"il" meaning in French

See il in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Pronoun

IPA: /il/, /i/ [informal], /i/ [Quebec, informal] (note: preconsonantal), /j/ [Quebec, informal] (note: prevocalic) Audio: Fr-il.ogg Forms: ils [plural], le [accusative], lui [dative], lui [emphatic], son [determiner, possessive]
Rhymes: -il Etymology: From Middle French il, from Old French il, from Late Latin illī. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|il}} Middle French il, {{inh|fr|fro|il}} Old French il, {{inh|fr|LL.|illī}} Late Latin illī Head templates: {{head|fr|pronoun|third-person singular||plural|ils|accusative|le|dative|lui|emphatic|lui|possessive determiner|son|cat2=personal pronouns|g=m}} il m (third-person singular, plural ils, accusative le, dative lui, emphatic lui, possessive determiner son)
  1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) Tags: masculine, singular, third-person
    Sense id: en-il-fr-pron-Tx9bPx7I
  2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) Tags: masculine, singular, third-person
    Sense id: en-il-fr-pron-y5qKLweH
  3. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it Tags: impersonal, masculine, pronoun, singular, third-person
    Sense id: en-il-fr-pron-850oyDzp Categories (other): Pages with entries, Yucatec Maya entries with incorrect language header, French entries with incorrect language header, French personal pronouns, French pronouns Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 6 5 0 2 4 3 0 1 3 3 6 3 5 3 3 5 1 0 3 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 0 0 0 6 5 4 0 0 Disambiguation of Yucatec Maya entries with incorrect language header: 2 5 3 0 3 3 2 0 2 4 4 11 2 3 2 5 7 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 2 4 4 3 2 3 0 0 1 7 3 3 0 0 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 23 24 53 Disambiguation of French personal pronouns: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of French pronouns: 26 27 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: je, j’, me, m’, , moi, tu, te, t’, toi, le, l’, lui, y, en, elle, la, on1, se, s’4, soi4, nous, vous2, 3, ils3, les, leur, eux3, 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
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          "english": "He left.",
          "text": "Il est parti.",
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      "ipa": "/il/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/i/",
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    },
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      "ipa": "/i/",
      "note": "preconsonantal",
      "tags": [
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      "note": "prevocalic",
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "île"
    },
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    },
    {
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          "english": "He left.",
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