Meanings
alternative obsolete their's
- That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
Theirs cost a lot more than ours.
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This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.
That cat of theirs got into our garden again.
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.
1878, Henry James, An International Episode - informalTheir house or home.
Let's go over to theirs.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishtheires
- Englishtheirs
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.
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Arabic لَهُمَا, لَهُم m لَهُن
- لَهُمَا (lahumā)that which belongs to them
- لَهُم m لَهُن (lahum)that which belongs to them
Bulgarian те́хен
- те́хен (téhen)that which belongs to them
Chinese Mandarin 他們的 /他们的, 她們的 /她们的
- 他們的 /他们的 (tāmen de)that which belongs to them
- 她們的 /她们的 (tāmen de)that which belongs to them
Czech jejich
- jejichthat which belongs to them
Dutch het hunne, de hunne
- het hunnethat which belongs to them
- de hunnethat which belongs to them
Esperanto la ilia, la sia
- la iliathat which belongs to them
- la siathat which belongs to them
Finnish heidän
- heidänthat which belongs to them
French le leur, la leur
- le leurthat which belongs to them
- la leurthat which belongs to them
- les leursthat which belongs to them
German ihrer, ihre
- ihrerthat which belongs to them
- ihrethat which belongs to them
- ihresthat which belongs to them
Greek δικός τους, δικιά τους
- δικός τους (dikós tous)that which belongs to them
- δικιά τους (dikiá tous)that which belongs to them
- δική τους (dikí tous)that which belongs to them
- δικό τους (dikó tous)that which belongs to them
- δικοί τους (dikoí tous)that which belongs to them
- δικές τους (dikés tous)that which belongs to them
- δικά τους (diká tous)that which belongs to them
Hindi उनका
- उनका (unkā)that which belongs to them
Hungarian övék, övéik
- övékthat which belongs to them
- övéikthat which belongs to them
Italian il loro, la loro
- il lorothat which belongs to them
- la lorothat which belongs to them
- i lorothat which belongs to them
- le lorothat which belongs to them
Japanese 彼らの
- 彼らの (karera no)that which belongs to them
Latin suus, eorum
- suusthat which belongs to them
- eorumthat which belongs to them
- earumthat which belongs to them
- illorumthat which belongs to them
- illarumthat which belongs to them
- horumthat which belongs to them
- harumthat which belongs to them
Latvian viņu, viņējs
- viņuthat which belongs to them
- viņējsthat which belongs to them
Polish ich
- ichthat which belongs to them
Portuguese seu, deles
- seuthat which belongs to them
- delesthat which belongs to them
Romanian al lor, a lor
- al lorthat which belongs to them
- a lorthat which belongs to them
- ai lorthat which belongs to them
- ale lorthat which belongs to them
Russian их
- их (ix)that which belongs to them
Slovak ich
- ichthat which belongs to them
Spanish suyo, suya
- suyothat which belongs to them
- suyathat which belongs to them
- suyosthat which belongs to them
- suyasthat which belongs to them
Swedish deras
- derasthat which belongs to them
Tagalog kanila
- kanilathat which belongs to them
Thai ของเขา
- ของเขา (kŏng kăo)that which belongs to them
Turkish onlarınki
- onlarınkithat which belongs to them
Ukrainian їх, ї́хній
- їх (jix)that which belongs to them
- ї́хній (jíxnij)that which belongs to them
Urdu ان کا
- ان کا (un kā)that which belongs to them
Vietnamese của họ
- của họthat which belongs to them
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Cite this entry
theirs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/theirs
“theirs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/theirs. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “theirs,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/theirs.
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