egli

See also: Egli

Italian

Alternative forms

elli (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illī.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeʎ.ʎi/^[2]^[3]
- Rhymes: -eʎʎi
- Hyphenation: é‧gli
IPA^(key): (sometimes before a vowel) /eʎ/^*^[3]
- Hyphenation: egli

Pronoun

egli m (feminine ella)

(literary, subject form, animate) he
Synonyms: lui, (inanimate) esso

Usage notes

This is a more formal version of lui normally only used in written language.

Italian personal pronouns
		first	second	second formal / polite⁵	third		first	second	second formal / polite⁵	third
		singular					plural
		first	second	m or f	m	f	first	second	m or f	m	f
nominative		io	tu	Lei, Ella⁸	lui, egli⁸, elli^{3, 8}, esso⁸	lei, ella⁸, essa⁸	noi	voi, Voi⁷	Loro	loro
elli^{3, 8}, ellino^{4, 8}, eglino^{4, 8}, essi⁸	elle^{3, 8}, elleno^{4, 8}, esse⁸	io	tu	Lei, Ella⁸	lui, egli⁸, elli^{3, 8}, esso⁸	lei, ella⁸, essa⁸	noi	voi, Voi⁷	Loro
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
	dative			Le, -Le	gli, -gli	le, -le, gli², -gli²			Loro¹⁰
	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,
	oblique	me	te	Lei	lui, esso⁸	lei, essa⁸	noi	voi, Voi⁷	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), ella (animate), esso (inanimate), essa (inanimate), essi, esse 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the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.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.

References

^ egli in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
^ egli in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 egli in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

Anagrams

geli, gilè, glie

Latvian

Noun

egli f

accusative/instrumental singular of egle

[1] Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

[2] Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

[DOP-3] 3.0 ^3.1 egli in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

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