elle

See also: -elle, Elle, ellē, êlle, and élle

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian elle (“they”) and French elles (“they”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlːe/
• Hyphenation: el‧le

Pronoun

elle f

1. they (feminine)
2. them (disjunctive)

See also

Corsican personal pronouns

		Nominative	Dative	Accusative	Disjunctive
Singular	1st person	eiu	mi		mè
	2nd person	tù	ti		tè
	3rd person m	ellu	li	u, l'	ellu
	3rd person f	ella		a, l'	ella
Plural	1st person	noi	ci		noi
	2nd person	voi	vi		voi
	3rd person m	elli	li	i, l'	elli
	3rd person f	elle		e, l'	elle

References

• “elle” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210928184944/https://gbatti-alinguacorsa.pagesperso-orange.fr/

Danish

Noun

elle c

1. indefinite plural of el

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /a/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

elle f (third-person singular, plural elles, accusative la, dative lui, emphatic elle, possessive determiner son)

1. she

   Je crois qu’elle est partie.

   I think she left.

2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)

   Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.

   That's my car. It is five years old.

3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers

   C’est à elle.

   It's hers.

Synonyms

• cézigue (argot)

Related terms

French personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative (subject)	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	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui
		Feminine	elle	la, l’				elle
		Indeterminate	on1	—	—	—	—	—
		Reflexive	—	se, s’4		—	—	soi4
Plural	First	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous
	Second	—	vous2	vous2,3		—	—	vous2
	Third	Masculine	ils3	les	leur	y	en	eux3
		Feminine	elles					elles

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

elle m (plural elles)

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

Further reading

• “elle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: èl‧le

Noun

elle f (invariable)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Etymology 2

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.le/
• Rhymes: -elle
• Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f pl

1. (archaic) plural of ella

   Synonyms: esse, loro

Derived terms

• elleno

See also

Italian personal pronouns (alternate)

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Locative	Genitive	Disjunctive
Singular	third	m	esso1, egli, elli3	si, s'	lo, l'	gli	vi, v'	ne, n'	esso, sé
		f	essa, ella, Ella2		la, l'	le, ella3			essa, sé
Plural	third	m	essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3	si, s'	li	loro	vi, v'	ne, n'	essi, sé
		f	esse, elle3, elleno3		le				esse, elle,3 sé
1	Refers predominantly to non-humans.
2	Highly elevated variant of Lei.
3	Archaic.

Latvian

Elle

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.

Noun

elle f (5th declension)

1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
2. (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)

   nonākt ellē ― to end up in hell

   elles krāsns ― the furnace of hell

   elles mocības ― the torments of hell

3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)

   elles karstums ― infernal heat

   elles troksnis ― infernal noise

   elles darbs ― infernal, terrible, toughwork

   elles mokas ― infernal, horrible suffering

Declension

Declension of elle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	elle	elles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	elli	elles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	elles	eļļu
dative (datīvs)	ellei	ellēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	elli	ellēm
locative (lokatīvs)	ellē	ellēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	elle	elles

Synonyms

• pekle

Middle English

Noun

elle

1. Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

1. she

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlle/

Verb

ēlle

1. inflection of eallit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)

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References

• “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe]

 

• Rhymes: -eʝe

• Rhymes: -eʝe
• Rhymes: -eʎe
• Rhymes: -eʃe
• Rhymes: -eʒe

• Syllabification: e‧lle

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter

   Synonym: doble ele

Pronoun

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun

   elle es muy alte

   they are very tall

   • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, translated by Raquel García Rojas, Cómo entender tu género: una guía práctica para explorar quién eres, Dos Bigotes, →ISBN:

     Meg-John ha notado que rara vez corrige a alguien si esa persona utiliza los pronombres incorrectos para referirse a elle en la presentación al comienzo de una conferencia.

     Meg-John has noticed that they rarely correct someone if that person uses the wrong pronouns to refer to them in the presentation at the beginning of a lecture.

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masculine2		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		feminine		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal3		usted	le, se4	lo/la5	usted
	plural	familiar6	masculine2	vosotros	os		vosotros
			feminine	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general3		ustedes	les, se4	los/las5	ustedes
third person	singular	masculine2		él	le, se4	lo	él
		feminine		ella		la	ella
		neuter		ello7		lo	ello
	plural	masculine2		ellos	les, se4	los	ellos
		feminine		ellas		las	ellas
	reflexive			—	se		sí1

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances

Further reading

• “elle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• elye

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔelje/ [ˈʔɛl.jɛ]
• Rhymes: -elje
• Syllabification: el‧le

Noun

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario

See also

• ele

Turkish

Etymology

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

Adverb

elle

1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek