See also: êlles and ellēs

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronoun edit

elles f pl

  1. they (female)

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

elles

  1. they (feminine)

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Danish edit

Noun edit

elles c

  1. indefinite genitive plural of el

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French eles, from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

elles f pl (third-person plural, singular elle, accusative les, dative leur, emphatic elles, possessive determiner leur)

  1. they (female)
  2. them (female)

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Noun edit

elles f

  1. plural of elle

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Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

el- (away, off) +‎ les (to spy, peep, peek)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛlːɛʃ]
  • Hyphenation: el‧les
  • Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Verb edit

elles

  1. (transitive) to learn by watching, to acquire by (close and often secret) observation (from someone: -tól/-től)
    • 1862, Imre Madách, The Tragedy of Man,[1] translation by J.C.W. Horne,[2] Iain MacLeod,[3] and George Szirtes,[4] Scene 1:
      Nehány golyóba összevissza gyúrva, / Most vonzza, űzi és taszítja egymást, / Nehány féregben öntudatra kél, / Míg minden megtelt, míg minden kihűlt, / És megmarad a semleges salak. – / Az ember ezt, ha egykor ellesi, / Vegykonyhájában szintén megteszi.
      That a few spheres this way or that revolve, / That one attracts another or repels, / That in a few worms dawns a consciousness, / Till all be fulfilled and till all grow cold / And only indistinguishable dust remain? / Why, man too, almost, if he should but learn, / Might in his kitchen seethe as good a broth
      Meanwhile this matter, kneaded into globes, / unfolds, attracts, repulses, whirls around, / till in some beast a conscious thought is kindled… / Then all fulfilled and all its heat expended, / indifferent, the neutral dust remains. / One day, man may himself acquire the knack / and plagiarize this crude experiment
      Are now screwed up into these tiny globes / That chase, attract or else repel each other, / Awaking a few worms to consciousness / Till all of space is tilled at last, grows cold, / And only the indifferent slag is left? / If man’s at all observant he’ll concoct / Some hash like this with his poor instruments.

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

  • elles in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • elles in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Latvian edit

Noun edit

elles f

  1. inflection of elle:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old English elles, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

elles

  1. else

Adverb edit

elles

  1. else

Conjunction edit

elles

  1. else

Descendants edit

  • English: else
  • Yola: elles

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Middle French edit

Pronoun edit

elles f pl

  1. they (female).
  2. them (female).

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From eller (or).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

elles

  1. (conjunctive) else, otherwise
    Det lyt du gjera, elles går dette gale.
    You have to do that, else this will go wrong.

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Pronoun edit

elles m pl

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

Noun edit

elles m

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝes/ [ˈe.ʝes]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎes/ [ˈe.ʎes]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃes/ [ˈe.ʃes]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒes/ [ˈe.ʒes]

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝes
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎes
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃes
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒes

  • Syllabification: e‧lles

Pronoun edit

elles gender-neutral pl

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they; a gender-neutral plural third-person personal pronoun
    • 2019, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Derechos humanos en la Argentina: Informe 2019, Siglo XXI Editores, →ISBN:
      Elles integraron los organismos junto a activistas que si bien no tenían parientes desaparecides se sumaron por trayectorias militantes y profesionales.
      They were part of the organizations along with activists who, although they had no relatives who had disappeared, joined them through militant and professional trajectories.
  2. plural of elle

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Noun edit

elles f pl

  1. plural of elle

Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English elles, from Old English elles, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

elles

  1. else

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 38