ella
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun edit
ella
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun edit
ella
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ella (plural elles)
Declension edit
Corsican edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ella f
See also edit
References edit
- “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
ella
Fula edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ella o
References edit
- D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
- M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elligar. Compare ellegar.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ella
Synonyms edit
Conjunction edit
ella
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)
Usage notes edit
- The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favour/favor of the oblique form lei.
See also edit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
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Singular | third | m | esso1, egli, elli3 | si, s' | lo, l' | gli | vi, v' | ne, n' | esso, sé |
f | essa, ella, Ella2 | la, l' | le, ella3 | essa, sé | |||||
Plural | third | m | essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 | si, s' | li | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | essi, sé |
f | esse, elle3, elleno3 | le | esse, elle,3 sé | ||||||
1 | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | ||||||||
2 | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | ||||||||
3 | Archaic. |
Anagrams edit
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
·ella
- unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs
Derived terms edit
It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·ella | unchanged | ·n-ella |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Portuguese edit
Pronoun edit
ella f
Sotho edit
Verb edit
ella
- to move towards
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- Syllabification: e‧lla
Pronoun edit
ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural ellos)
- she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
- it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Related terms edit
See also edit
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
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first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
Further reading edit
- “él”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ella