/ɛl/
Translation
she, her, it (feminine)
Word origin
From Latin illa ('that one', feminine), the feminine of the demonstrative ille, which gave rise to the third-person pronouns of the Romance languages.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- illa
Examples
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She works in a big school in town.
? soeur.
That car? It belongs to my sister.
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She isn't replying to my messages.
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She has been working at a bank for five years.
sors .
I'm going out tonight with her and her sister.
Elle est le pronom personnel feminin de la troisieme personne du singulier, employe a la fois comme sujet (elle parle) et comme pronom tonique apres une preposition (avec elle, pour elle). Il represente aussi bien des personnes que des noms feminins inanimés (la table > elle). A l'oral, elle et il se distinguent clairement, mais dans le debit rapide elle peut etre reduit a /ɛl/ voire /l/ en liaison.
La subtilite importante est le genre grammatical : en francais, les objets ont un genre fixe independamment du sexe ou de la nature de la chose. Un apprenant anglophone devra retenir que la voiture est elle et le soleil est il, non par metaphore de genre, mais par convention grammaticale. Maitriser les genres est une condition pour accorder correctement les pronoms et les adjectifs.
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Grammar articles
(40)French Adjective Agreement: Gender, Number, and Position Rules
French Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Adverbs of Manner: Forming -ment Adverbs
French Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
French Conditionnel: Polite Requests, Hypothetical 'Would', and the Same Irregular Stems as the Future
Conjugating French -er Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -re Verbs in the Present Tense
French Verb Conjugation: The Complete Rules with Examples
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
French Negation Beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
French Noun Gender: Why Every Noun Is Le or La, and the Endings That Give It Away
French Object Pronouns: me, te, le, la, lui, nous, vous, leur and the Preverbal Position
The French Present Participle and Gerund (le participe présent et le gérondif)
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Prepositions: à, de, en, dans, sur, chez and the Mandatory Contractions
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
French Question Words: qui, que, quand, où, comment, pourquoi and the Three Ways to Ask
French Reflexive Verbs: se laver, se lever, s'appeler and the Singular Pronouns
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
French Stressed Pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles
The French Subjunctive After Conjunctions
The French Subjunctive After Doubt, Emotion and Opinion
The French Subjunctive After Necessity and Will
The French Present Subjunctive: How to Form It
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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