they're
SayTHAIR/ðeɪɚ//ðɛə/AUSTHEY/ðeː/
Often confused with their and there
- 1Contraction of they are.
They're arriving on the evening train from the city.
The neighbors say they're moving abroad next spring.
Note
Two words fold into one here, and the apostrophe stands where the vowel of are dropped out. Because they can refer to a single person as well as a group, so can they're, and it keeps the plural verb even for one person: Sam called, and they're running late. It sounds exactly like there and their, and the three often swap places in writing. To check, expand it to they are and see whether the sentence still works.
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