# elle
## 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: /ˈɛlːe/
* Hyphenation: el‧le

### Pronoun

elle f
* they (feminine)
* them (disjunctive)

#### See also
### 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
* indefinite plural of el

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛl/
* (Quebec, informal) IPA: /a/
* Audio:(file)
* 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)
* she
    Je crois qu’elle est partie.I think she left.
* it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
    Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.That's my car. It is five years old.
* disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
    C’est à elle.It's hers.

##### Synonyms

* cézigue (argot)

##### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi |
| Singular | Second | — | tu | te, t’ | te, t’ | — | — | toi |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | elle | la, l’ | lui | y | en | elle |
| Singular | Third | Indeterminate | on$^1$ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Singular | Third | Reflexive | — | se, s’$^4$ | se, s’$^4$ | — | — | soi$^4$ |
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | — | — | nous |
| Plural | Second | — | vous$^2$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | — | — | vous$^2$ |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | ils$^3$ | les | leur | y | en | eux$^3$ |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | elles | les | leur | y | en | 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)
* 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: /ˈɛl.le/
* Rhymes: -ɛlle
* Hyphenation: èl‧le

#### Noun

elle f (invariable)
* 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: /ˈel.le/
* Rhymes: -elle
* Hyphenation: él‧le

#### Pronoun

elle f pl
* (archaic) plural of ella
    Synonyms: esse, loro

##### Derived terms

* elleno

#### See also

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
| Singular | third | m | esso$^1$, egli, elli$^3$ | si, s' | lo, l' | gli | vi, v' | ne, n' | esso, sé |
| Singular | third | f | essa, ella, Ella$^2$ | si, s' | la, l' | le, ella$^3$ | vi, v' | ne, n' | essa, sé |
| Plural | third | m | essi, eglino$^3$, ellino$^3$, elli$^3$ | si, s' | li | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | essi, sé |
| Plural | third | f | esse, elle$^3$, elleno$^3$ | si, s' | le | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | esse, elle$^3$, sé |
| $^1$ | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | Refers predominantly to non-humans. |
| $^2$ | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | Highly elevated variant of Lei. |
| $^3$ | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. | Archaic. |

## Latvian
### 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)
* (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
* (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
* (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

#### Synonyms

* pekle

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

elle
* Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

## Middle French
### Pronoun

elle f
* she

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈeːlle/

### Verb

ēlle
* inflection of eallit:
** first-person dual present indicative
** 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)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### References

* “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
* IPA: (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)
* name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter
    Synonym: doble ele

### Pronoun

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)
* (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun
    elle es muy altethey 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

| | | | | nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive |
| first person | singular | singular | singular | yo | me | me | mí$^1$ |
| first person | plural | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | nosotros | nos | nos | nosotros |
| first person | plural | feminine | feminine | nosotras | nos | nos | nosotras |
| second person | singular | tuteo | tuteo | tú | te | te | ti$^1$ |
| second person | singular | voseo | voseo | vos | te | te | vos |
| second person | singular | formal$^3$ | formal$^3$ | usted | le, se$^4$ | lo/la$^5$ | usted |
| second person | plural | familiar$^6$ | masculine$^2$ | vosotros | os | os | vosotros |
| second person | plural | familiar$^6$ | feminine | vosotras | os | os | vosotras |
| second person | plural | formal/general$^3$ | formal/general$^3$ | ustedes | les, se$^4$ | los/las$^5$ | ustedes |
| third person | singular | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | él | le, se$^4$ | lo | él |
| third person | singular | feminine | feminine | ella | le, se$^4$ | la | ella |
| third person | singular | neuter | neuter | ello$^7$ | le, se$^4$ | lo | ello |
| third person | plural | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | ellos | les, se$^4$ | los | ellos |
| third person | plural | feminine | feminine | ellas | les, se$^4$ | las | ellas |
| third person | reflexive | reflexive | reflexive | — | se | se | sí$^1$ |
* Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
* 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.
* Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
* 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)
* Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
* Used primarily in Spain
* 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: /ˈʔelje/ [ˈʔɛl.jɛ]
* Rhymes: -elje
* Syllabification: el‧le

### Noun

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)
* (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
* by hand, manually

### Verb

elle
* second-person singular imperative of ellemek