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This article is about the English personal pronoun. For other uses, see They (disambiguation).


They (IPA: /ğeɪ/) is a third-person, personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English.

Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
Singular Plural
Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
FirstImemineweusours
Secondyouyouyoursyouyouyours
Third Femininesheherherstheythemtheirs
Masculinehehimhis
Impersonalititits

Usage

The "singular" they is a special case of this pronoun, where they is used as a gender-neutral singular rather than plural pronoun. This use is disputed. (See also: English personal pronouns.)

Etymology

Personal pronouns in Middle English
Singular Plural
Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
FirstImemi(n)weusure
Secondthoutheethyyeyouyour
Third Impersonalhitit/himhishe
they		hem
them		hir
their
Masculinehehimhis
Feminineschehirehir

They "The People"

Taken from "You know what "they" say..."
  • "They" refers to the masses of those who are among the pop culture. "They" quote sayings of individuals who could put complex events in to understandable context; believing that what "they" have just quoted would justify an event or action which had just occurred.
  • "They" may also refer to the government or society at large, such as when a paranoid conspiracy theorist proclaims "They're out to get me, man" or "They're watching me right now."

See also

Modern English personal pronouns
I • you • he • she • it • one • we • you • they
They is most often the pronoun they. They is also the title of various artistic works.

  • Literature:
*They — a poem by Siegfried Sassoon.
*They — a short story by Robert A.

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This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language.

See International Phonetic Alphabet for English for a more complete version and Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic
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Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns.
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    Personal pronouns are pronouns often used as substitutes for proper or common nouns.

    English personal pronouns

    Main article: English personal pronouns


    Ordinary English has seven personal pronouns:

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      The nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun, which generally marks the subject of a verb, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments. (Basically, it is a noun that is doing something, usually joined (such as in Latin) with the accusative case.
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      Modern English}}}
      Language codes
      ISO 639-1: none
      ISO 639-2: —
      ISO 639-3: — Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the great vowel shift, completed in roughly 1550.
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      I (IPA: /aɪ/) is the first-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      We (IPA: /wiː/) is the first-person, plural personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      YOU is a South African magazine which is the English version of the Afrikaans family magazine Huisgenoot.

      This article is about the Modern English personal pronoun. For other uses, see You (disambiguation).

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      YOU is a South African magazine which is the English version of the Afrikaans family magazine Huisgenoot.

      This article is about the Modern English personal pronoun. For other uses, see You (disambiguation).

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      SHE may refer to:
      • Standard hydrogen electrode, also called Normal hydrogen electrode.
      • SHE, Systeme Hydrologique Europeen, a hydrology transport model
      • S.H.E a Taiwanese girl group
      • SHE, a British alternative blues band
      • SHE

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      He (IPA: /hiː/) is a third-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      It (IPA: /ɪt/) is a third-person, singular neuter pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      "Singular" they is a popular, non-technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context.
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      The adjective gender-neutral may describe:
      • Gender-neutral job title
      • Gender-neutral language
      • Gender-neutral marriage
      • Gender-neutral pronoun
      • Gender-neutral bathrooms
      It is sometimes confused with the neuter grammatical gender.
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      grammatical number is grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one").[1]
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      personal pronouns of English can have various forms according to gender, number, person, and case. Modern English is a language with very little inflection, to the point where some authors describe it as analytic, but its system of personal pronouns has preserved part of the
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      I (IPA: /aɪ/) is the first-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      We (IPA: /wiː/) is the first-person, plural personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      thou (pronounced IPA: /ğaʊ/, dialectically various) is a second person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in almost all contexts by you.
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      Ye (IPA: /jiː/) is the second-person, plural, personal pronoun (subject case) in Hiberno-English in which form it derives from archaic Middle English. "Ye" is still a very common word in Ireland today.
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      Hit (IPA: /hɪt/) was the neuter, third-person, singular, personal pronoun (subject case) in Old English.

      This word would probably have sounded something like Modern English heat.
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      They (IPA: /ğeɪ/) is a third-person, personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      He (IPA: /hiː/) is a third-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
      Singular Plural
      Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
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      Sche (IPA: /ʃiː/) was the feminine, third-person, singular, personal pronoun (subject case) in Middle English.

      The word sounded similar Modern English she.
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      personal pronouns of English can have various forms according to gender, number, person, and case. Modern English is a language with very little inflection, to the point where some authors describe it as analytic, but its system of personal pronouns has preserved part of the
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      Generic antecedents are representives of classes, indicated by a reference in ordinary language (most often a pronoun), where gender is typically unknown or irrelevant.
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      Them is the English third person accusative (i.e., used after a preposition or as the object of a verb) plural personal pronoun. They is the nominative form (i.e., subject of a phrase).
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      possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other pronouns, it substitutes a noun phrase, and can prevent its repetition.
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      The subjective pronouns are pronouns used as the subject of a sentence; in other words, the initiator or instigator of a verb. Subjective pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a nominative-accusative alignment pattern.
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