êle
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ele"
Macanese
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Portuguese ele .
Pronoun
[edit ]êle (plural ilôtro , female êla )
- third-person singular personal pronoun; he/she/they (singular)
- Êle nádi vai ― He/she/they (sg.) will not go
Usage notes
[edit ]- In general, Macanese does not make a gender distinction for the third-person singular personal pronoun, similar to Cantonese, however some speakers may use êla for "she", derived from Portuguese ela .
Derived terms
[edit ]See also
[edit ]person | pronoun | possessive | |
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singular | first | iou , io , mi *, ieu * | iou-sa , iou-sua #, minha , io-sa , io-sua # |
second | vôs | vôs-sa , vôsso , su , vôs-sua # | |
third | êle, êla * | êle-sa , su , êle-sua # | |
plural | first | nôs , nosôtro * | nôs-sa , nôsso , nôs-sua # |
second | vosôtro | vosôtro-sa , su , vosôtro-sua # | |
third | ilôtro , elôtro *, olôtro *, ulôtro * | ilôtro-sa , su , ilôtro-sua # | |
reflexive (all persons) |
onçóm | su , onçóm-sa *, onçóm-sua # |
# Dated. * Rare.
References
[edit ]Portuguese
[edit ]Pronoun
[edit ]êle (feminine ela , plural êles , feminine plural elas )
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of ele .
Sango
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]êle
- The name of the Latin-script letter L /l .
See also
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