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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

their

/ðɛɚ/

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What does their mean?

determiner

  1. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
  2. Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.

adverb

  1. Misspelling of there.
More meanings (1)

contraction

  1. Misspelling of they’re.

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IPA pronunciation

/ðɛɚ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ðɚ/
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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.”
Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in WonderlandProject Gutenberg ebook #11
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
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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.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
The others would as naturally be disinclined to a revision, which was likely to end in an increase of their own incumbrances.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
Just as I did that, one of their number gave me, with his heavy boot, a powerful kick in the left eye.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23