Template:Gender/sandbox

they

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This template returns the correct third person singular pronoun to refer to a given user, based on what the user has set as their gender in their preferences. It uses the {{GENDER}} magic word.

Usage

Typical:
{{gender |Username |case }}

Vertical:

{{gender
|Username
|case
}}

Parameters

|Username or |1=Username – The username without the User: prefix
|2= or the second unnamed parameter – Optional parameter for giving the case of the pronoun. Possible values are listed below, and include linguistic terms (and their abbreviations) and "what I want it to say" versions:
- nominative, subject, subjective, sub, he/she, or they – Returns "he", "she" or "they". This is the default value of the case parameter.
- accusative, object, oblique, objective, dative, prepositional, obj, him/her, him, or them – Returns "him", "her", or "them".
- genitive, possessive, pos, his/her, his, or their – Returns "his", "her" or "their".
- genitive pronoun, possessive pronoun, poss, his/hers, hers, or theirs – Returns "his", "hers" or "theirs".
- reflexive, intensive, himself/herself, or themselves – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themselves".
- reflexive2, intensive2, himself/herself2, or themself – Returns "himself", "herself" or "themself" (preferred by The Chicago Manual of Style and some other sources on singular they).

Examples

In these examples, the hypothetical users User:ExampleMale, User:ExampleFemale and User:ExampleNeutral are supposed to be male, female and of unspecified gender, respectively.

{{gender|ExampleMale}} would return he
{{gender|ExampleFemale}} would return she
{{gender|ExampleNeutral}} would return they
{{gender|ExampleMale|reflexive}} would return himself
{{gender|ExampleNeutral|accusative}} would return them