viņi

In a sentence

• Viņi spēlē futbolu.

  They are playing football.

  Here, 'viņi' is used as the subject pronoun referring to a group of people (masculine or mixed gender) who are performing the action of playing.

• Es redzu, ka viņi nāk uz skolu.

  I see that they are coming to school.

  In this sentence, 'viņi' functions as the subject of the subordinate clause, denoting a third-person masculine or mixed group being observed.

• Vai tie ir viņi?

  Are those them?

  Here, 'viņi' is used as a pronoun in the nominative case to identify a group (masculine or mixed) being inquired about.