elle
DanishEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ɛl/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /a/
audio (file) - Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
PronounEdit
elle f (plural elles)
- she
- Je crois qu'elle est partie.
- I think she left.
- it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
- disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
- C’est à elle.
- It's hers.
SynonymsEdit
- cézigue (argot)
Related termsEdit
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | 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 | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui, soi | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle, soi | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux, soi | |
| Feminine | elles | elles, soi | |||||||
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
elle m (plural elles)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
Further readingEdit
- “elle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin el (the name of the letter L).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
elle f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter L.
See alsoEdit
- (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, kappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
elle f pl
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||||||
LatvianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.[1]
NounEdit
elle f (5th declension)
- (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
- (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)
- nonākt ellē ― to end up in hell
- elles krāsns ― the furnace of hell
- elles mocības ― the torments of hell
- (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
- elles karstums ― infernal heat
- elles troksnis ― infernal noise
- elles darbs ― infernal, terrible, toughwork
- elles mokas ― infernal, horrible suffering
DeclensionEdit
Declension of elle (5th declension)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN