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They
Pronunciation
- AHD: /thā/
- IPA: /ðeɪ/
- SAMPA: /DeI/
Personal pronoun
The third person, nominative case, usually plural, but sometimes used in the singular when the gender is unknown.
(Objective case: them, possessive: their, possessive noun; theirs, reflexive: themselves.)
- The third person, they refers to a group of others.
- Fred and Jane? They just arrived.
- An indefinite pronoun having a vague meaning of "people" or "some people".
- They say it's a good place to live.
- They didn't have computers in the old days.
- They should do something about this.
- Another indefinite pronoun is one, but the two words do not mean the same and are rarely interchangeable.
Translations
- Dutch: zij, ze
- Esperanto: ili
- Finnish: he
- French: ils m, elles f
- German: sie
- Ido: li, ili m, eli f, oli things
- Indonesian: mereka
- Interlingua: illes m (a group with at least one male), illas f (a group of females), illos n (a group of things) (1); uno, on (2)
- Italian: essi, loro
- Japanese: 彼ら / 彼等 (かれら, karera)
- Korean: 그들 (geudeul)
- Portuguese: eles m, elas f
- Romanian: ei m, ele f
- Russian: они (oni)
- Slovene: oni
- Spanish: ellos m, ellas f
- Swedish: de, dom
- Thai: พวกเขา (puak-kao)
- Tok Pisin: ol
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