How do you say "they" (he/she) in German?
I was wondering if there's some way to say "they", not the third person plural, but the third person singular (gender neutral) in German.
For example, how would you say "If someone likes ice cream, they can buy it at the supermarket" in German?And what if you want to say "their", as in: If someone likes ice cream, their favourite one is at the supermarket"?

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How do you say "they" (he/she) in German?
I was wondering if there's some way to say "they", not the third person plural, but the third person singular (gender neutral) in German.
For example, how would you say "If someone likes ice cream, they can buy it at the supermarket" in German?And what if you want to say "their", as in: If someone likes ice cream, their favourite one is at the supermarket"?

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I think you can use the word 'man'.
Wenn man Ei mag, kann man es im Supermarkt kaufen.

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German make use of the impersonal pronoun "one".
In German "man"
Man spricht Deutsch.= One speaks German i.e German spoken
Man kann es tun, wenn man will. = They/you can do it if they/you want to.

For your particular sentence:
Wer Eis mag, der kann es im Supermarkt kaufen.

There are a number of ways of expressing "third person impersonal" sentences.

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they on German is ''Sie''

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