How to spell they'd

hear it/ðeɪd/pronounSilent and tricky

What it means: Short form of 'they would'.

In a sentence: They'd love to go to the zoo and see the animals.

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

Where it comes from: They'd is a contraction formed by shortening 'they would' or 'they had' and replacing the missing letters with an apostrophe. Contractions like this became popular in spoken and written English to make common phrases quicker and more natural to say.

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