Comment by kiscica

The problem with "they" is that it is in fact a very bad translation for "ő" in a sentence like "ő mosogat." We typically find gender-neutral "they" in English when there is an indefinite antecedent like "someone" or "anyone" - "if anyone objects, they should talk to me." In contrast, in Hungarian, including the third-person pronoun "ő" means the speaker has a very definite subject in mind and in fact wishes to emphasize that (a neutral "he/she is washing up" would be just "mosogat", without any explicit pronoun; "ő mosogat" almost means "HE [not someone else] is washing up." (Or "SHE" of course.) The only case where I can imagine translating "ő" as "they" in this kind of context is when I know that the person in question explicitly prefers the pronoun "they," e.g. because they identify as non-binary.