els

See also: ELS, ELs, Els, èls, -els, and eļš

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛlz/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlz

Noun

els

  1. plural of el

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛls/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛls

Adjective

els (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of else.
    • c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
      We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illos (“those ones”). Akin to Spanish ellos and Portuguese eles.

Pronoun

els

  1. they (third-person plural masculine pronoun)

Synonyms

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōs, from ille.

Pronunciation
  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əls/, (before voiced sound) /əlz/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /els/, (before voiced sound) /elz/
  • Audio(file)

Article

els m pl (feminine plural les, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)

  1. the; masculine plural definite article

Pronoun

els (proclitic, enclitic los, contracted enclitic 'ls)

  1. them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
    Els visitaré. ― I'll visit them.
    Els donaré una moneda. ― I'll give them a coin.
  2. them (feminine, indirect object only)
    Els diré la veritat. ― I'll tell them the truth.

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

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

Noun

els c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of el

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛls/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: els
  • Rhymes: -ɛls

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch else, from Old Dutch *alisa, from Frankish *alisu, from Proto-Germanic *alisō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-.

Compare German Erle, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri.

Noun

els m (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

  1. alder, tree of the genus Alnus
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: èls

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch elsene, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *alisnō, *alusnō. Related to *ēlō, whence Dutch aal, German Ahle, English awl.

Noun

els f (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

  1. (leather working) awl
  2. (printing) bodkin
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: èls

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *elles, genitive of *elli (Middle Dutch el), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /els/

Adverb

els

  1. elsewhere

Further reading
  • “el, els”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “els”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin illōs, from ille.

Pronoun

els

  1. they (masculine, common, and indeterminate gender)

Swedish

Noun

els

  1. indefinite genitive singular of el

Anagrams

Volapük

Article

els

  1. nominative plural of el
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