/il/
Translation
he, it (masculine)
Word origin
From Latin ille ('that one, he'), the demonstrative pronoun that also gave the definite article le. English has no direct cognate, though ille underlies many Romance pronouns.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ille
Examples
Lyon l' .
He has been living in Lyon since last year.
, .
It's cold this morning, put on a jacket.
? .
My brother? He'll be here in ten minutes.
pleut .
It has been raining since this morning without stopping.
.
We must leave early to avoid the traffic.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(16)On a le temps
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Un soir avec Marc
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Pas la même chose
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Seule dans la nuit
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Cuisiner ensemble
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La fête surprise
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Le bus manqué
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Le dernier train de la nuit
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Le jour du travail
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Le nouveau docteur
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Le premier jour de travail
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Un après-midi de pluie
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Clara trouve sa place
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Un voyage difficile
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Une rencontre au marché
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Pas devant les clients
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French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
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French Interrogatives: qui, que, où, quand, comment, pourquoi, combien, quel
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French Irregular Verbs: The Core Set, the -ir Split and the Patterns That Repeat
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French Negation: ne... pas, jamais, rien, personne and the Colloquial ne-Drop
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French Object Pronouns: me, te, le, la, lui, nous, vous, leur and the Preverbal Position
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French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
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French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
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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 Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
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French Reflexive Verbs: se laver, se lever, s'appeler and the Singular Pronouns
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French Relative Pronouns After a Preposition: lequel, auquel, duquel
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
Reported Questions and Commands in French
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French Stressed Pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles
French Subject Pronouns: je, tu, il, nous, vous, ils and the on That Replaced nous
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French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
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French Verbs with à, de or Nothing Before an Infinitive
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