les
les - English
Alternative forms
Noun
les (plural leses)
- (slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.
Adjective
les (comparative more les, superlative most les)
- (slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.
Anagrams
les - Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛs/
Noun
les - Aragonese
Pronoun
les
- them (indirect object)
Synonyms
les - Asturian
Article
les f pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, masculine plural los)
- (definite) the
les - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA: /ləs/
- (Valencian) IPA: /les/
Article
les f pl (masculine plural els, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)
- the; feminine plural definite article
Pronoun
les (enclitic and proclitic)
- them (feminine, direct object)
Declension
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA: /ˈləs/
- (Central) IPA: /ˈlɛs/
- (Valencian) IPA: /ˈles/
Adjective
les (feminine lesa, masculine plural lesos, feminine plural leses)
Derived terms
- crim de lesa humanitat
Related terms
les - Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlɛs]
- Hyphenation: les
- Homophone: lez
Noun
les m inan
Declension
Related terms
- lesnatý
- lesní
les - Danish
Noun
les c
- indefinite genitive singular of le
les - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛs/
- Hyphenation: les
Noun
les f (plural lessen, diminutive lesje n)
Derived terms
- acteerles
- avondles
- bijles
- gymles
- gymnastiekles
- lesgeven
- leslokaal
- lesplan
- lesrooster
- lessen
- lesuur
- paardrijles
- rijles
- schoolles
- zangles
- zwemles
Descendants
Verb
les
Anagrams
les - French
Pronunciation
Article
les
Usage notes
Pronoun
les m pl or f pl
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.
Anagrams
les - Galician
Verb
les
- second-person singular present indicative of ler
les - German
Pronunciation
- IPA: /leːs/
Verb
les
les - Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlɛʃ]
Noun
les (plural lesek)
- cover, hideaway, ambush (the place where one is concealed, in wait to attack by surprise, or the act of concealing oneself there)
- Synonyms: lesállás, leshely
- Hypernyms: búvóhely, rejtekhely, (hiding place in general) rejtek
- (hunting) hide, blind
- (soccer) offside
- Synonyms: lesállás, leshelyzet
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | les | lesek |
accusative | lest | leseket |
dative | lesnek | leseknek |
instrumental | lessel | lesekkel |
causal-final | lesért | lesekért |
translative | lessé | lesekké |
terminative | lesig | lesekig |
essive-formal | lesként | lesekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | lesben | lesekben |
superessive | lesen | leseken |
adessive | lesnél | leseknél |
illative | lesbe | lesekbe |
sublative | lesre | lesekre |
allative | leshez | lesekhez |
elative | lesből | lesekből |
delative | lesről | lesekről |
ablative | lestől | lesektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular | lesé | leseké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | leséi | lesekéi |
Possessive forms of les | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | lesem | leseim |
2nd person sing. | lesed | leseid |
3rd person sing. | lese | lesei |
1st person plural | lesünk | leseink |
2nd person plural | lesetek | leseitek |
3rd person plural | lesük | leseik |
Verb
les
- (transitive) to spy, peep, peek, pry
- (transitive) to stare, goggle, eye
- (transitive, intransitive) to cheat at a test by looking at someone else's work
Conjugation
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal | 1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | lesek | lesel | les | lesünk | lestek | lesnek |
Def. | lesem | lesed | lesi | lessük | lesitek | lesik | ||
2nd-p. o. | leslek | ― | ||||||
Past | Indef. | lestem | lestél | lesett | lestünk | lestetek | lestek | |
Def. | lestem | lested | leste | lestük | lestétek | lesték | ||
2nd-p. o. | lestelek | ― | ||||||
Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | lesnék | lesnél | lesne | lesnénk | lesnétek | lesnének |
Def. | lesném | lesnéd | lesné | lesnénk (or lesnők) | lesnétek | lesnék | ||
2nd-p. o. | lesnélek | ― | ||||||
Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | lessek | less or lessél | lessen | lessünk | lessetek | lessenek |
Def. | lessem | lesd or lessed | lesse | lessük | lessétek | lessék | ||
2nd-p. o. | lesselek | ― | ||||||
Infinitive | lesni | lesnem | lesned | lesnie | lesnünk | lesnetek | lesniük | |
Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
lesés | leső | lesett | lesendő | lesve | leshet |
Derived terms
- leselkedik
- lesés
(With verbal prefixes):
les - Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛːs/
Noun
les n (genitive singular less, nominative plural les)
- (linguistics) lexeme (set of inflected forms taken by a single word)
- (computing) lexeme (individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis)
Declension
Synonyms
- (lexeme): flettiorð
Derived terms
- lesgreining
- lesgreinir
Verb
les
les - Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlɛs]
- Hyphenation: lès
Noun
lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)
- (education, colloquial) cram school, private tuition.
Verb
lès
- (education, colloquial) to cram, to study hard, to learn at cram school.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlɛs]
- Hyphenation: lès
Noun
lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)
- rein.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈləs]
- Hyphenation: lês
Noun
lês (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)
- alternative spelling of lis
les - Interlingua
Pronoun
les
Usage notes
- Precedes conjugated verbs.
- Can be of mixed gender (not just masculine).
les - Ladin
Article
les f (plural)
les - Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɛːs/
Adjective
les
Noun
les (uncountable)
les - Middle French
Article
les m pl or f pl (masculine singular le, feminine singular la)
Descendants
- French: les
les - Norman
Article
- Alternative form of l's
- les boutons ― the nipples
- les êpices ― the spices
- les lédgeunmes ― the vegetables
- les ridgieaux ― the curtains
les - Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
les
- imperative of lese
les - Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
les
les - Old Czech
Noun
les m
Declension
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | les | lesa, lesy | lesi, lesové (lesoví), lesy |
genitive | lesa, lesu | lesú (lesou) | lesóv (lesuov, lesů), les |
dative | lesu, lesovi | lesoma, lesama | lesóm (lesuom, lesům) |
accusative | les, lesa | lesa, lesy | lesy |
vocative | lese | lesa, lesy | lesi, lesové (lesoví), lesy |
locative | lesě (lese), lesu, lesovi | lesú (lesou) | lesiech (lesích), lesech, lesách |
instrumental | lesem | lesoma, lesama | lesy, lesmi, lesami |
Descendants
- Czech: les
les - Old French
Article
les
- the (feminine plural oblique definite article)
- the (feminine plural nominative definite article)
- the (masculine plural oblique definite article)
Inflection
Descendants
les - Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA: [lʲesʲ]
Pronoun
les
- third-person singular masculine of la
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: [l͈ʲes]
Noun
les m
- Alternative spelling of less (“benefit, advantage”)
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
les also lles after a proclitic | les pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
les - Rohingya
Noun
les
les - Romanian
Noun
les n (plural lesuri)
- (Oltenia) thicket
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) les | lesul | (niște) lesuri | lesurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) les | lesului | (unor) lesuri | lesurilor |
vocative | lesule | lesurilor |
les - Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lêːs/
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian) lijȇs
Noun
lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)
Declension
Noun
lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)
les - Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɛs/
Noun
les m inan (genitive singular lesa, nominative plural lesy, genitive plural lesov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
les - Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA: /léːs/
Noun
lẹ̑s m inan
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem, mobile accent, plural in -ôv- | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | lés | ||
gen. sing. | lesá | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) | lés | lesôva | lesôvi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) | lesá | lesôv | lesôv |
dative (dajȃlnik) | lésu | lesôvoma | lesôvom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) | lés | lesôva | lesôve |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) | lésu | lesôvih | lesôvih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | lésom | lesôvoma | lesôvi |
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | lés | ||
gen. sing. | lésa | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) | lés | lésa | lési |
genitive (rodȋlnik) | lésa | lésov | lésov |
dative (dajȃlnik) | lésu | lésoma | lésom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) | lés | lésa | lése |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) | lésu | lésih | lésih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | lésom | lésoma | lési |
les - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈles/ [ˈles]
- Syllabification: les
Pronoun
les
Article
les m pl or f pl
- (gender-neutral, neologism) the
les - Tok Pisin
Adjective
les
Verb
les
- be lazy
- be tired, be fed up
les - Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA: /leːs/
Noun
les f (plural lesau, not mutable)
- lace (light fabric patterned with holes)
Noun
les f (plural lesoedd, not mutable)
Alternative forms
- lês (obsolete)
Derived terms
- lesddeiliad (“leaseholder”)
Noun
les
- Soft mutation of lles.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
lles | les | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |