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lui.

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

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Meaning & usage

pron/lɥi//lwi/Belgium
  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

    masculine
    J'habitais avec lui.
    C'est lui qui a dit cela.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

pron/lɥi//lwi/Belgium
  1. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object

    feminine · masculine
    Je lui ai donné le livre.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

verb/lɥi//lwi/Belgium
  1. past participle of luire

    form-of · intransitive · participle · past
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