See also: êlles and ellēs

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

PronounEdit

elles f pl

  1. they (female)

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

elles

  1. they (feminine)

See alsoEdit

DanishEdit

NounEdit

elles c

  1. indefinite genitive plural of el

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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

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

Related termsEdit

NounEdit

elles f

  1. plural of elle

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

VerbEdit

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.

ConjugationEdit

Further readingEdit

  • 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

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

elles f

  1. genitive singular form of elle
  2. nominative plural form of elle
  3. vocative plural form of elle
  4. accusative plural form of elle

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

elles

  1. else

AdverbEdit

elles

  1. else

ConjunctionEdit

elles

  1. else

DescendantsEdit

  • English: else
  • Yola: elles

ReferencesEdit

Middle FrenchEdit

PronounEdit

elles f pl

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

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From eller (or).

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

elles

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

ReferencesEdit

PortugueseEdit

PronounEdit

elles m pl

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

NounEdit

elles m

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

 
  • 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

PronounEdit

elles

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (plural). 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

See alsoEdit

NounEdit

elles f pl

  1. plural of elle

YolaEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

elles

  1. else

ReferencesEdit

  • 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