FromOld Norse þær
Rhymes:-aiːr þær f pl
( personal pronoun ) : they ( referring to an all-female group ) , nominative plural of the wordhún ( “ she ” ) ( personal pronoun ) : them ( referring to an all-female group ) , accusative plural of the wordhún ( “ she ” ) Icelandic personal pronouns singular first person second person third person masculine feminine neuter nominative ég eg ek † þú hann hún hon † ,hón † það þat † accusative mig mik † þig þik † hann hana það þat † dative mér þér honum hánum † henni því genitive mín þín hans hennar þess plural first person second person third person masculine feminine neuter nominative við þið þit † þeir þær þau accusative okkur ykkur þá þær þau dative okkur ykkur þeim þeim þeim genitive okkar ykkar þeirra þeirra þeirra
FromProto-West Germanic *þār Proto-Germanic *þar Old High German dār Old Norse þar
þǣr ( West Saxon , earlyKentish )
there c. 1011 ,"Byrhtferth's Manual" ,line 125 Nuþǣr ys an to lafe; gif þære Aprili. Nowthere is one left; give that April. late 10th century ,Ælfric ,"Saint Maur, Abbot" Þā ġecwæð sē abbod and ealle þā ġebrōðra þætþēr ne mihte nā mā muneca wunian... Then said the abbot and all the brothers, that no more monks could dwellthere ... where c. 992 ,Ælfric ,"The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul" Simon, ðaða he ðam folce ætwunden wæs, getígde ænne ormǽtne ryððan innan ðam geateþǣr Petrus inn hæfde, þæt he fǽrlice hine abítan sceolde. Simon, when he had escaped from the people, tied a huge mastiff within the gatewhere Peter had his dwelling, that he might suddenly devour him. c. 992 ,Ælfric ,"On the Purification of St. Mary" Uton fon nu on þæt godspelðǣr we hit ǣr forlēton. Let us now resume the gospelwhere we previously left it. c. 994 ,Ælfric ,The Seasons of the Year Wē hātaþ ānne dæġ fram sunnan upgange oþ ǣfen, ac swā þēah is on bōcum ġeteald tō ānum dæġe fram þǣre sunnan upgange oþ þæt hēo eft becumeþǣr hēo ǣr upp stāg. On þām fæce sind ġetealda fēower and twentiġ tīda. To us a day means from sunrise to sunset, but in books, one day is considered to last from when the sun rises to when it returns towhere it started from. In that interval there are considered to be 24 hours. if c. 980 Exeter Book Riddle 4 :Sē þēah biþ on þonce · þeġne mīnum,þǣr wiht wite, · ond wordum mīn It is, however, grateful to my servant,if a thing FromProto-Norse ᚦᛡᛁᛡᛉ ( þᴀiᴀʀ ) , fromProto-Germanic *þôz ( “ they, those ” ) , plural feminine of*sa ( “ that ” ) . Cognate withGothic 𐌸𐍉𐍃 ( þōs ) .
þær
they ,them ( third-person nominative and accusative plural feminine personal pronoun ) those ( nominative and accusative plural feminine demonstrative pronoun ) Old Norse personal pronouns singular first person second person reflexive third person masculine feminine neuter nominative ek þú — hann hon hón hǫ́n þat accusative mik þik sik hann hana hána þat dative mér þér sér hánum hónum hǫ́num henni því genitive mín þín sín hans hennar þess dual first person second person reflexive nominative vit it þit — accusative okkr ykkr sik dative okkr ykkr sér genitive okkar ykkar sín plural first person second person reflexive third person masculine feminine neuter nominative vér ér þér — þeir þær þau accusative oss yðr sik þá þær þau dative oss yðr sér þeim þeim þeim genitive vár yðar yðvar sín þeira þeirra þeira þeirra þeira þeirra
Old Norse demonstrative pronouns
þær
alternative form ofþar FromProto-Norse *ᚦᛖᛉ ( *þeʀ ) ,Proto-Germanic *þiz *þū
þær
dative ofþū 
