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English
rank|my|were|are|37|their|one|so|me
Pronunciation
enPR|thâr, IPA|/ðe�(r)/, SAMPA|/De@(r)/
audio|en-us-their.ogg|Audio (US)
Homophones
there
they're
Pronoun
wikipedia
en-pron
- possessive determiner Belonging to them.
#:They will meet tomorrow at their convenience.
#:This is probably their cat.
- possessive determiner Belonging to someone of unknown gender.
#:Everyone must understand their feelings.
Usage notes
For notes on the usage referring to a person of unspecified gender, see the usage notes for they.
It is important to distinguish �their� from �there� and �they're|they�re�. �Their� signifies ownership. �There� designates a place. �They�re� means �they are�.
Related terms
they, them (personal pronouns, subject & object case)
theirs (possessive pronoun)
Translations
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Arabic: ARchar|��� unicode|(láhum)
Chinese:
:Mandarin: zh-ts|���|�们� (t�mende); zh-ts|她��|她们� (t�mende)
:Min Nan: 亻å� (in)
Czech: jejich
Dutch: hun
Esperanto: ilia, iliaj
Finnish:
:*(if owners are people) heidän (genitive of he) + -nsa#Finnish|-nsa (with back vowel harmony) / -nsä#Finnish|-nsä (with front vowel harmony) (possessive suffix)
:: *Note: In standard Finnish, both the possessive suffix and the genitive of the personal pronoun are compulsory. In colloquial Finnish, usually only heidän (or its colloquial or dialectal variants, e.g. heiän) is used.
:*(if owners are animals or inanimate things) ne|niiden (genitive of ne) (no possessive suffix appended to the main word if the thing that is in English "their ..." is the subject of the clause)
French: leur s, leurs p
Frisian: har
German: ihr, ihre
Hungarian: az �...-uk/-juk/-ük/-jük
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Italian: il loro m sing, la loro f sg, i loro m p, le loro f p
Novial: losen m p (1), lasen f p (1), lusen n pl (1), lesen m p or f p or n pl or any mixture (1), sen referring to subject (1), len (2), sen referring to subject (2)
Japanese: 彼�� (����, karera no)
Korean: 그�� (geudeul-ui)
Maltese: tagħhom
Portuguese: seu, seus
Russian: и� (i�)
Slovak: ich#Slovak|ich
Slovene: njihov
Spanish: su s, sus p
Swedish: deras, sin (c, singular), sitt (n, singular), sina (plural)
:Note: In French, Italian, Spanish, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner. In Swedish, the gender of "sin" agrees with the things owned, while "deras" never inflects.
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Category:English determiners
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
/hér/
Verb
infl|gd|verb
- will say
#:their Seumas — James will say.
#:their mo chlann — my children will say.
fr:their
ko:their
io:their
it:their
la:their
hu:their
ja:their
pl:their
simple:their
fi:their
ta:their
te:their
vi:their
tr:their
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