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They (IPA: [ðeɪ]) is a third-person, personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Look up they in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ... Personal pronouns are pronouns often used as substitutes for proper or common nouns. ... 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. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

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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.) In English grammar, singular they (or generic they) is the use of the pronoun they and its inflected forms (them, their, etc. ... Non-sexist language (gender-generic, gender-inclusive, gender-neutral, or sex-neutral language) is language that attempts to refer neither to males nor females when discussing an abstract or hypothetical person whose sex cannot otherwise be determined, as opposed to sexist language, which attempts to refer to males. ... In linguistics, grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. ... The English personal pronouns are classified as follows: First person refers to the speaker(s). ...

Etymology

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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

• English personal pronouns
• Generic antecedents
• Them