They

Pronoun

 * 1)  A group of people or objects previously mentioned.
 * Fred and Jane? They just arrived.
 * ''I have a Ford Focus and a Toyota Corolla, but they are both broken."
 * 1)  A single person, previously mentioned, but of unknown or irrelevant gender.
 * 2) * 1611, King James Bible, Deuteronomy 17.5:
 * Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
 * 1) * 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
 * ‘No – there was some one in the cab.’ The only attenuation she could think of was after a minute to add: ‘But they didn't come up.’
 * 1)  People; some people; someone.
 * They say it’s a good place to live.
 * They didn’t have computers in the old days.
 * They should do something about this.

Thesaurus
I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, bureaucracy, directorate, ego, ethical self, he, her, herself, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, management, me, ministry, my humble self, myself, number one, officialdom, oneself, other self, ourselves, prelacy, ruling class, ruling classes, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, themselves, top brass, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

Etymology
, borrowed from þeir:—nominative plural masculine of the demonstrative, which acted in Old Norse as a plural pronoun—from, from. Gradually replaced Old English hi and hie.

Cognate to þa:, Icelandic þeir: and Swedish/Danish/Norwegian de:.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, , ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: (humma)
 * Tunisian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Basque: haiek
 * Belarusian: яны
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: те (te)
 * Catalan: ells, elles
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin:, ,   ,  ,   ,
 * Min Nan: 亻因 (in),
 * Teochew: ing1, i1nang5
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dyirbal: (no third-person pronoun)
 * Egyptian: *sín
 * Esperanto: ili, tiuj
 * Estonian: nemad, nad
 * Ewe: wo
 * Faroese: ,
 * Fijian: rau (dual), iratou (paucal), ira (pl)
 * Finnish: he (of people); ne (of inanimate things and animals)
 * French: ,
 * Old French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hausa: súu (independent form)
 * Hawaiian: lāua dual, lākou
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido: li, ili, eli , oli (things)
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: illes, illas , illos
 * Irish: siad (conjunctive), iad (disjunctive), siadsan, iadsan (emphatic)
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 彼等,,   それら,   あの人達,   あの方々
 * Kazakh: олар
 * Korean: 그들


 * !Kung: (people),  (animals, things)
 * Lakota: epi, iyepi
 * Latgalian:, , ,
 * Latin:, , , hi, hae, haec, illi, illae, illae, illa
 * Latvian: viņi, viņas
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: тие (tie)
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: ad; emphatic adsyn
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * North Frisian: ,
 * Northern Sami: soai dual, sii
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: les or, los , las , lus
 * Ojibwe: wiinawaa
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: oni, one  , one
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: paykuna
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iad, iadsan
 * Sicilian: iddi; idde
 * Sinhalese: ඔවුහු, ඔවුන්, ඔහු
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: one, oni or both
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: wao
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: nila (ng form), kanila (sa form), sila (unmarked form)
 * Taos: ą́wąną
 * Telugu: వారు (vaaru), వాళ్ళు (vaaLLu)
 * Thai: พวกเขา
 * Tok Pisin: ol
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: وي, يے, وہ, یہ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: oms,  ofs,  ons
 * Welsh:,  hwynt,
 * West Frisian:, ,
 * !Xóõ:, (emphatic)
 * Yiddish: זיי
 * Yoruba: wọ́n (weak pronoun), àwọn (strong pronoun)


 * Cree: wiya
 * Esperanto:
 * Fijian: koya
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Guaraní: ahẽ
 * Hawaiian: ia
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: lu
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: uno, on
 * !Kung:
 * Kurdish:
 * Lakota: ish, iye


 * Maltese:
 * Novial: les
 * Ojibwe: wiin
 * Persian: (u)
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: pay
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: niya (ng form), kaniya (sa form), siya (unmarked form)
 * Thai: (kháo)
 * Tupinambá: a'e
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yoruba: ó, á


 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: wo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Novial: on
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , man

Anagrams

 * hyte