they
要点彼らが(は)、人々
意味
- 彼らが(は),彼女らが(は),それらが(は)
- (一般に)人々,世間の人
例文
They are afraid that nuclear war will break out.
彼らは核戦争の心配をしている。
They can't have gone out because the light's on.
明かりがついているのだから、彼らが外出したはずがない。
They usually go to school from Monday to Friday.
彼らは普通月曜から金曜まで学校に行きます。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English þei, borrowed in the 1200s from Old Norse þeir, plural of the demonstrative sá which acted as a plural pronoun. Displaced native Middle English he from Old English hīe — which vowel changes had left indistinct from he (“he”) — by the 1400s, being readily incorporated alongside native words beginning with the same sound (the, that, this). Used as a singular pronoun since 1300, e.g. in the 1325 Cursor Mundi.