theirs vs his This is the sentence from book "Harry Potter and philosopher's stone". "And this gentleman’s kindly agreed to lend us his boat!” why "his boat" instead of "theirs boat"? Thanks.

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"this gentleman" is singular (and masculine), the "'s" just stands for "has" -> "his boat" Plural would be "these gentlemen" -> "their boats"

патамушта не "these gentlemen"

There are two errors with "theirs": 1) "Their" is plural, and 2) "theirs" is only used as a pronoun.

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