elleux
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]elleux gender-neutral pl (singular ellui)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) Them. A gender-neutral personal pronoun (third-person plural disjunctive).
Related terms
[edit]| 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 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| reflexive4 | — | se, s’ | — | — | soi | |||
| plural | first | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
| second2 | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | ||
| third | masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
| feminine | elles | elles | ||||||
1 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
2 Vous is also used as the polite singular form.
3 Ils and eux are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.
4 These forms are also used as third person plural reflexive.