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.").
