elles

/ɛl/elle
1.
pronounfemininePlur3

they (third-person plural referring to feminine nouns or to a group of females); used as subject or as a disjunctive/stressed pronoun

Elles sont parties hier soir.

They left last night.

Notes

GENERAL INFO

Elles means "they" (feminine plural). It is a subject pronoun.

USAGE

Use elles to refer to two or more females or a group of exclusively feminine nouns.

For example: "Les femmes sont parties. Elles sont rentrées." (The women left. They came home.)

GRAMMAR

Elles requires verbs to be conjugated in the third-person plural.

Any adjectives describing the group must be feminine and plural (e.g., "Elles sont belles et intelligentes.").