deres.
their; third-person plural possessive.
Meaning & usage
their; third-person plural possessive.
Barna deres er blitt store.
their; third-person plural possessive. theirs; used independently, without a following noun.
reflexive third-person plural possessive; corresponding to their own, now normally expressed with sin, si, sitt or sine.
your, yours; second-person plural possessive.
Er det deres bil?
Er denne paraplyen deres?
Where this word comes from
From an extended form with genitive -s (“genitive suffix”) of Old Norse þeira (“their”), genitive plural of þeir (“they”). Compare Danish deres (“their”), Norwegian Nynorsk deira (“their”), Icelandic þeirra (“their”), Faroese teirra (“their”) and Swedish deras (“their”).
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