êle

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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

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

Portuguese

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.

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