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 and possessives

	person	pronoun	possessive
singular	first	iou, io, mi*, ieu*	iou-sa, iou-sua#, minha, io-sa, io-sua#
	second	vôs	vôs-sa, vôsso, su, vôs-sua#
	third	êle, êla*	êle-sa, su, êle-sua#
plural	first	nôs, nosôtro*	nôs-sa, nôsso, nôs-sua#
	second	vosôtro	vosôtro-sa, su, vosôtro-sua#
	third	ilôtro, elôtro*, olôtro*, ulôtro*	ilôtro-sa, su, ilôtro-sua#
reflexive (all persons)		onçóm	su, onçóm-sa*, onçóm-sua#

# Dated.   * Rare.

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈe.li/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈe.li/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈe.le/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈe.lɨ/

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈɐl/
• Hyphenation: ê‧le

Pronoun

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

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) 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