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Searching Baidu for 大家们 (dàjiāmén) gives 8,770,000 hits.

Question: Why is 大家们 a thing?

It is surprising because 大家 (dàjiā) means everyone, and 们 (mén) is used to turn a few select words into plurals. For example, 我们 (wǒmén = us, we), 先生们 (xiānshēngmén = gentlemen), and 朋友们 (péngyǒumén = friends).

It doesn't seem to make sense to say 大家们 and take a plural of "everyone".

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  • 1.most search results for 大家们 do contain this unbroken sequence but only the 3 characters not necessarily in the same order (suggestion use the find function on any of the hits) (see answer #1) 2. the described phenomenon may be more common with 您们 which according to grammar books also is invalid
    – user6065
    Sep 13, 2017 at 2:59
  • @user6065: I believe some would take issue with 您们. I doubt you wouldn't even find the word 您们 in any authoritative dictionaries. It should always be 你们.
    – dan
    Sep 13, 2017 at 3:51
  • exactly, (comment #1: 您们 is invalid)
    – user6065
    Sep 13, 2017 at 4:17
  • 您们 is a respectful way of saying 你们, it's been barely used though.
    – spiritwalker
    Sep 13, 2017 at 5:37
  • 大家们 can be used in 书法大家们，文学大家们，here they should be understood as 大书法家们 or 书法大家 - 们, 书法大家 means Gread Artist ^_^.
    – Daniel Yang
    Sep 13, 2017 at 10:12

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There's one context where it is correct: when the subject is "大家", as in:

古希腊那些大家们几千万数量级的著作是如何流传下来的?

Under this definition, 大家 is an honorific, or a short form of 大作家, 大專家. So 大家们 would be the plural form of this.

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    Although 大家们 can make sense here, it's still not a good expression because 哪些 denotes the plural already and 们 here is redundant. Also, the sentence has another issue with 几千万数量级. 几千万 is not 数量级, while 千万 is 数量级. So, 古希腊的那些大家数以千万计的著作... sounds better to me.
    – dan
    Sep 13, 2017 at 1:21
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大家们 is not correct.

Not all search terms with a lot of results are correct words/phrases.

You should notice that there are not many meaningful results in the search results. And the very first result is a Q/A site asking whether "大家们" is correct, and the accept answer says it is not. The second result is a paper from a journal that discusses this kind of errors.

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This is an interesting question. there are at least two meanings for "大家", one means "we/us", and the other means a well-know person in a field. so, if "大家" means "we/us", you can't say "大家们", it's not correct, because in this case "大家" has been represented "we/us"; but when you describe a group of people who are well known in a field, such as calligraphers, you can say "大家们", here are the examples

English: The calligraphers from china have been sleeping.

Chinese: 从中国来的书法大家们已经睡觉了。

but most of time we would like to say in chinese as

从中国来的书法家们已经睡觉了。

in most case of chinese, adding the word "们" at the end of a creature may means the group of this kind of creature. "人们" means people, as "人" means human being. However, it can't be described as a simple question, to understand all about that you may need to know more about china and chinese.

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