le
le - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
Article
le
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.
Related terms
Preposition
le
Anagrams
le - Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈle/, [ˈlɛ]
Verb
lé
- (transitive) have
Conjugation
Conjugation of le (irregular) | |||||||||
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1st singular | 2nd singular | 3rd singular | 1st plural | 2nd plural | 3rd plural | ||||
m | f | ||||||||
present indicative I | V-affirmative | liyóh | litóh | léh | léh | linóh | litoonúh | loonúh | |
N-affirmative | liyó | litó | lé | lé | linó | litón | lón | ||
negative | máliyo, máyyu | málito, mántu | máli | máli | málino, mánnu | máliton | málon | ||
present indicative II | affirmative present indicative I + imperfective of én | ||||||||
past indicative I | lúk + perfective of én | ||||||||
past indicative II | lúk + perfective of sugé | ||||||||
present potential | affirmative | liyóm takkéh | litóm takkéh | lém takkéh | lém takkéh | linóm takkéh | litoonúm takkéh | loonúm takkéh | |
past conditional | affirmative | lúk + past conditional of sugé | |||||||
-h converb | -k converb | -in(n)uh converb | infinitive | ||||||
líh | lúk | línnuh | líyya |
Derived terms
le - Albanian
Verb
le (first-person singular past tense láshë, participle lënë)
Particle
le (+)
- (jussive) let
- Jussive modal particle used before verbs. A gentle way to express orders, instructions or to ask for approval/permission. Jussive construction:
- 1. jussive particle → le (“let”)
- 2. + subjunctive particle → të (“it”)
- 3. + → subjunctive verb form (present, imperfect, perfect or past perfect). See also (*) for irregular verbs.
- Examples: third-person singular present active jussive of marr:
- third-person singular present passive jussive of merrem:
- third-person singular present active jussive of shkoj:
- third-person plural present active jussive of shkoj:
- third-person singular present active jussive of flas:
- third-person plural present active jussive of flas:
- (*) Irregular verb:
- Example: third-person singular present active jussive of jam:
- Jussive modal particle used before verbs. A gentle way to express orders, instructions or to ask for approval/permission. Jussive construction:
- (subjunctive) + që (“that”) → subjunctive: not only that; if only; would that
- Le që... ― Not only that...
- (Gheg, subjunctive) → mostly + se (“that”) instead of që (“id”): not only that; if only; would that
- Le se... ― Not only that...
le - Aragonese
Pronoun
le
- (to) him (indirect object)
Synonyms
le - Bourguignon
Alternative forms
Article
le - Breton
Noun
le ? (plural leou)
le - Corsican
Article
le
- Archaic form of e.
Pronoun
le
- Archaic form of e.
le - Dalmatian
Article
le f pl
Related terms
le - Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA: [leˀ]
Noun
le c (singular definite leen, plural indefinite leer)
- scythe (farm tool)
Inflection
Verb
le (imperative le, present ler, past lo, past participle leet or let)
- to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)
Conjugation
le - Fala
Pronoun
le
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)
- the (definite article)
- Le lait du matin. ― The milk of the morning.
- Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
- L'amour est aveugle.
- (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
- Il s’est cassé la jambe. ― He has broken his leg.
- (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’amour ― love
- l’homme ― the 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)
- (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.
- 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”)
Related terms
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
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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.
le - Friulian
Pronoun
le (third person feminine direct object)
Related terms
le - Galician
Verb
le
- inflection of ler:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
le - Garifuna
Article
le
- masculine definite article
- Mutu le ― The man
Antonyms
le - Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlɛ]
Adverb
le (comparative lejjebb)
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)
- 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)
le - Interlingua
Article
le
Usage notes
Pronoun
le m (plural les)
- him (direct object)
- Io le appella mi amico — I call him my friend.
le - Irish
Alternative forms
- lé (superseded)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lʲɛ/
Preposition
le (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)
- with
- le héadach ― with clothing
- used in conjunction with the copula particle is to indicate possession
- Is liomsa an hata ― The hat is mine; the hat belongs to me
- Is le Cáit an peann luaidhe. ― The pencil is Cáit’s; the pencil belongs to Cáit.
- to (indicating purpose; in this sense triggering eclipsis of ithe (“eating”) and ól (“drinking”))
- rud le n-ithe ― something to eat
- oiriúnach le n-ól ― fit to drink
- ró-the le n-ól ― too hot to drink
- to (after a verb of speaking)
- in order to
Inflection
Derived terms
See Irish phrasal verbs with particle (le)
le - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
- Hyphenation: le
Article
le f pl (singular la)
Usage notes
Pronoun
le f pl (masculine li, singular la)
- (accusative) them (third-person plural feminine)
- Le ho viste. ― I saw them.
Usage notes
Alternative forms
- -le (enclitic)
Pronoun
le f (plural gli)
- (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.
- (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
le - Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛː/
Adverb
le
Related terms
le - Mandarin
Romanization
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 了
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餎/饹
le
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
- (definite) the
le - Meriam
Noun
le
le - Middle French
Article
le m (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)
Descendants
- French: le
le - Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
Pronoun
le
- Alternative form of 'e
Coordinate terms
Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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)
Noun
le n
Verb
le (imperative le, present tense ler, passive -, simple past lo, past participle ledd, present participle leende)
- 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)
- (intransitive) to laugh
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
le n (definite singular leet, indefinite plural le, definite plural lea)
Adjective
le (indeclinable)
Verb
le
- 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
- the (masculine singular oblique definite article)
- (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) the (feminine singular definite article)
Inflection
Pronoun
le
- it (masculine singular object pronoun)
Descendants
le - Old Polish
Conjunction
le
Related terms
Descendants
- Polish: byle
le - Phalura
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le, ɽe/
Determiner
le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)
- that, this (agr: dist fem / dist non-nom masc)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le, ɽe/
Determiner
le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)
- those, these (agr: dist)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le, ɽe/
Pronoun
le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)
- that one
- it
- she (dist fem nom)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le, ɽe/
Pronoun
le (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ)
- those ones
- these ones
- they (dist nom)
le - Pnar
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
Numeral
le
le - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
Pronoun
le m (unstressed dative form of ei)
- (indirect object, third-person masculine plural) to them (all-male or mixed group)
Pronoun
le f (unstressed dative form of ele)
- (indirect object, third-person feminine plural) to them (all-female group)
Pronoun
le m (unstressed accusative form of ele)
- (direct object, third-person feminine plural) them (all-female group)
Related terms
le - Samoan
Article
le
- 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)
- with
- by
- down
- Thuit e leis a' chreig. ― He fell down the rock.
- deòir a' ruith leis a h-aodann ― tears running down her face
Usage notes
Inflection
Personal inflection of le | |||||||||
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Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | leam | leamsa | ||||||
2nd | leat | leatsa | |||||||
3rd m | leis | leis-san | |||||||
3rd f | leatha | leathase | |||||||
Plural | 1st | leinn | leinne | ||||||
2nd | leibh | leibhse | |||||||
3rd | leotha | leothasan |
le - Serbo-Croatian
Adverb
le (Cyrillic spelling ле)
- (archaic) only
Related terms
le - Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛ́/
Adverb
lȅ
le - Southern Ndebele
Pronoun
le
- these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.
Pronoun
le
- this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.
le - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/ [le]
- Syllabification: le
Pronoun
le
- to him, for him; dative of él
- Mi mamá va a escribirle una carta.
- My mom is going to write him a letter.
- to her, for her; dative of ella
- Le dio un beso a Ana.
- He gave Ana a kiss.
- to it, for it; dative of ello
- ¡Ponle esfuerzo!
- Put some effort into it!
- to you, for you (formal); dative of usted
- ¿A usted le gustan los caballos?
- Do you like horses?
- (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)
- that (distal demonstrative adjective)
Inflection
le - Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /leː/
Verb
le (present ler, preterite log, supine lett, imperative le)
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
Related terms
Anagrams
le - Tarantino
Alternative forms
Article
le m pl or f pl
le - Turkish
Noun
le
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
le - Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA: [lɛ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA: [lɛ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [lɛ˧˧]
Noun
(classifier cây) le
Verb
le
Adverb
le
Conjunction
le
Derived terms
le - Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA: /leː/
Noun
le
- Soft mutation of lle.
Adverb
le
- (South Wales, colloquial) where
- Le ma'r tŷ bach?
- Where's the loo?
Synonyms
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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
lé
- these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [lé]
Pronoun
lé
- this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.
le - Yoruba
Pronunciation
- (low-tone): IPA: /lè/
- (mid-tone): IPA: /lē/
- (high-tone): IPA: /lé/
Verb
lè
- (auxiliary, defective) to be able, can, to be possible
- Ó lè gbọ́ Yorùbá. ― She can understand Yoruba.
Derived terms
Verb
le
- to be hard in texture, to be difficult
- Iṣẹ́ náà le bí ojú ẹja. ― The work is as hard as a fish's eye.
- (idiomatic) to be healthy, to be in good health
- Synonym: yá
- ṣe ará le o? ― Are you in good health?
Derived terms
Verb
le
Derived terms
Verb
le
Derived terms
Verb
lé
Derived terms
Verb
lé
- (intransitive) to appear distinctly
Derived terms
- Alébíoṣù (“A Yoruba nickname meaning, "One that appears very distinctly like the moon."”)
- léfòó
Preposition
lé
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
lé
- (transitive) to pursue, to chase
- Wọ́n lé e nílèékulèé, òun náà sàsàákúsàá. ― They pursued him relentlessly, and he also ran relentlessly.
Derived terms
Verb
lé
Derived terms
le - Zou
Conjunction
le
le - Zulu
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlé/
Pronoun
le
- these; class 4 proximal demonstrative.
Inflection
Stem -lé | ||
---|---|---|
Full form | lé | |
Locative | kule | |
Full form | lé | |
Locative | kule | |
Copulative | yile | |
Possessive forms | ||
Modifier | Substantive | |
Class 1 | wale | owale |
Class 2 | bale | abale |
Class 3 | wale | owale |
Class 4 | yale | eyale |
Class 5 | lale | elale |
Class 6 | ale | awale |
Class 7 | sale | esale |
Class 8 | zale | ezale |
Class 9 | yale | eyale |
Class 10 | zale | ezale |
Class 11 | lwale | olwale |
Class 14 | bale | obale |
Class 15 | kwale | okwale |
Class 17 | kwale | okwale |
Pronoun
le
- this; class 9 proximal demonstrative.
Inflection
Stem -lé | ||
---|---|---|
Full form | lé | |
Locative | kule | |
Full form | lé | |
Locative | kule | |
Copulative | yile | |
Possessive forms | ||
Modifier | Substantive | |
Class 1 | wale | owale |
Class 2 | bale | abale |
Class 3 | wale | owale |
Class 4 | yale | eyale |
Class 5 | lale | elale |
Class 6 | ale | awale |
Class 7 | sale | esale |
Class 8 | zale | ezale |
Class 9 | yale | eyale |
Class 10 | zale | ezale |
Class 11 | lwale | olwale |
Class 14 | bale | obale |
Class 15 | kwale | okwale |
Class 17 | kwale | okwale |