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Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
ella
- she
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronoun
ella
- she
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ella (plural elles)
- she
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
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strong/subject
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weak (direct object)
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weak (indirect object)
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possessive
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singular
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proclitic
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enclitic
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proclitic
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enclitic
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1st person
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jo, mi3
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em, m’
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-me, ’m
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em, m’
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-me, ’m
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meu
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1st person majestic1
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nós
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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nostre
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2nd person
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tu
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et, t’
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-te, ’t
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et, t’
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-te, ’t
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teu
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2nd person formal1
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vós
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us
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-vos, -us
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us
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-vos, -us
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vostre
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2nd person very formal2
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vostè
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el, l’
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-lo, ’l
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person masculine
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ell
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el, l’
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-lo, ’l
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person feminine
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ella
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la, l’4
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-la
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person neuter
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ho
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-ho
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person reflexive
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si
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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seu
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plural
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1st person
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nosaltres
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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nostre
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2nd person
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vosaltres
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us
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-vos, -us
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us
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-vos, -us
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vostre
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2nd person formal2
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vostès
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els
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-los, ’ls
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person masculine
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ells
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els
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-los, ’ls
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person feminine
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elles
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les
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-les
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person reflexive
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si
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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seu
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adverbial
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ablative/genitive
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en, n’
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-ne, ’n
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locative
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hi
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-hi
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1) Behaves grammatically as plural. 2) Behaves grammatically as third person.
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3) Only as object of a preposition. 4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
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Corsican
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛlːa/
- Hyphenation: el‧la
Pronoun
ella f
- she
- her (disjunctive)
See also
Corsican personal pronouns
References
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse ella.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
ella
- or
Fula
Etymology
From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).
Noun
ella o
- (Maasina, Pulaar) flaw, blemish, vice, defect
- elle (Maasina Plural)
- ellaaji (Pulaar Plural)
- allaaru (Maasina)
References
- D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
- M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elligar. Compare ellegar. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aljaz.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ella
- else, or else, otherwise
Synonyms
Conjunction
ella
- or
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)
- (literary, subject form) she
- Synonym: lei
Usage notes
- The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favor of the oblique form lei.
See also
Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
Number
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Person
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Gender
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Nominative
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Reflexive
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Accusative
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Dative
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Locative
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Genitive
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Disjunctive
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Singular |
third |
m
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esso1, egli, elli3 |
si, s' |
lo, l' |
gli
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vi, v'
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ne, n' |
esso, sé
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f
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essa, ella, Ella2 |
la, l' |
le, ella3
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essa, sé
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Plural |
third |
m
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essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 |
si, s' |
li |
loro
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vi, v'
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ne, n' |
essi, sé
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f
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esse, elle3, elleno3 |
le |
esse, elle,3 sé
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1 |
Refers predominantly to non-humans.
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2 |
Highly elevated variant of Lei.
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3 |
Archaic.
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Anagrams
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.
Pronunciation
Verb
·ella
- unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs
Derived terms
It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.
Mutation
Mutation of ella
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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·ella (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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·n-ella
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Portuguese
Pronoun
ella f
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ela.
Sotho
Verb
ella
- to move towards
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈeʎa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒa/
Pronoun
ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural ellos)
- she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
- it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
See also
Spanish personal pronouns
- 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
Welsh
Pronunciation
Adverb
ella
- perhaps, maybe (colloquial form of efallai)