Their Meaning
/ðɛə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
detBelonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
detBelonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
Sentence Examples
That was probably what influenced their decision.
Most people write about their daily life.
People with the disease may lose their ability to communicate.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The campers at the summer camp forgot to bring ____ sleeping bags to the cabin.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children were very happy to see ____ parents waiting for them at the school gate after the trip today.
Word Origin & History
From Old Norse þeirra. Replaced native Old English heora.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For all things, even Celestial Luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline."
— 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:
"For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places."
— 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
"Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete."
— 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
"Proponents of adding a gender-neutral option to state identification documents say it would remove a form of discrimination against nonbinary people by providing them with the means to carry identification that matches their identity."
— 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend […]"
— c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], line 1172:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The campers at the summer camp forgot to bring ____ sleeping bags to the cabin.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children were very happy to see ____ parents waiting for them at the school gate after the trip today.