This is the 7021st most frequent Chinese word.
男孩
Boy.
Here, '男孩' refers to a specific boy being identified as the subject of the activity.
这个男孩喜欢踢足球。
This boy likes to play soccer.
In this sentence, '男孩们' is the plural form, indicating a group of boys involved in the action.
那些男孩们在操场上玩耍。
Those boys are playing on the playground.
Here, '男孩' is used to reflect the speaker's personal identity during a past period of time.