eux
See also: -eux
Contents
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French els, from Latin illos, which is the accusative plural of ille.[1]
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
eux m pl
- They: disjunctive form of ils.
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 | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), chapter IL, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further readingEdit
- “eux” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).