eux
See also: -eux
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French els, from Latin illos, which is the accusative plural of ille.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
eux m pl
- they: disjunctive form of ils
Related terms edit
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | moi | |
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | toi | ||
| Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||
| Gender neutral5 | iel | lea | ellui | |||
| Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | ||
| Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | soi4 | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | |
| Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | vous2 | ||
| Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | ||||
| Gender neutral5 | iels | elleux | ||||
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
- 5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.
References edit
- ^ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) chapter IL, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further reading edit
- “eux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.