les

See also: Variations of "les"

les - English

Alternative forms

Noun

les (plural leses)

  1. (slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.

Adjective

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

  1. (slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.

Anagrams

les - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛs/

Noun

les (plural lesse, diminutive lessie)

  1. lesson

les - Aragonese

Pronoun

les

  1. them (indirect object)

Synonyms

les - Asturian

Article

les f pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, masculine plural los)

  1. (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)

  1. the; feminine plural definite article

Pronoun

les (enclitic and proclitic)

  1. them (feminine, direct object)

Declension

strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural. 2) Behaves grammatically as third person. 3) Only as object of a preposition. 4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA: /ˈləs/
  • (Central) IPA: /ˈlɛs/
  • (Valencian) IPA: /ˈles/

Adjective

les (feminine lesa, masculine plural lesos, feminine plural leses)

  1. (law) harmed

Derived terms

  • crim de lesa humanitat

les - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈlɛs]
  • Hyphenation: les
  • Homophone: lez

Noun

les m inan

  1. forest

Declension

singular plural
nominative les lesy
genitive lesa lesů
dative lesu lesům
accusative les lesy
vocative lese lesy
locative lese lesích
instrumental lesem lesy
nouns
adjectives
proverb

les - Danish

Noun

les c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of le

les - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛs/
  • Hyphenation: les

Noun

les f (plural lessen, diminutive lesje n)

  1. course, lesson

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: les
  • Caribbean Javanese: lès
  • Indonesian: les
  • Papiamentu: lès, les

Verb

les

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lessen
  2. imperative of lessen

Anagrams

les - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛ/, (in liaison) /lɛ.z‿/, (in liaison) /le.z‿/
  • IPA: /le/, (in liaison) /le.z‿/
  • Homophones: , lés, lez, lait, laits

Article

les

  1. plural of le: the
  2. plural of la: the

Usage notes

  • de les is never used: contracted into des.
  • à les is never used: contracted into aux.

Pronoun

les m pl or f pl

  1. plural of le: them
  2. plural of la: them
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.

Anagrams

les - Galician

Verb

les

  1. second-person singular present indicative of ler

les - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /leːs/

Verb

les

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lesen
    • Synonym: (standard) lese
  2. (colloquial) singular imperative of lesen
    • Synonym: (standard) lies

les - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈlɛʃ]

Noun

les (plural lesek)

  1. cover, hideaway, ambush (the place where one is concealed, in wait to attack by surprise, or the act of concealing oneself there)
  2. (hunting) hide, blind
  3. (soccer) offside
    • Synonyms: lesállás, leshelyzet

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of les

Verb

les

  1. (transitive) to spy, peep, peek, pry
  2. (transitive) to stare, goggle, eye
  3. (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
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)

  1. (linguistics) lexeme (set of inflected forms taken by a single word)
  2. (computing) lexeme (individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis)

Declension

n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative les lesið les lesin
accusative les lesið les lesin
dative lesi lesinu lesum lesunum
genitive less lessins lesa lesanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • lesgreining
  • lesgreinir

Verb

les

  1. first-person singular of lesa (to read)
    • Ég les mikið af þýskum bókum.
      • I read a lot of German books.
  2. third-person singular of lesa (to read)
    • Pálmi les alltaf sömu söguna, þótt hann eigi margar bækur.
      • Pálmi always reads the same story, even though he has many books.

les - Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈlɛs]
  • Hyphenation: lès

Noun

lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

  1. (education, colloquial) cram school, private tuition.

Verb

lès

  1. (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)

  1. rein.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈləs]
  • Hyphenation: lês

Noun

lês (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

  1. alternative spelling of lis

les - Interlingua

Pronoun

les

  1. (dative) to them

Usage notes

  • Precedes conjugated verbs.
  • Can be of mixed gender (not just masculine).

les - Ladin

Article

les f (plural)

  1. the

les - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɛːs/

Adjective

les

  1. false; lying; deceptive

Noun

les (uncountable)

  1. falsehood; a lie

les - Middle French

Article

les m pl or f pl (masculine singular le, feminine singular la)

  1. the

Descendants

les - Norman

Article

les pl (singular , and la)

  1. Alternative form of l's
    • les boutonsthe nipples
    • les êpicesthe spices
    • les lédgeunmesthe vegetables
    • les ridgieauxthe curtains

les - Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

les

  1. imperative of lese

les - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

les

  1. present tense of lesa
  2. imperative of lesa

les - Old Czech

Noun

les m

  1. forest

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

les - Old French

Article

les

  1. the (feminine plural oblique definite article)
  2. the (feminine plural nominative definite article)
  3. the (masculine plural oblique 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.

Descendants

les - Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [lʲesʲ]

Pronoun

les

  1. third-person singular masculine of la

Alternative forms


Pronunciation

  • IPA: [l͈ʲes]

Noun

les m

  1. Alternative spelling of less (benefit, advantage)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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

  1. tail

les - Romanian

Noun

les n (plural lesuri)

  1. (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

Noun

lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)

  1. coffin
  2. (regionally) lumber
  3. (regionally) forest, woods

Declension

singular plural
nominative lȇs lésovi
genitive lesa lésōvā
dative lesu lesovima
accusative les lesove
vocative lese lesovi
locative lesu lesovima
instrumental lesom lesovima

Noun

lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)

  1. (geology) loess

les - Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈlɛs/

Noun

les m inan (genitive singular lesa, nominative plural lesy, genitive plural lesov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. forest

Declension

singular plural
nominative les lesy
genitive lesa lesov
dative lesu lesom
accusative les lesy
locative lese lesoch
instrumental lesom lesmi

les - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /léːs/

Noun

lẹ̑s m inan

  1. wood

Inflection

Masculine inan., hard o-stem, mobile accent, plural in -ôv-
nom. sing. lés
gen. sing. lesá
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. lés
gen. sing. lésa

les - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈles/ [ˈles]
  • Syllabification: les

Pronoun

les

  1. dative of ellos and ellas; to them, for them
  2. dative of ustedes; to you all, for you all (formal)

Article

les m pl or f pl

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) the

les - Tok Pisin

Adjective

les

  1. lazy
  2. tired, fed up

Verb

les

  1. be lazy
  2. be tired, be fed up

les - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /leːs/

Noun

les f (plural lesau, not mutable)

  1. lace (light fabric patterned with holes)

Noun

les f (plural lesoedd, not mutable)

  1. lease

Alternative forms

Derived terms


Noun

les

  1. Soft mutation of lles.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
lles les unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Meaning and Definition of les
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