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third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Albanian: ata (sq), ato (sq), atyre (sq)
- Arabic: ـهُم (ar) m pl (-hum), ـهُنَّ (ar) f pl (-hunna), ـهُمَا du (-humā), إِيَّاهُم m pl (ʔiyyāhum), إِيَّاهُنَّ f pl (ʔiyyāhunna), إيَّاهُمَا m du or f du (ʔiyyāhumā)
Egyptian Arabic: ـهم (-hum) - Armenian: նրանց (nrancʻ), իրենց (hy) (irencʻ)
Old Armenian: նոցա (nocʻa), նոսա (nosa) - Azerbaijani: onları (accusative), onlara (dative), onlarda (locative), onlarla (commitative), onlarsız (abessive)
- Bulgarian: тях (bg) (tjah), им (bg) (im)
- Burmese: သူတို့ (sutui.), သူများ (my) (su-mya:)
- Catalan: (accusative) els (ca) m, les (ca) f, (dative) els (ca)
- Chechen: царна (carna)
- Chinese:
Hokkien: 𪜶 (zh-min-nan) (in)
Mandarin: 他們 / 他们 (zh) (tāmen) (human), 她們 / 她们 (zh) (tāmen) (human, female only), 牠們 / 它们 (zh) (tāmen) (animal), 它們 / 它们 (zh) (tāmen) (inanimate) - Czech: jich (cs) (genitive, locative), nich (cs) (genitive, locative after preposition), jim (cs) (dative), nim (cs) (dative after preposition), je (cs) (accusative), ně (cs) (accusative after preposition), jimi (cs) (instrumental) nimi (cs) (instrumental after preposition)
- Danish: dem (da)
- Dutch: hen (nl) (esp. for direct objects), hun (nl) (esp. for indirect objects), ze (nl) (unemphatic)
- Esperanto: ili (eo), ilin (eo)
- Ewe: wo
- Faroese: teir (fo), tær (fo), tey (fo) (accusative case), teimum, teim (dative case)
- Finnish: heidät (fi), heitä (fi), heillä (fi), heille (fi), (inflected forms of he - "they", of which the ones listed are the most frequently used), heiltä (fi), niille (fi) (of things or informally of people), niitä (fi) (of things or informally of people)
- French: (accusative) les (fr), (dative) leur (fr), (after preposition or emphatic) eux (fr) m, (after preposition or emphatic) elles (fr) f
- Georgian: მათ (mat), იმათ (imat)
- German: ihnen (de) (dative), sie (de) (accusative)
- Haitian Creole: yo
- Hopi: pumuy
- Hungarian: őket (hu), azokat (hu)
- Ido: li (io), ili (io) m, eli (io) f, oli (io) n
- Indonesian: mereka (id)
- Irish: iad, iadsan (emphatic)
Old Irish: s-, da-, -us - Italian: (after preposition) loro (it), (indirect object) loro (it), (indirect object, emphatic) a loro, (indirect object with an imperative verb) loro (it), (direct object; enclitic) li (it) m, le (it) f, (direct object, emphatic) loro (it), (indirect object, colloquial; enclitic, becomes glie when used with a direct object) gli (it)
- Judeo-Italian: אֵיסִי (ʾesi /essi/)
- Kazakh: оларды (olardy)
- Kituba: bau
- Latin: see inflected plural forms of: is (la), ille (la), hic (la)
- Lingala: bangó
- Louisiana Creole: yé
- Manx: ad (gv), adsyn (emphatic)
- Māori: rāua (referring to two people), rātau (referring to three or more people), rātou (referring to three or more people)
- Norwegian: dem (no)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: dem
- Polish: ich (pl) m pl, je (pl) f pl
- Portuguese: os (pt) m pl (direct object), lhes (pt) m pl or f pl (dative), eles (pt) m pl (preposition), as (pt) f pl (direct object), elas (pt) f pl (preposition)
- Romanian: ei (ro) m pl (direct object) (stressed form), ele (ro) f pl (direct object) (stressed form), îi m pl (direct object) (unstressed form), le f pl (direct object) (unstressed form), lor (ro) m pl or f pl (indirect object) (stressed form), le m pl or f pl (indirect object) (unstressed form)
- Russian: их (ru) (ix) (direct object), им (ru) (im) (indirect object), (see они́ (ru) (oní) they for the complete declension)
- Scots: thaim
- Slovak: (dative) im, (accusative) ich (sk)
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jej du, je pl (inanimate); jeju du, jich pl (animate) - Spanish: a ellos m pl, a ellas f pl, los (es) m (accusative), las (es) f (accusative), les (es) n (accusative, neologism), les (es) (dative)
- Swedish: dem (sv)
- Turkish: onlar (tr)
- Ukrainian: їх (uk) (jix), їм (uk) (jim)
- Venetan: lori (vec)
- Wolof: leen
- Yoruba: wọ́n (following a complex verb or monosyllabic verb ending in a low- or mid-tone), wọn (following a monosyllabic verb ending in a high tone)
- Zulu: bona class 2 (usually for people), yona class 4, wona class 6, zona class 8, zona class 10