they
pronombredeterminanteverbosustantivopronombretop 100 en diálogos de cine
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- //ðə//
A group of entities previously mentioned.
pronombre
- 1
A group of entities previously mentioned.
Fred and Jane? They just arrived.
Dogs may bark if they want to be fed.
Plants wilt if they are not watered.
I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.
- 2
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since late 20th c.) non-binary.
Somebody requested a seat at Friday's performance but didn't say if they preferred the balcony or the floor.
I asked my friend if they wanted to come, but they said no.
One of the boys tripped over, and they hit their head on the door.
There is no need to panic, Robin should be here soon and they will know what to do.
- 3
People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
They say it’s a good place to live.
They didn’t have computers in the old days.
They built this city on rock and roll.
They don’t make them like they used to.
- 4
The authorities, the (power) elites, the powers that be, the establishment, the man, the system: government, police, employers, etc.
They'll tax us for the air we breathe next.
They should increase our wages.
Ha, you believe the moon is real? That's just what they want you to think.
- 5
The opponents of the side which is keeping score.
Etimología
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tóy Proto-Germanic *þai Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛁᛉ (*þaiʀ) Old Norse þeirbor. Middle English þei English they From Middle English þei, borrowed in the 1200s from Old Norse þeir, plural of the demonstrative sá which acted as a plural pronoun. Displaced native Middle English he from Old English hīe — which vowel changes had left indistinct from he (“he”) — by the 1400s, being readily incorporated alongside native words beginning with the same sound (the, that, this). Used as a singular pronoun since 1300, e.g. in the 1325 Cursor Mundi. The Norse term (whence also Icelandic þeir (“they”), Faroese teir (“they”), Danish de (“they”), Swedish de (“they”), Norwegian Nynorsk dei (“they”)) is from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”) (from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)), whence also Old English þā (“those”) (whence obsolete English tho), Scots thae, thai, thay (“they; those”), Swabian dia (“they”). The origin of the determiner they (“the, those”) is unclear. The OED, English Dialect Dictionary and Middle English Dictionary define it and its Middle English predecessor thei as a demonstrative determiner or adjective meaning “those” or “the”. This could be a continuation of the use of the English pronoun they's Old Norse etymon þeir as a demonstrative meaning “those”, but the OED and EDD say it is limited to southern, especially southwestern, England, specifically outside the region of Norse contact.
determinante
- 1
The, those.
They rooks as you see … only coom a few year agoo.
Darn'd if they Cockney Chaps can zee there worn't nort but lie in him.
page 21: "But you spile [spoil] they gals - they won't be for no good, they won't." page 30: "'Twas all about they rewks [rooks]," he sobbed. page 54: "mucking the place up with they weeds"
"Bodies and souls," she cried, "if I didn't reckon to have hidden they boots safe from un in the stick-rick." "Off wi' they tight-wasted shoes o' yours, Martha."
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Their.
MARY ELLEN is a different case from the others. She has five children and, she claims: "I don't know who they father is. I ain't never kept track. They is always another one. You know, I can catch me a guy[.]"
It's a shame to see someone talk so bad about the gays and lesbians in prison. She is brainwash to the fact that she think every gay and lesbian in prison is guilty of they crimes.
But all they kids be listenin' to me religiously / So I'm signin' CDs while police fingerprint me
I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends
verbo
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To refer to (someone, sometimes especially someone who does not use gender-neutral pronouns) using they/them pronouns.
I have a pin that says she/her, but I still get theyed all the time.
sustantivo
- 1
informalA non-binary person.
pronombre
- 1
There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
They’s music in the twitter of the bluebird and the jay.
MARY ELLEN is a different case from the others. She has five children and, she claims: "I don't know who they father is. I ain't never kept track. They is always another one. You know, I can catch me a guy[.]"
They ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.
But they ain’t nothin’ in there you didn’t already have.
Etimología
From earlier the'e, from there.
Formas
- plural
- theys
- singular
- themself
- pasado
- theyed
- participio
- theyed
- gerundio
- theying
- 3.ª persona del singular
- theys
they · A group of entities previously mentioned.
Thi · A surname from Vietnamese.thick · Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite…thief · One who carries out a theft.