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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'they' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions they pronoun (desc=personal pronoun; the third person, nominative case, usually plural, but sometimes used in the singular when the gender is unknown or irrelevant, objective case, them, possessive, their, possessive noun, theirs, reflexive plural, themselves, reflexive singular, themself) (context, the third person plural) A group of others previously mentioned. Fred and Jane? They just arrived. (context, the third person singular, disputed) A single person, previously mentioned, but of unknown or irrelevant gender. Have you ever seen someone while are on their deathbed? (context, indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; someone. They say it"s a good place to live. They didn"t have computers in the old days. They should do something about this. Translations:  Dutch: ze French: on German: man Italian: si Spanish: se Etymology: From íeir, nominative plural masculine of the demonstrative ( = Old English ía, íÄ), which acted in Old Norse as a plural pronoun. Compare Swedish/Danish/Norwegian de "they". Ultimately from thai "those", from (PIE.) base to- "that".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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