他们 (tāmen) means They (them). Below are 24 of the 199 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他们 交往了两年。
Tāmen jiāowǎng le liǎng nián.
They have been seeing each other for two years.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 交往
他们 家正在装修。
Tāmen jiā zhèngzài zhuāngxiū.
Their home is being renovated.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 装修
他们 的婚礼很浪漫。
Tāmen de hūnlǐ hěn làngmàn.
Their wedding was very romantic.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 浪漫
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From the graded readers
可是今天早上, 他们 打电话来了。
kěshì jīntiān zǎoshang, tāmen dǎdiànhuà lái le / liǎo / liào.
But this morning they rang.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
他们 笑得很开心,看起来大概二十岁左右。
tāmen xiào dehěn kāixīn, kànqǐlái dàgài èrshí suì zuǒyòu.
They were laughing happily and looked about twenty.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
妈妈把手机举起来,让我看 他们 那边的月亮。
māma bǎshǒu jī jǔ qǐlai, ràng wǒ kàn / kān tāmen nàbian de / dì yuèliàng.
Mum lifted the phone so I could see the moon from their side.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
她看了很久,然后一个一个地告诉我 他们 是谁。
tā kànle hěn jiǔ, ránhòu yīgè yīgè dì / de gàosu wǒ tāmen shì shéi.
She looked at it for a long time, then told me one by one who they were.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
他们 说:“三十岁了,现在开始会不会太晚?”
tāmen shuō:" sānshí suì le / liǎo / liào, xiànzài kāishǐ huìbùhuì tài wǎn?"
They said, "You're thirty — isn't it a bit late to start now?"
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
我看见了爸爸、奶奶和弟弟, 他们 都在桌子旁边。
wǒ kànjiànle bàba, nǎinai hé dìdi, tāmen dōu zài zhuōzi pángbiān.
I saw my dad, my grandmother and my brother, all round the table.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
他们 appears in 199 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 他们
How is 他们 used in a sentence?
This page shows 199 sentences using 他们 (tāmen, "They (them)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
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