Le
See also: Appendix:Variations of "le"
English
Etymology
- As a Chinese surname:
- As a Vietnamese surname, variant of Lê and Lệ.
Proper noun
Le (plural Les)
- A surname.
Translations
Vietnamese surname
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Le is the 277th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 110967 individuals. Le is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (95.59%) individuals.
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Lê.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɛ]
Proper noun
Le m anim (female equivalent Leová)
- a surname from Vietnamese
Declension
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “Le”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Lê.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lə/
Audio (France): (file)
Proper noun
Le m or f
- a surname from Vietnamese
Italian
Pronoun
Le f
- (formal) alternative letter-case form of le (“you”)
- Nel ringraziarLa per la Sua risposta, Le porgo i miei distinti saluti. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
See also
| singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | second formal / polite5 | third | first | second | second formal / polite5 | third | |||||
| m or f | m | f | m or f | m | f | |||||||
| nominative | io | tu | Lei, Ella8 | lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8 | lei, ella8, essa8 | noi | voi, Voi7 | Loro | loro | |||
| elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8 | elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8 | |||||||||||
| atonic (clitic)11 | accusative / dative-reflexive | mi, m', -mi, me9 | ti, t', -ti, te9 | ― | si6, s', -si, se9 | ci, c', -ci, ce9 | vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9 | ― | si, s', -si, se9 | |||
| accusative | La, -La, L' | lo, l', -lo, il4 | la, l', -la | Le, -Le | li, -li | le, -le | ||||||
| dative | Le, -Le | glie9 | Loro10 | loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9 | ||||||||
| gli, -gli | le, -le, gli2, -gli2 | |||||||||||
| locative | ― | ci, c', vi1, v'1 |
― | ci, c', vi1, v'1 | ||||||||
| partitive | ne, n' | ne, n' | ||||||||||
| tonic12 | prepositional-reflexive | ― | sé | ― | sé | |||||||
| oblique | me | te | Lei | lui, esso8 | lei, essa8 | noi | voi, Voi7 | Loro | loro, | |||
| essi8 | elle8, esse8 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Formal. | |||||||||||
| 2 | Informal. | |||||||||||
| 3 | Archaic. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Obsolete. | |||||||||||
| 5 | Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | |||||||||||
| 6 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | |||||||||||
| 7 | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | |||||||||||
| 8 | Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro. | |||||||||||
| 9 | Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne). | |||||||||||
| 10 | Used after verbs. | |||||||||||
| 11 | Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.). | |||||||||||
| 12 | Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms. | |||||||||||