leur
French
Etymology
From Old French lor, from Latin illōrum, genitive masculine plural of ille.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
leur
- (personal, direct) them
- (personal, indirect) to them
- Je leur ai donné un coup de main.
- I gave them a hand.
- Je leur ai donné un coup de main.
Related terms
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui, soi | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle, soi | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux, soi | |
| Feminine | elles | elles, soi | |||||||
Determiner
leur
- (possessive) their
- Je peux voir leur maison d'ici.
- I can see their house from here.
- Je peux voir leur maison d'ici.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Further reading
- “leur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French lor.
Pronoun
leur
- (object pronoun) them
Descendants
- French: leur
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