them
English dictionary entry
Meanings
pron
- Those ones.
- Used as the direct object of a verb.
- Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- Used as the object of a preposition.
- As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
- They or those.
det
- Those.
Pronunciation
thĕm
/ˈðɛm/
[ˈd̪ɛm]
En-us-them.ogg
thəm
/ˈðəm/
[ˈd̪ʌm]
/ˈðʌm/
En-us-them-unstressed.ogg
/ˈðɪm/
Word forms
them
of they
dem
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
Related words
how about them apples
how you get them is how you lose them
if you can't beat them, join them
if you can't lick them, join them
let them eat cake
mom and them
some mothers do have them
their
theirs
them ones
themself
themselves
them's the breaks
them's the facts
them's the rules
them there
they
us-and-them
us-and-them-ism
us versus them
with the best of them
Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
one
Translations
Albanian: ata
Albanian: ato
Albanian: atyre
Arabic: ـهُم
Arabic: ـهُنَّ
Arabic: ـهُمَا
Arabic: إِيَّاهُم
Arabic: إِيَّاهُنَّ
Arabic: إيَّاهُمَا
Arabic: ـهم
Armenian: նրանց
Armenian: իրենց
Old Armenian: նոցա
Old Armenian: նոսա
Azerbaijani: onları
Azerbaijani: onlara
Azerbaijani: onlarda
Azerbaijani: onlarla (commitative)
Azerbaijani: onlarsız
Bulgarian: тях
Bulgarian: им
Burmese: သူတို့
Burmese: သူများ
Catalan: els
Catalan: les
Chechen: царна
Chinese: 𪜶
Chinese Mandarin: 他們 /他们
Chinese Mandarin: 她們 /她们
Chinese Mandarin: 牠們 /它们
Chinese Mandarin: 它們 /它们
Czech: jich
Czech: jim
Czech: je
Danish: dem
Dutch: hen
Dutch: hun
Dutch: ze
Esperanto: ili
Esperanto: ilin
Ewe: wo
Faroese: teir
Faroese: tær
Faroese: tey
Faroese: teimum
Faroese: teim
Finnish: heidät
Finnish: heitä
Finnish: heillä
Finnish: heille
Finnish: heiltä
Finnish: niille
Finnish: niitä
Finnish: hänet
Finnish: häntä
Finnish: hänellä
Finnish: hänelle
Finnish: häneltä
French: les
French: leur
Georgian: მათ
Georgian: იმათ
German: ihnen
German: sie
Haitian Creole: yo
Hopi: pumuy
Hungarian: őket
Hungarian: azokat
Ido: li
Ido: ili
Ido: eli
Ido: oli
Indonesian: mereka
Irish: iad
Irish: iadsan
Old Irish: s-
Old Irish: da-
Old Irish: -us
Italian: loro
Italian: a loro
Italian: li
Italian: le
Judeo-Italian: אֵיסִי
Kazakh: оларды
Kituba: bau
Latin: is
Latin: ille
Latin: hic
Lingala: bangó
Louisiana Creole: yé
Manx: ad
Manx: adsyn
Māori: rāua
Māori: rātau
Māori: rātou
Norwegian: dem
Pitcairn-Norfolk: dem
Polish: ich
Polish: je
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