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How to spell their

What it means: Belonging to them.

In a sentence: Their cat loves to chase butterflies. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ei. Often misspelled as thier or there.

Sounds like, but is not: there, they're. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: they, them, theirs, themselves, there, they're. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Their” comes from Old Norse "þeirra," a form of "they," which entered English through Viking influence. It originally replaced older English forms and later became a key word in the modern set of confusing lookalikes: "their," "there," and "they're."

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You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

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