What are the pronouns they/them in your language? (discuss.online)

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I'm learning Russian and I don't know what it is for that, but in German I've seen "xier", "sier", and "dey". I might use "dey/dem".

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[-] e_chao@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Swahili has 10 different "genders," called "noun classes" or "ngeli," and none of them correlate with sex. Instead, the third-person singular pronouns are:

he/she and him/her: yeye
his/her: wake

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025

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