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lui

French, pronoun/lɥi/

lui is spelled L-U-I (3 letters) and appears 1,585 times per million words in written French, the 71st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lui is a French masculine pronoun meaning “him, he, it; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of luire. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du singulier épicène du complément d’objet indirect”.

What does lui mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    masculinehim, 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

    J'habitais avec lui.

pronoun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinehim, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object

    Je lui ai donné le livre.

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of luire

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

pronoun: 1. Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du singulier épicène du complément d’objet indirect.

pronoun: 1. Pronom tonique de la troisième personne du singulier masculin. 2. Quant à lui par contre.

pronoun: 1. Dieu.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of lui

  • leur plural masculine feminine
  • eux plural masculine
  • elle singular feminine
  • elles plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce lui?

  • /lɥi/
  • Belgium /lwi/
  • \lɥi\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to lui

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is lui in French?

lui appears 1,585 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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