Ellas - Wiktionary

See also: Ellas, eļļas, -ellas, and eļļās

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin illas (“those ones”). Akin to Spanish ellas and Portuguese elas.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈeʎas/
• Syllabification: e‧llas
• Rhymes: -eʎas

Pronoun

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ellas

1. they (third-person plural feminine pronoun)

Synonyms

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• els

Portuguese

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Pronoun

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ellas f pl

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of elas

Romansh

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Etymology

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From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronoun

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ellas

1. they f

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈeʝas/ [ˈe.ʝas]

• IPA(key): /ˈeʝas/ [ˈe.ʝas] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA(key): /ˈeʎas/ [ˈe.ʎas] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA(key): /ˈeʃas/ [ˈe.ʃas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA(key): /ˈeʒas/ [ˈe.ʒas] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -eʝas

• Rhymes: -eʝas (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -eʎas (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃas (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒas (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: e‧llas

Pronoun

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ellas f pl

1. they, them (used subjectively and after prepositions; can refer to women and feminine nouns)

Derived terms

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• a ellas

Related terms

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• él
• ella
• ello
• ellos

See also

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Nominative	Disjunctive	Dative	Accusative	Comitative
First-person	Singular			yo	mí	me		conmigo
	Plural	Masculine1		nosotros		nos		—
		Feminine		nosotras
Second-person	Singular	Tuteo		tú	ti	te		contigo
		Voseo		vos	—
		Formal2	Masculine1	usted		le, se3	lo
			Feminine				la
	Plural	Familiar4	Masculine1	vosotros		os
			Feminine	vosotras
		Formal/general2	Masculine1	ustedes		les, se3	los
			Feminine				las
Third-person	Singular	Masculine1		él		le, se3	lo
		Feminine		ella			la
		Neuter		ello5			lo
	Plural	Masculine1		ellos		les, se3	los
		Feminine		ellas			las
	Reflexive			—	sí	se		consigo

1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
3. 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).
4. Used primarily in Spain.
5. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

Further reading

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• “ellos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025