els

Obsolete form ofelse.
- c.1522 (date written),Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e.,William Rastell], editor,The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London:[…]Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, andRicharde Tottell, published30 April 1557,→OCLC, book I,page80, column 1:
  Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛels ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
- c.1691,John Aubrey,Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
  We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every oneels putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

Anagrams

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-les-,ESL,LES,LSE,Les,LαEs,SEL,SLE,les

Aragonese

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Etymology

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FromLatinillos(“those ones”). Akin toSpanishellos andPortugueseeles.

Pronoun

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els

they(third-person plural masculine pronoun)

Synonyms

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ellos

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinillōs, fromille.

Pronunciation

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(Balearic,Central)IPA^(key):/əls/,(before voiced sound)/əlz/
(Valencia)IPA^(key):/els/,(before voiced sound)/elz/
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Article

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els m pl (feminine pluralles,masculine singularel,feminine singularla)

the;masculine plural definite article

Pronoun

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els (proclitic,encliticlos,contracted enclitic'ls)

them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
Els visitaré. ―I'll visitthem.
Els donaré una moneda. ―I'll givethem a coin.
them (feminine, indirect object only)
Els diré la veritat. ―I'll tellthem the truth.

Usage notes

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els is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

Declension

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Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
			strong/subject	proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic	possessive
singular	1st person	standard	jo,mi³	em,m’	-me,’m	em,m’	-me,’m	meu
	1st person	majestic¹	nós	ens	-nos,’ns	ens	-nos,’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et,t’	-te,’t	et,t’	-te,’t	teu
		formal¹	vós	us	-vos,-us	us	-vos,-us	vostre
		very formal²	vostè	el,l’	-lo,’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el,l’	-lo,’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la,l’⁴	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos,’ns	ens	-nos,’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos,-us	us	-vos,-us	vostre
	2nd person	formal²	vostès	els	-los,’ls	els	-los,’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los,’ls	els	-los,’ls	seu
	3rd person	f	elles	les	-les	els	-los,’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es,s’	-se,’s	es,s’	-se,’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en,n’	-ne,’n
adverbial	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural. ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition. ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Danish

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Noun

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els c

indefinite genitive singular ofel

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):/ɛls/
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Hyphenation:els
Rhymes:-ɛls

Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchelse, fromOld Dutch*alisa, fromFrankish*alisu, fromProto-Germanic*alisō, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂élis-.

CompareGermanErle,Englishalder,Danishel,Norwegianolder,Icelandicelri.

Noun

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els m (pluralelzen,diminutiveelsje n)

alder, tree of the genusAlnus

Derived terms

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Descendants

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→ Papiamentu:èls

→ Papiamentu:èls

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinillās.

Pronoun

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els f pl (postpositive-els)(ORB, broad)

they(third-person plural feminine nominative)

Franco-Provençal personal pronouns
		nominative	accusative	dative	tonic¹	possessive²
singular	1^st person	jo	mè	min
2^nd person	te	tè	tin
3^rd person	masculine	il	lo /le	lui	sin
feminine	el	la	lyé
neuter	o	y	—
reflexive	—	sè

plural	1^st person	nos	noutro
2^nd person	vos	voutro
3^rd person	masculine	ils	los /les	lor	lor
feminine	els	les	lor /lyés
reflexive	—	sè