Le

Anglo-Norman

Article

Le m. (nominative li, lo or lou)

1. Oblique masculine singular definite article

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Breton

Noun

Le (plural leou)

1. vow

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Danish

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le

Pronunciation

• IPA: /leː/, [leːˀ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lé (“scythe”).

Noun

Le c. (singular definite Leen, plural indefinite Leer)

1. scythe (farm tool)

Inflection

    Inflection of Le

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Le	Leen	Leer	Leerne
genitive	Les	Leens	Leers	Leernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlæja (“to laugh”).

Verb

Le (imperative le, present ler, past lo, past participle leet or let)

1. laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

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French

Etymology

From Old French le, from Latin illum, by dropping il- and -m. Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /lə/

Article

Le m. (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. The (definite article).

   Le lait du matin — The milk of the morning.

   • ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.

2. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
3. (before parts of the body) The; my, your, etc.

   Il s’est cassé la jambe — He has broken his leg.

4. (before units) A, an.

   Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure — fifty kilometres an hour.

Notes

• le becomes l’ before a vowel or an unaspirated h.

  l’amour — love.

  l’homme — the man.

• de le is never used: contracted into du.
• à le is never used: contracted into au.

  Il a une cicatrice au visage — He has a scar on the face or He has a scar on his face.

Pronoun

Le m. (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. (direct object) Him, it.
2. (used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English).

   Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi — I am small and he is too ("he is it too", i.e., "he is small too").

Related terms

French personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative (subject)	Reflexive	Accusative (direct complement)	Dative (indirect complement)	Locative (at)	Genitive (of)	Disjunctive (tonic)
Singular	First	—	je, j'	me, m'			—	—	moi
	Second	—	tu, t'	te, t'			—	—	toi
	Third	Masculine	il	se, s'	le, l'	lui	y	en	lui
		Feminine	elle		la, l'				elle
		—	on		—	—	—	—	soi
Plural	First	—	nous	nous			—	—	nous
	Second	—	vous	vous			—	—	vous
	Third	Masculine	ils	se, s'	les	leur	y	en	eux
		Feminine	elles						elles

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Galician

Verb

Le

1. third-person singular present indicative of ler
2. second-person singular imperative of ler

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɛ/

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Adverb

Le

1. down

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Ido

Article

Le (plural)

1. the (used only when there is no other sign of plurality, for example with nominalized adjectives)

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Interlingua

Article

Le

1. the

Notes

• de le is contracted into del.
• a le is contracted into al.

Pronoun

Le m. (plural les)

1. him (direct object)

   Io le appella mi amico — I call him my friend.

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [lʲɛ]

Preposition

Le

1. with

Inflection

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	liom	liomsa
2d person sing.	leat	leatsa
3d sing. masc.	leis	leis-sean
3d sing. fem.	léi	léise
1st person pl.	linn	linne
2d person pl.	libh	libhse
3d person pl.	leo	leosan

Usage notes

Prefixes h to a following vowel-initial word.

• le héadach – "with clothing"

Used in conjunction with the copula particle is to indicate possession:

• 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"

Alternative forms

Form used before definite article: leis, as leis an mbuachaill "with the boy", leis na cailíní "with the girls".

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin illae, which is the nominative plural feminine of ille.

Article

Italian Definite Articles
	singular	plural
masculine	il lo	i gli
feminine	la	le

Le f. pl. (singular la)

1. the

Notes

• Contrary to la, le does not elide before words that begin with a vowel.

Pronoun

Le f. pl. (singular la)

1. (third-person plural feminine) them

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Le

1. (dative) her, to her

   Le ho detto che la amo — I told her that I love her.

   Le ho dato la lettera — I gave her the letter or I gave the letter to her

2. (formal, dative) you, to you

   Le ho detto il mio nome — I told you my name

   Le ho dato la lettera — I gave you the letter or I gave the letter to you

Notes

• When le is used in the formal sense, it is usually capitalised as Le to avoid confusion with le meaning "her".

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Cmavo

Le

1. refers to the x₁ sumti of the following word and indicates that the thing the speaker talks about in the following word is just called that way by the speaker and is not necessarily really the thing that is usually described by the word; in other words, le followed by a brivla "returns" a specific instance of that brivla, not the entire class represented by that brivla, and it also prevents that brivla from acting like a selbri

Related terms

• lo
• la
• li

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Mandarin

Suffix

Le (traditional and simplified 了)

1. past-tense suffix; a suffix indicating completed action

   chàngle yī shǒu gē.

   Sang a song.

Example sentences (indicating completed action)

wo zhi qingle yi wei keren. I invited only one guest. Zhongguo Sichuan fashengle qianglie dizhen. Zhōngguó Sìchuān fāshēngle qiángliè dìzhèn. 中国四川发生了强烈地震. A strong earthquake has happened in Sichuan, China. ta zhongyu jiejuele yunshu de kunnan. She/he finally solved the difficulty of transportation. wo wenle ni yige wenti, danshi ni meiyou huida. I asked you a question, but you didn't answer. women shangliangle xujiu. We talked it over for a long time. zuijin tamen faxianle yi-ke huixing. Recently they have discovered a comet. Fang jiaoshou xiang3chu1le yige banfa lai xiaomie zhongzi shang de xijun. Professor Fang worked out a method to destroy bacteria on the seeds. ta renzhen de jianchale dazigao, paichule suoyou de cuowu. She/he went through the typescript carefully to eliminate all errors from it. xueshengmen zai bugaopai shang tiele yi-zhang haibao. The students put up a poster on the bulletin board. zhe-ci diaocha bijiaole butong guojia de jiage. the survey compares prices in different countries. shuji turan likaile huiyishi. The secretary abruptly left the conference room. zuotian, tamen canguanle yige xiandai meishu zhanlan. they visited an exhibition of modern art yesterday. wo yijing jueding le. I have decided. wo wangjile dangshi ta shuole shenme. I forgot what she/he said at that time. ni mǎile shenme cài? what food for making dish have you bought? ni mǎile shenme sòngcài? what food for making dish have you bought? ba miaor zaicha zhi le. the young plant has been transplanted vertically.

Derived terms

• Category:Mandarin words derived from: le (suffix) Etymology 了

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

Particle

Le (Pinyin le, traditional and simplified 了)

1. a modality word (indicating a new situation)

   tài yíhàn le!

   What a pitty!

   rúguǒ nǐ yǒushì dehuà, jiù bùyào lái le.

   Don't come if you are busy.

   ta huaiyun le.

   She is pregnant.

Example sentences (indicating a new situation)

zhege diqu you hen duo shumu bei kanfa le. There are many trees have been felled in this area. Mao Zedong yú 1976 nian 9 yue 9 ri shìshì le. Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976. zhe fen yizhu bei cuangai le. this will has been falsified. hao le! It's O.K. now. ta yòu lai le! she/he come again! huoche dao le! the train is coming/approaching! huoche yijing dao le! the train has already arrived! zhongxue biye zhihou ta jiu gongzuo le. after graduated from secondary school then she/he went to work.

Derived terms

• haole
• wo bixu zou le

See also

• -le

Pronunciation

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Pinyin

Le (form of le0 or le5)

1. 餎:
2. 饹:
3. 了: to finish; aspect particle of completed action

   (indicating a new situation) Hǎo le — It’s okay now.

   (indicating completed action) Wǒ zhǐ qǐngle yī wèi kèren — I invited only one guest.

Pinyin syllable

le

1. Nonstandard spelling of lē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lé.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lè.

Notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

External links

• Google links: "le" pinyin
• Google links: "le5" pinyin

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Meriam

Etymology

Rotuman

Noun

Le

1. person

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Middle French

Article

Le m. (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. the

Descendants

• French: le

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Norwegian

Verb

Le

1. to laugh

Conjugation

    Conjugation of Le in Bokmål</small>

Infinitive active	Le
Infinitive passive	Les
Present active	Ler
Present passive	Les
Past	lo
Present participle	leende
Past participle	ledd
Imperative	le

    Conjugation of Le in Nynorsk</small>

Infinitive active	Le
Infinitive passive	least
Present	ler
Past	lo
Present participle	leande
Past participle	ledd/lett
Imperative	le

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Old French

Article

Le

1. the (masculine singular oblique definite article)
2. (Picardy) the (feminine singular definite article)

Inflection

Declension of the definite article le

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
nominative	li	la, le 1	li	les
oblique	le 1	la 1	les	les
1 These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non-aspirate h.

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Romanian

Pronoun

Le

1. third-person, feminin, plural, accusative

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lʲɛ/

Preposition

Le

1. with
2. by
3. down

   thuit e leis a' chreig - he fell down the rock

   deòir a' ruith leis a h-aodann - eyes running down her face

Notes

• This form is used before nouns without the definite article; before the definite article the form leis is used.

Derived terms

• leis an t-sruth
• The following prepositional pronouns:

Combining pronoun	Prepositional pronoun	Prepositional pronoun (emphatic)
mi	leam	leamsa
tu	leat	leatsa
e	leis	leis-san
i	leatha	leathase
sinn	leinn	leinne
sibh	leibh	leibhse
iad	leotha	leothasan

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Slovene

Adverb

Le

1. only

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin ille.

Pronoun

Le

1. To him, for him (dative form of él)

   Mi mamá va a escribirle una carta a mi hermano. — My mom is going to write a letter to my brother.

2. To her, for her (dative form of ella)

   Le dio un beso a Ana. — He gave Ana a kiss.

3. To you, for you (dative form of usted, ello, lo)

   ¿A usted le gustan los caballos? — Do you like horses?

Notes

Though le is usually the indirect object form of the direct object pronouns lo/la, it is often used as a direct object as well...e.g., «yo le creo» (I believe him/her); «le gusta...» (he/she likes...). Note that when a sentence contains a noun that is an indirect object, a redundant indirect object le (or its plural form les) is also required; for example «yo le daré el libro a Jorge» (literally, "I will give him the book to Jorge"), where him/le corresponds to Jorge. This type of pronoun is obligatory. Both of the object pronouns le and les become se when followed by the direct object lo/la/los/las; hence, «yo se lo daré» (I will give it/them to him/her/them) rather than «yo le/les lo daré».

See also

• Spanish pronouns

    Spanish pronouns</small>

First person: singular: yo, mí, me plural: nosotros, nosotras, nos Second person: tuteo: tú, ti, te voseo: vos, te formal: usted, ustedes, le, les familiar plural: vosotros, vosotras, ustedes, os, les

Third person: masculine: él, ellos, lo, le, los, les feminine: ella, ellas, la, le, las, les neuter: ello, lo, le Demonstrative: este, esta, esto, estos, estas ese, esa, eso, esos, esas aquel, aquella, aquello, aquellos, aquellas

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish leia, lea, from Old Norse hlæja (“to laugh”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahjanan.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /leː/

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Verb

Le

1. to smile
2. to laugh

Conjugation

Conjugation of Le

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	Le	—
Present tense	ler	—
Past tense	log	—
Supine	lett	—
Imperative	le	—
Present participle	Leende
Past participle	—

Derived terms

• småle

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Xhosa

Pronunciation

• /lɛ/

Adjective

le (Class iii/iv)

1. these

Adjective

le (Class ix/x)

1. this

Related terms

• leyo
• leyayaar:le