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Le Latin
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Waiter : ' Bonjour ! I am le waiter on this ship! [...] Ah! Le strong silent type!'
[ … ] upon arrival, le girlfriend realizes she has left her ID back at my house (a 1 1/2 hour roundtrip on the Metro), [ … ]
And then le boyfriend perks up and names around 8 different brands (Stila, MAC, Becca, Nars etc..) - I was *SO* proud of him!! :)
That was always OUR song (me and le girlfriend of the time).
That's when Waitress Seductress Extraordinaire comes back and gets our order. [ … ] "We're sharing an order of à la Appalachia, he says, handing over the menus and turning his focus back to me. Le waitress stomps off. I ask, "Why are they called that?" "Because when they've got the fries stacked up they're higher than a mountain range." I groan and touch my stomach. "You're funny," he says, his eyes twinkling.
Chester- le -Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road.
^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “ le ”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary , Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN , page 215
^ Camarda, Demetrio (1864) Saggio di grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese (in Italian), Livorno: Successore di Egisto Vignozzi, page 255
^ Gjergj Pekmezi (1908)Grammar of the Albanian language, transl., Grammatik der albanesischen Sprache (in german), Albanesicher Verein Dija (Albanian Association Dija), Wien - Austria, page 76-77
^ Ernst Fraenkel (1962)Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, transl., Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in german), C. Winter, page 329
^ Çabej, Eqrem (1976), “ le ”, in Studime Gjuhësore II, Studime Etimologjike në Fushë të Shqipes , Prishtinë: Rilindja, page 3120
^ Mann, Stuart E. (1977) An Albanian Historical Grammar [1] , Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, →ISBN , page 137
^ Stuart Edward Mann (1932) A Short Albanian Grammar with Vocabularies, and Selected Passages for Reading , D. Nutt (A.G. Berry), pages 34, 40
Le lait du matin. ― The milk of the morning.
Il s’est cassé la jambe. ― He has broken his leg.
Cinquante kilomètres à l’ heure. ― fifty kilometres an hour
Il a une cicatrice au visage. ― He has a scar on the face. / He has a scar on his face.
Je suis petit et lui, il l’ est aussi. ― I am small and he is too (literally, “ ... and he is it too ”)
^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “le, la, les”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Yen pomi, prenez le bona e lasez le mala. Here's apples, take the good ones and leave the bad ones .
Is liomsa an hata ― The hat is mine; the hat belongs to me
Is le Cáit an peann luaidhe. ― The pencil is Cáit’s; the pencil belongs to Cáit.
Is é dúirt sí liom “ní bhfaighidh tú deor. / Buail an bóthar is gabh abhaile.” And what she said to me was, “you won’t get a drop. / Hit the road and go home.”
le rud a dhéanamh ― in order to do a thing
show ▼ Irish preposition contractions
Le ho detto che la amo. ― I told her that I love her.
Le ho dato la lettera. ― I gave her the letter.
Non le ho detto il mio nome. ― I didn't tell you my name.
Le ho dato la lettera. ― I gave you the letter.
^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN , page 127
↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 “le” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “ læ ”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog , Oslo: Samlaget , published 2000
^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “ læja ”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog , Oslo: Samlaget , published 2000
show ▼ Old French definite articles
Thuit e leis a' chreig. ― He fell down the rock.
deòir a' ruith leis a h-aodann ― tears running down her face
Mi mamá va a escribir le una carta. ― My mom is going to write him a letter.
Le dio un beso a Ana. ― He gave Ana a kiss.
¡Pon le esfuerzo! ― Put some effort into it!
¿A usted le gustan los caballos? ― Do you like horses?
Le diré que te llame. ― I will tell them to call you.
Not used with con ; conmigo , contigo , and consigo are used instead, respectively
Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
If le or les precedes lo , la , los , or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije )
Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
Used primarily in Spain
Used only in rare circumstances
show ▼ Conjugation of le (class 6 strong)
Ó lè gbọ́ Yorùbá. ― She can understand Yoruba.
Iṣẹ́ náà le bí ojú ẹja. ― The work is as hard as a fish's eye.
ṣe ará le o? ― Are you in good health ?
eré-ìmárale ( “ exercise ” )
kára ó le ( “ A Yoruba greeting meaning, may you always be in good health! ” )
líle ( “ to be hard ” )
Ọtí yìí le . ― This beer is strong .
Wọ́n bí Àlàbá lé Ìdòwú. ― Alaba was born right after Idowu.
Wọ́n lé e nílèékulèé, òun náà sàsàákúsàá. ― They pursued him relentlessly, and he also ran relentlessly.
Marks the speaker as pretending to be stereotypically French.
Jussive particle le ( “ let ” ) corresponds with 2nd person/singular Aorist form of Albanian lë ( “ I let/leave (go/behind) ” ) ; le ( “ you let/left (go/behind) ” ) . From Proto-Albanian *laide ( “ let ” ) . [1] Identical to Baltic permissive and optative particles Latvian lai ( “ to let ” ) , Lithuanian laĩ , Old Prussian -lai . [2] [3] [4] [5]
Cognate to Albanian lihem ( “ I am left; allowed ” ) (Standard & Tosk ), Gheg Albanian lêhem , lêna (passive forms of active lë ). [6] [7]
le ( first-person singular past tense láshë , participle lënë )
From Latin ille ( “ that one ” ) .
le ( alternative form lou , feminine lai , plural les )
From Latin illae , feminine plural of ille ( “ that ” ) , from Old Latin olle . Cognates include Italian le ( “ the, them ” ) and French les ( “ the, them ” ) .
From Latin illae , nominative feminine plural of ille .
From Old Norse lé ( “ scythe ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *lewô , cognate with Norwegian ljå and Swedish lie .
le c ( singular definite leen , plural indefinite leer )
le ( imperative le , present ler , past lo , past participle leet or let )
From Middle French le , from Old French le , from Latin illum , by dropping il- and -m . Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille . [1]
le m ( feminine la , neuter lea , masculine and feminine plural les )
le m ( feminine la , masculine and feminine plural les )
le ( third person feminine direct object )
This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with le- , occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni ( “ they could have seen it ” , from megnéz ) . For verbs with this prefix, see le- ; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes .
From a conflation of two Early Modern Irish prepositions:
le ( plus dative , triggers h -prothesis , before the definite article leis )
From Latin illae , which is the nominative plural feminine of ille . [1]
Contrary to la , le does not elide before words that begin with a vowel:
le f pl ( masculine li , singular la )
From Vulgar Latin *illae , a nonstandard form of Latin illī (dative singular of illa ). The ae in illae is modelled under influence of the dative case for first-declension feminine nouns, e.g. Classical puellae .
From Arabic لَا ( lā ) . Cognate with Hebrew לא ( lō ) .
le m ( feminine la , masculine and feminine plural les )
le ( imperative le , present tense ler , passive - , simple past lo , past participle ledd , present participle leende )
From Old Norse hlæja ( “ to laugh ” ) , [1] from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną , from the Proto-Indo-European root *klel- , *kleg- ( “ to shout ” ) . Akin to English laugh .
le ( present tense ler , past tense lo , supine ledd or lett , past participle ledd , present participle leande , imperative le )
le n ( definite singular leet , indefinite plural le , definite plural lea )
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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le ( demonstrative , Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ )
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le ( demonstrative , Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ )
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le ( demonstrative , Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ )
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le ( demonstrative , Perso-Arabic spelling لےۡ )
From Latin illīs , dative common plural of ille .
le m ( unstressed dative form of ei )
le f ( unstressed dative form of ele )
le m ( unstressed accusative form of ele )
Only in the singular. Sometimes used where the indefinite article would be used in English.
From Old Irish la . Cognates include Irish leath and Manx lesh .
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From Latin illī , dative of ille .
le ( present ler , preterite log , supine lett , imperative le )
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When a word is homophonous with the verb 'lé'; it always occurs in a non-V1 position.
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la , La 1 , l' , L' 1 , -la , -La 1
vi , Vi 4 , v' , V' 4 , -vi , -Vi 4
gli , -gli , loro ( formal ) , Loro 1
Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
Often replaced by gli , -gli in informal language.
Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous ).
la , La 1 , l' , L' 1 , -la , -La 1
vi , Vi 4 , v' , V' 4 , -vi , -Vi 4
gli , -gli , loro ( formal ) , Loro 1
Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
Often replaced by gli , -gli in informal language.
Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous ).
1 These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non- aspirate h .
Cardinal : le Ordinal : wa le
L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; N Triggers eclipsis; 1) Used before b- , f- , m- or p-
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs .
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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