HOW TO PRONOUNCE
their
/ðɛɚ/
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What does their mean?
determiner
- Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
- Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.
adverb
- Misspelling of there.
More meanings (1)
contraction
- Misspelling of they’re.
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IPA pronunciation
/ðɛɚ/
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“They’re putting down their names,” the Gryphon whispered in reply, “for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.”
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
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And we did beat them again, and did slay a great number of them, and their dead were cast into the sea.
The others would as naturally be disinclined to a revision, which was likely to end in an increase of their own incumbrances.
Just as I did that, one of their number gave me, with his heavy boot, a powerful kick in the left eye.