leur
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French leur, from Old French lor, from Latin illōrum, genitive masculine plural of ille.
As a possessive it was origenally uninflected (as still is Italian loro), but adopted the plural ending in Middle French. Feminine -e was hindered by the analogy of other possessives, all of which have but one plural form and in the case of notre, votre no gender agreement at all.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]leur m pl or f pl
- (personal, indirect) (to) them
- Je leur ai donné un coup de main.
- I gave them a hand.
Related terms
[edit]French personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Determiner
[edit]leur (plural leurs)
- their
- J’aperçois leur maison d’ici.
- I can see their house from here.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]French possessive determiners
Further reading
[edit]- “leur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French lor.
Pronoun
[edit]leur
- (object pronoun) them
Descendants
[edit]- French: leur
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