theirs

English

Alternative forms

• their's (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their +‎ -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /ðɛəz/, /ðɛːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ðɛɚz/, /ðɛɹz/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ðeːz/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ðiəz/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ðeəz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ðeɹz/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ðɜː(ɹ)z/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
• Homophone: there's

Pronoun

theirs (plural theirs)

1. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.

   This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.

   Theirs cost a lot more than ours.

   That cat of theirs got into our garden again. (double possessive)

   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎^[1]:

     The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.

2. (informal) Their house or home.

   Let's go over to theirs.

Translations

that which belongs to them

• Arabic: (belonging to two persons) لَهُمَا m or f (lahumā), (belonging to many persons) لَهُم m (lahum) لَهُن f (lahun)

  Egyptian: ليهم (līhom), بتاعهم m (betāʕhom), بتاعتهم f (betāʕethom), بتوعهم pl (betōʕhom)

• Azerbaijani: onlarınkı
• Belarusian: іх (ix)
• Bikol Central: sainda (bcl) (before a noun)
• Bulgarian: те́хен (téhen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他們的 / 他们的 (zh) (tāmen de), 她們的 / 她们的 (zh) (tāmen de) (of females)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲫⲱⲟⲩ m (phōou), ⲑⲱⲟⲩ f (thōou), ⲛⲟⲩⲟⲩ pl (nouou)

  Sahidic: ⲡⲱⲟⲩ m (pōou), ⲧⲱⲟⲩ f (tōou), ⲛⲟⲩⲟⲩ pl (nouou)

• Czech: jejich (cs)
• Dutch: het hunne, de hunne
• Esperanto: la ilia, la sia
• Finnish: heidän (fi)
• French: le leur (fr) f, la leur (fr) f, les leurs (fr) m pl or f pl
• Georgian: მათი (mati), იმათი (imati)
• German: ihrer (de) m, ihre (de) f, ihres (de) n
• Greek: δικός τους (el) m (dikós tous), δικιά τους f (dikiá tous), δική τους (el) f (dikí tous), δικό τους (el) n (dikó tous), δικοί τους (el) m pl (dikoí tous), δικές τους (el) f pl (dikés tous), δικά τους (el) n pl (diká tous)
• Hindi: उनका (hi) (unkā)
• Hungarian: övék (hu), övéik (hu)
• Italian: il loro m, la loro f, i loro m pl, le loro f pl
• Japanese: 彼らの (ja) (かれらの, karera no)
• Karakalpak: oniki
• Latin: suus (la), eorum (la), earum (la), illorum, illarum, horum (la), harum (la)
• Latvian: viņu (lv), viņējs
• Macedonian: нивен (niven)
• Marathi: त्यांचा m (tyāñcā), त्यांचे n (tyāñce), त्यांची f (tyāñcī)
• Mazanderani: وشونی (vešuni)
• Polish: ich (pl)
• Portuguese: seu (pt), deles (pt)
• Romanian: al lor m, a lor f, ai lor m pl, ale lor f pl
• Russian: их (ru) (ix)
• Serbo-Croatian: njihov, њихов
• Slovak: ich (sk)
• Slovene: njíhov (sl)
• Spanish: suyo (es) m, suya (es) f, suyos (es) m pl, suyas (es) f pl
• Swedish: deras (sv)
• Tagalog: kanila
• Thai: ของเขา (kŏng kăo)
• Turkish: onlarınki
• Tuvan: оларныы (olarnıı)
• Ukrainian: їх (uk) (jix), ї́хній (jíxnij)
• Urdu: ان کا (un kā)
• Vietnamese: của họ
• Yakut: кинилэр киэннэрэ (kiniler kiennere)

See also

• They on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Reiths, Rieths, Ritesh, Thiers, riseth, rithes, sireth