elle

See also: Elle, êlle, ellē, and -elle

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Danish

Noun

elle c

1. indefinite plural of el

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

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• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

elle f (plural elles)

1. she

   Je crois qu'elle est partie.

   I think she left.

2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers

   C’est à elle.

   It's hers.

Synonyms

• cézigue (argot)

Related terms

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 2

Noun

elle m (plural elles)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.

Further reading

• “elle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.le/, [ˈɛl̺l̺e]
• Hyphenation: èl‧le

Noun

elle f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.

See also

• (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 2

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.le/, [ˈel̺l̺e]
• Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f pl

1. (archaic) plural of ella

   Synonyms: esse, loro

Derived terms

• elleno

See also

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.

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Latvian

Elle

Etymology

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.

Noun

elle f (5th declension)

1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
2. (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

3. (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

Declension

Declension of elle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	elle	elles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	elli	elles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	elles	eļļu
dative (datīvs)	ellei	ellēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	elli	ellēm
locative (lokatīvs)	ellē	ellēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	elle	elles

Synonyms

• pekle

References

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Middle English

Noun

elle

1. Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

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Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

1. she

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlle/

Verb

ēlle

1. inflection of eallit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

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Portuguese

Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of ele

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Spanish

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

1. Name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously was considered a letter.

Synonyms

• doble ele

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Turkish

Etymology

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

Adverb

elle

1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek