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él

/ˈel/

pronoun/ˈel/

he, him, masculine personal third person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions); it, masculine non-personal third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun (usually used after prepositions to refer to masculine nouns)

Él es mi hermano.He is my brother.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der. Proto-Italic *olnos Old Latin olle Latin ille Spanish él Inherited from Latin ille (“that one”).