlé/

Pronoun

le

  1. these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

Stem -lé
Full form
Locative kule

Pronoun

le

  1. this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

Stem -lé
Full form
Locative kule
Meaning and Definition of le
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