ils

Etymology
Plural formed from.

Pronoun

 * 1) they

Etymology
, which sounded il in Old French, to which a plural -s was added. While il was the nominative form from late Latin, els, eus was the oblique form ("them") that had evolved from late Latin, and is the ancestor of modern French '.

In Old French, "they", being a nominative, was il from late Latin *illi, thus it didn't have the final -s, thus it was il used both for "he" and "they". The -s was added at the end of the 13th century in some regions, at the time the declension system of Old French started to collapse. As a consequence, some oïl languages in France have retained the original Old French il-form, and in some other regions, the ils-form supplanted the older one. Some dialects have even retained both forms depending on the locals.

See cognates in regional languages in France: 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬 and ; 🇨🇬 and ; 🇨🇬 and ; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬); 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) they
 * 2)  they