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There are many homophones in present-day standard German. As in other languages, however, there exists regional and/or individual variation in certain groups of words or in single words, so that the number of homophones varies accordingly. Regional variation is especially common in words that exhibit the long vowels ä and e.
there, their, and they're; threw and through; throne and thrown; thyme and time; tide and tied; tier and tire; tighten and titan; to, too, and two; toad, toed and towed; toe and tow; told and tolled; tracked and tract; tray and trey; udder and utter; vain, vane and vein; vale and veil; vial and vile; vice and vise; wade and weighed; wail and ...
there – "The bow shot the arrow there," he said as he pointed. their – "It was their bow and arrow." the Mother said. they're – They're not going to get to shoot the bow again after puncturing the tire (tyre) on Daddy's car. (Contraction of They and Are.) The words metal and mettle are polysemes and homophones, but not homographs.
There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for example, "bat". Many, though not all of these, have first syllables that evolved from Latin.
There refers to the location of something. Their means "belonging to them". They're is a contraction of "they are". There're is a contraction of "there are". [112] Standard: There're five of them, and they're all coming to the restaurant for their dinner; we will meet them there. Non-standard: I don't like peanuts because of there texture when ...
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Old English had a single third-person pronoun hē, which had both singular and plural forms, and they wasn't among them. In or about the start of the 13th century, they was imported from a Scandinavian source (Old Norse þeir, Old Danish, Old Swedish þer, þair), in which it was a masculine plural demonstrative pronoun.