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

submitted 1 day ago by IHatePepRallies@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Portuguese^[Ele = he; Ela = she; Add an 's' to the end and both become plural while keeping it gendered. Under normal circumstances, "eles" is used for ambiguous gender plural] doesn't have that. People will use a variety of alternatives, like elu/eli/el@/elx, which frankly sound super dumb. It doesn't help that almost everything in the language is gendered.