les

Braereth

Pronunciation & Variants

Official	Classical	Tenibvreth	Eomentesa	Merineth
/les/	[les]	[les] ⟪les⟫	[le̞s] ⟨les⟩	[lis] ⧼lis⧽

Etymology

From Latin illae

Cognates & Comparisons

• las (Spanish)
• les (Catalan)
• les (French)
• le (Italian)
• -le (Romanian)

Determiner

les

1. the

   The feminine plural definite article.

Declension

	The Definite Article (“the”)			The Indefinite Article (“a, an, some”)
	Masculine	Feminine		Masculine	Feminine
Singular	lu, l’*	la, l’*		un, n’*	una, n’*
Plural	lis	les		unis	unes

* Form used before a vowel.

Coordinate Terms

• lis ‘the (masculine plural)’