"La nepinoj vizitas siajn geavojn."
Translation:The granddaughters visit their grandparents.
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Even in this sentence when there is no other 3rd person subject, you use “siajn”? I would have thought it was “iliajn”.
Yes. If you said "iliajn" it would mean that they visit someone elses grandparents.
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The granddaughters (Alice and June) visit their (Isabell and Amandas) grandparents.
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The granddaughters (Alice and June) visit their (own) grandparents.
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So "siajn" is for our own grandparents in this case and "iliajn" is for someone else? Does it right?
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No, siajn is referring to the subject of the sentence. Iliajn would be someone else's parents.
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Why? The ambiguity on this sxiajn / ilijn thing isn't an issue in any other language I know, including English.
Furthermore, 'sxiajn' could still be referring to a 3rd person singular (like Jack and Jill visiting Molly's parents) so the ambiguity remains nonetheless.
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It is not ŝiajn but siajn. There is no ambiguity. It is a universal reflexive pronoun that always refers back to the subject.
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Can "siajn" be singular? Is there a word to refer to one person of an unspecified gender like "them" in English?
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Yes, it would be "sian" or "sia." And yes, it is "gxi," which would be rude to call slmeone in engish "here it is," but is it fine in Espersnto-"Jun estas gxi"
