they

suomi-englanti sanakirja

they englanniksi

  1. (senseid) A group of entities previously mentioned. (defdate)

  2. (ux)

  3. (quote-book) |author= Giovanni Bocaccio|tlr= John Florio |publisher=Isaac Iaggard|url= https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=FEz6_FECCI0C |passage=(..)purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.

  4. {{quote-book|en|year=2010|title=Iguana Invasion!: Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida|page=9|isbn=1561644684

  5. (senseid) A single person, previously mentioned, but typically not if previously named and identified as male or female, especially if of unknown or (since 21st century) non-binary gender. (defdate)

  6. (RQ:King James Version)

  7. {{quote-book

  8. 2008, (w), quoted in (w), ''Michelle Obama in Her Own Words'', New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2009. (ISBN), page 18:

  9. One thing a nominee earns is the right to pick the vice president that they think will best reflect their vision of the country, and I am just glad I will have nothing to do with it.
  10. {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Ivan E. Coyote; Rae Spoon|title=Gender Failure|isbn=1551525372

  11. 2015 April, (w) (mayor of Baltimore), commenting on the death of Freddie Gray:

  12. I'm angry that we're here again, that we have had to tell another mother that their child is dead.
  13. (seemoreCites)

  14. (senseid) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.

  15. (cot)

  16. (quote-song)|album=Stripped|artist=Christina Aguilera|passage=I am beautiful, no matter what they say

  17. (senseid) The authorities: government, police, employers, etc.

  18. The opponents of the side which is score|keeping score.

  19. (ant)

  20. The, those. (defdate)

  21. 1878, Louis John Jennings, ''Field Paths and Green Lanes'', quoting an old East Sussex man:

  22. "They rooks as you see ... only coom a few year agoo."
  23. {{quote-text|en|year=1883|title=Judy, or the London serio-comic journal|volume=33|publisher=Harvard University|url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=8iEoAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22they%20Cockney%22&pg=PA190v=onepage&q=%22they%20Cockney%22&f=false

  24. {{quote-text|en|year=1895|title=Under the Chilterns: A Story of English Village Life

  25. 1901, Gwendoline Keats (of Devon), ''Tales of Dunstáble Weir'', page 55:

  26. "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."
  27. (RQ:Welsh Trainspotting)

  28. Their. (defdate)

  29. (quote-book)

  30. (quote-text)

  31. (quote-song)

  32. {{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=Alan Moore|title=Jerusalem|publisher=Liveright|year_published=2016|page=175

  33. There (qualifier). (defdate)

  34. {{quote-text|en|year=1889|author=James Whitcomb Riley|title=Pipes o' Pan

  35. {{quote-book|en|year=2000|author=Janice Giles|title=Hill Man|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvmjVapqBOYC&lpg=PA58&dq=%22they%20ain't%20nothin%22&pg=PA58v=onepage&q=%22they%20ain't%20nothin%22&f=false|page=58

  36. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Christian Carvajal|title=Lightfall|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3kkoYvglrQC&lpg=PA82&dq=%22they%20ain't%20nothin%22&pg=PA82v=onepage&q=%22they%20ain't%20nothin%22&f=false|page=82

  37. {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Alessandro Portelli|title=They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOU6n6zP1W8C&lpg=PA207&dq=%22they%20a%20lot%22&pg=PA207v=onepage&q=%22they%20a%20lot%22&f=false|page=207

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