Dictionaries › French

lui

Pronunciation: /lɥi/

“lui” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

pronoun

  1. him, he, it; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject
  2. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object

In French

  1. Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du singulier épicène du complément d’objet indirect.
  2. Pronom tonique de la troisième personne du singulier masculin.
  3. Quant à lui par contre.

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “lui” there

More French words

About this dictionary

The French dictionary on Glottosphere has 298,912 entries with a page. Browse the French dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in French are from the French Wiktionary, under the same licence.