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Ella
Ella
English
Proper noun
Ella
- A female given name.
- 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter XLII:
- She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls,
- 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter XLII:
Related terms
Translations
female given name
Anagrams
Faroese
Proper noun
Ella f
- A female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Ella: Elluson
- daughter of Ella: Elludóttir
Declension
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Ella |
| Accusative | Ellu |
| Dative | Ellu |
| Genitive | Ellu |
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈelːɑ]
- Hyphenation: El‧la
Proper noun
Ella
- A female given name, similar to English Ella.
Declension
| Inflection of Ella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Ella | Ellat | |
| genitive | Ellan | Ellojen | |
| partitive | Ellaa | Elloja | |
| illative | Ellaan | Elloihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Ella | Ellat | |
| accusative | nom. | Ella | Ellat |
| gen. | Ellan | ||
| genitive | Ellan | Ellojen Ellainrare |
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| partitive | Ellaa | Elloja | |
| inessive | Ellassa | Elloissa | |
| elative | Ellasta | Elloista | |
| illative | Ellaan | Elloihin | |
| adessive | Ellalla | Elloilla | |
| ablative | Ellalta | Elloilta | |
| allative | Ellalle | Elloille | |
| essive | Ellana | Elloina | |
| translative | Ellaksi | Elloiksi | |
| instructive | — | Elloin | |
| abessive | Ellatta | Elloitta | |
| comitative | — | Elloineen | |
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Anagrams
Swedish
Proper noun
Ella
- A female given name, similar to English Ella. Also a contraction of Edla.
Related terms
ella
ella
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Provençal elha, ela, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈeʎə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈeʎa/
Pronoun
ella plural elles
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
Italian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈelːa/, [ˈel̺.l̺ä]
- Hyphenation: él‧la
Pronoun
ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)
- (literary) she (subject form)
Usage notes
- The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favour of the oblique form lei.
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /ˈeʎa/
- (ll-y neutralization) IPA(key): /ˈeʝa/
- (Rioplatense) IPA(key): /ˈeʒa/, /ˈeʃa/
Pronoun
ella (plural ellas)
- she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
- it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Related terms
See also
Spanish personal pronouns
| nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
| plural | masc. | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
| fem. | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
| second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
| voseo | vos | vos | |||||
| formal2 | usted | le | lo/la3 | usted | |||
| plural | familiar4 | masc. | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
| fem. | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
| formal/general2 | ustedes | les | los/las3 | ustedes | |||
| third person | singular | masc. | él | le | lo | él | |
| fem. | ella | la | ella | ||||
| neut. | ello5 | lo/la3 | ello | ||||
| plural | masc. | ellos | les | los | ellos | ||
| fem. | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
| sing. & pl. | reflexive | — | se | sí1 | |||
- 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.
- 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")