alle

See also: allé, Alle, and -alle

Languages (20)

Afrikaans • Albanian • Danish • Dutch • Estonian • Finnish • French • German • Ingrian • Italian • Lule Sami • Makasar • Middle Dutch • Middle English • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyunga • Swedish • Veps • West Frisian

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Adjective

alle

1. attributive form of al

Albanian

Etymology

From all (“shining color”) +‎ -e.

Noun

alle f

1. deep red color
2. goat, cow, or mare with deep red hair

Related terms

• kuq (“red”)
• dhi (“goat”)
• lopë (“cow”)
• pelë (“mare”)
• dori (“red horse”)

Further reading

• “alle”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
• “alle”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “alle”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Danish

Etymology 1

See al (“all”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alə/, [ˈælə]

Pronoun

alle

1. plural of al

Etymology 2

See allé (“avenue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aleː/, [æˈleːˀ]

Noun

alle c

1. alternative spelling of allé

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch alle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.lə/

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• Hyphenation: al‧le

Determiner

alle

1. inflection of al:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Pronoun

alle (personal plural allen)

1. all (every individual of the given class)

Derived terms

• allebei
• alledag
• allemaal
• allerhande
• allerlei

Estonian

Noun

alle

1. illative singular of ale

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *allëk, now analyzed as the consonant-stem allative of the stem ala- (“lower, below”). alle is not attested in Agricola's texts (which instead use ala < *ala-k). alle seems to first be attested short of a century later in 1621.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːeˣ/, [ˈɑ̝lːe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːe
• Syllabification^(key): al‧le
• Hyphenation^(key): al‧le

Preposition

alle

1. under, less than (+ number)

   Antonym: yli

   Auto maksoi alle 200 000 [kaksisataa tuhatta] euroa.

   The car cost less than 200,000 euros.

Postposition

alle [with genitive and/or possessive form]

1. (to) under, underneath, below, beneath (when something moves under something else)

   Synonym: alapuolelle

   Antonyms: päälle, ylle, yläpuolelle

   Pallo meni pöydän alle. ― The ball went under the table.

2. (of result, figuratively, often informal) under (subject to)

   vihollisen vallan alle ― (to) under enemy control

Usage notes

• (under, subject to): This is in many cases considered informal due to representing foreign influence, although some uses are accepted.

Inflection

Declension of ala- noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative ala- – superessive alhaalla – genitive – – delative alhaalta – partitive – – sublative alhaalle – accusative – – lative alas – inessive – – temporal – – elative – – causative – – illative – – multiplicative – – adessive alla – distributive – – ablative alta – temp. dist. – – allative alle – prolative ali alitse – essive – – situative allekkain (alakkain) – translative – – oppositive alatusten – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

Personal/possessive forms of alle
no possessor	alle
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	alleni	allemme
2nd person	allesi	allenne
3rd person	alleen allensa

Derived terms

• allekkain
• alletusten

compounds

• allekirjoittaa
• alleviivata

Related terms

• ala-
• alempana
• alempi
• alhainen
• alimmainen
• alimmas
• alin

• See the inflection table above.

Further reading

• “alle”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

• -ella, Ella

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Pronoun

alle f

1. (North America) she (third-person singular feminine)

   Synonym: elle

References

• LaFleur, Amanda, "Subject Pronouns and Verb Forms in Cajun French", Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University, 2002.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalə/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -alə

Pronoun

alle

1. inflection of all (“all”):
   1. nominative/accusative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative plural
   • 1981, “Alle gegen Alle”, in Alles ist gut, performed by D.A.F.:

     Links den roten Blitz / Rechts den schwarzen Stern / Alle gegen alle

     On the left the red lightning / On the right the black star / All against everyone

Determiner

alle

1. inflection of all (“all”):
   1. nominative/accusative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Adjective

alle (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. (colloquial) finished; gone

   Synonyms: aus, (chiefly referring to food) auf, (in context of drinks) leer

   Die Milch ist alle. ― The milk is gone.

   Wir haben gestern das Bier alle gemacht. ― Yesterday we have depleted the beer.

   Akku ist alle. ― The battery is flat.

Ingrian

Spatial inflection of alle

↗︎○	allative	alle
○	adessive	al
○↘︎	ablative	alt

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alëk. Cognates include Finnish alle and Veps alle.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːe/, [ˈɑɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːe/, [ˈɑɫːe̞]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːek/, [ˈɑɫːe̞ɡ̊]
• Rhymes: -ɑlː, -ɑlːe
• Hyphenation: al‧le
• Homophone: al

Adverb

alle

1. (of motion) under, underneath

Postposition

alle (+ genitive)

1. (of motion) under, underneath
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 136:

     Kissa mäni aitan alle.

     The cat went underneath the storehouse.

Antonyms

• päälle (“onto”)

References

• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 136
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 13
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 19
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[5], →ISBN, page 70

Italian

Limone Piemonte, Province of Cuneo, Italy

Etymology

a +‎ le

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.le/
• Rhymes: -alle
• Hyphenation: àl‧le

Contraction

alle

1. contraction of a le; to the, at the

Anagrams

• -ella, Ella, ella

Lule Sami

Etymology 1

From Proto-Samic *ëlē, from Proto-Uralic *wülä.

Adverb

alle

1. west, western

Further reading

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

alˈle

1. second-person dual imperative of ij

Makasar

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalːe/, [ˈal.lɛ]
• Hyphenation: al‧le

Noun

alle (Lontara spelling ᨕᨒᨙ or 𑻱𑻮𑻵, definite allea)

1. a catch; something caught or obtained

   Alle pukaʼ ― The catch of a seine net.

Verb

alle (Lontara spelling ᨕᨒᨙ or 𑻱𑻮𑻵, semi-transitive anngalle, passive nialle)

1. (transitive) to take; to take away

   Anngalleaʼ baju rilamaria

   I take a shirt from the cupboard.

2. (transitive) to fetch; to pick up

   Naallei rolong andiʼna risikolanna

   He picks up his younger sibling at school first.

3. (transitive) to get; to obtain

   Battui anngalle jeʼneʼ ― He comes to get water.

4. (transitive) to harvest

   Anngalle ase ― To harvest rice.

5. (transitive) to catch (an animal)

   Jai jonga nialle ― Many deer are caught.

6. (transitive) to capture; to seize (a fort or territory)

   Anjo kotaya leʼbaʼmi nialle

   The fort has already been captured.

7. (transitive) to receive (e.g., mystical teachings)
8. (transitive) to record; to input; to count

   Anngallei bilanna

   To count the number of it.

9. (transitive) to believe; to accept (someone's words)
10. (transitive) to adopt; to appoint; to consider as

    Kualleko anaʼ ― I adopt you as a child.

11. (intransitive) to withdraw; to pass away

    Naallemi kalenna ― He has passed away (literally: he has withdrawn himself).

12. (transitive) to retract; to take back

    Anngallei kananna ― He retracts his words.

13. (transitive) to accommodate; to occupy

    Anngalle ballaʼ ritaua

    To occupy someone's house; to lodge in someone's house.

14. (transitive) to snatch; to take by force

    Naallengaseng apa-apangku

    He snatches everything from me.

15. (intransitive) to attack

    Anngalle riboko ― To attack from behind.

16. (intransitive) to take time

    Naallemi bulang battanna

    Her pregnancy has taken several months.

17. (intransitive, adverbial) to approach; almost

    Anngalle-tanngallomi nakuʼlampa

    It was almost midday when I left.

Derived terms

affixations

• alleang
• alleanngang
• allèi
• anngalle
• katarallèi
• palle
• panngalle
• panngalleang
• panngallèi
• pasialle
• pasialleang
• pataralle
• pialleiang
• piallèi
• sialle
• sialleang
• siallèi
• taralle
• àllei

reduplications

• anngalle-alle
• pitialle-allèi

Further reading

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle Dutch

Determiner

alle

1. inflection of al:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Adjective

alle

1. plural of all
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew.

     And with all these men I was often familiar and I communed with them a long and profitable time, and so before all other men I chose willfully to be informed by them and of them, and especially of Wycliffe himself, as of the most virtuous and godly wise man that I heard of anywhere or knew.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlə/
• (Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈɑ̂lːə̌]

Determiner

alle

1. plural of all

Pronoun

alle (genitive alles)

1. everybody, everyone

   Dette gjelder alle. ― This applies to everybody.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²al.lə/, /²aʎ.ʎə/
• IPA^(key): /²ad.lə/ (differentiation) (re-spelled as adle)
• IPA^(key): /aʎː/ (dialectal apocope and palatalization) (re-spelled as aill or aillj. Homophone with all)

Adjective

alle

1. plural of all

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈleː/

Noun

alle m (definite singular alleen, indefinite plural allear, definite plural alleane)

1. alternative spelling of allé

References

• “alle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ella, Ella, lale

Nyunga

Alternative forms

• alla

Preposition

alle

1. that
   • Papers of Daisy Bates, National Library of Australia, MS 365, Section XII, Language: Grammar And Vocabularies, Part 2. B. 3. (a), Southwestern District, Jakbum & Wabbinyet of Albany:

     alle werra (that is no good)

References

• 1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)

Swedish

Pronoun

alle

1. (dated) a 19th century (-e/-a ending) form of alla

   alle man till pumparna

   all men to the pumps

Anagrams

• Ella

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Finnish alle.

Postposition

alle

1. under, underneath (movement to)

Derived terms

• allekirjutada

Related terms

• al
• alpäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “под”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[7], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian al, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”).

Determiner

alle

1. all