вони

Inherited from Old Slovak voni, vony, from Proto-Slavic *oni.

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• Rhymes: -ɔni
• Hyphenation: во‧ни

вони (voni) pl

1. they (third-person plural pronoun)

• Unlike Slovak oni and ony, there is no gender or animacy distinction in the third-person plural pronoun.

• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “they”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 327

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во́ни • (vóni) f inan or f inan pl

1. inflection of вонь (vonʹ):
   1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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вони́ • (voný)

1. (the third-person plural) they
2. (the third-person singular, usually colloquial and respectful) they
3. (the third-person singular, gender-neutral, proscribed) they

While Ukrainian does not have an official pronoun for non-binary individuals, some have claimed the usage of вони (vony) as an equivalent to the singular they in English.

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “вони”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “вони”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN