êle

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ele"

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese ele.

Pronoun

êle (plural ilôtro, female êla)

1. third-person singular personal pronoun; he/she/they (singular)

   Êle nádi vai ― He/she/they (sg.) will not go

Usage notes

• In general, Macanese does not make a gender distinction for the third-person singular personal pronoun, similar to Cantonese, however some speakers may use êla for "she", derived from Portuguese ela.

Derived terms

• êle-sua, êle-sa (“his, her, their (sg.)”)

See also

Macanese personal pronouns (edit)
Person	Singular	Possessive	Plural	Possessive	Reflexive	Possessive
First	iou, io, mi*, ieu*	iou-sa, iou-sua#, minha, io-sa, io-sua#	nôs, nosôtro*	nôs-sa, nôsso, nôs-sua#	onçóm	su, onçóm-sa*, onçóm-sua#
Second	vôs	vôs-sa, vôsso, su, vôs-sua#	vosôtro	vosôtro-sa, su, vosôtro-sua#
Third	êle, êla*	êle-sa, su, êle-sua#	ilôtro, elôtro*, olôtro*, ulôtro*	ilôtro-sa, su, ilôtro-sua#

#: dated.
*: rare.

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Portuguese

Pronoun

êle (feminine ela, plural êles, feminine plural elas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1971/Portugal 1945) of ele.

Sango

Noun

êle

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) âa, bêe, dêe, êe, fêe, gâa, hâsi, îi, kâa, êle, êmo, êni, ô, pêe, êre, êsi, têe, ûu, vêe, wêe, yêe, zêe