替代形式

• (古體, 愛爾蘭除外)
• (非標準，罕見)
• (視覺方言)

英語

繼承自中古英語 ，的替代形式 （孩童（複數）； > 英語方言 ），繼承自古英語 、 (“孩童（複數）”)， (“孩童”) 的主格和斌格複數，等價於 +‎ 。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
• (美國南部，African-American Vernacular) 國際音標^(幫助)：[tʃɪl.ɹən]
• (通用美式，加拿大) 國際音標^(幫助)：[ˈt͡ʃɪl.d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]

• 音頻（美國）：

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• (澳大利亞) 國際音標^(幫助)：[ˈt͡ʃʊld̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən] (替代形式)
• 斷字：child‧ren

名詞

1. 的複數。
   • 1963, , 章號 7, 出自 ‎:

     ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2013 6月 14, , “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, 出自 , 卷 189, 期 1，頁號 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

異序詞

詞源

源自，加上多餘的複數後綴；對照、、。

名詞

1. 的複數