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• IPA(key): /elˈle/ [ʔɛlˈlɛ]
• Hyphenation: el‧le

ellé

1. that (the one mentioned before)
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:3 [Ruth 1:3]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎[2]:
     Alimelek elle gexe baaxol waqlak wadir rabeh.
     After going to the country, that Elimelek died.

Univerbation of én (“to be”) +‎ lé (“to have”).

• IPA(key): /elˈle/ [ʔɛlˈlɛ]
• Hyphenation: el‧le

ellé

1. (transitive) possess

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “elle”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 96
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 96

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

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

elle f

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

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

elle c

1. indefinite plural of el

• IPA(key): /ɛl/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /a/
• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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

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, it; à elle = hers, its
   • 2001, Louis LeBel, Marie Deschamps, Supreme Court of Canada, “Ciment du Saint-Laurent inc. c. Barrette, 2008 CSC 64”, in CanLII‎[4]:
     Né de la poussière, destiné à y retourner, l’être humain se résigne mal à vivre en elle.
     Dust they are and unto dust they will return, but human beings do not readily accept living in it.

• cézigue (argot)

French personal pronouns

1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2 Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6 Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
7 Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

elle m (plural elles)

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

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

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

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

elle f (invariable)

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

• (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

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

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

elle f pl

1. (dated, literary) plural of ella
   Synonyms: esse, loro

• elleno

Italian personal pronouns (alternative)

• elle in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• elle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• elle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

elle on Latvian Wikipedia

Elle

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or borrowed from Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.[1]

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

• pekle

1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

elle

1. alternative form of elne (“ell”)

elle f

1. she

• (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈeːlle/

ēlle

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

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

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• “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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

• IPA(key): /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]

• IPA(key): /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)

• IPA(key): /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)

• IPA(key): /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe] (Buenos Aires and environs)

• IPA(key): /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -eʝe

• Rhymes: -eʝe (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)

• Rhymes: -eʎe (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)

• Rhymes: -eʃe (Buenos Aires and environs)

• Rhymes: -eʒe (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: e‧lle

elle f (plural elles)

1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter
   Synonym: doble ele

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.

The adjectives, determiners and nouns that correspond to this gender-neutral pronoun end in -e.

• “elle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• elye

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

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

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

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

• ele

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

elle

1. by hand, manually

elle

1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek

elle

1. in hury