det
Meaning 1
Those.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Examples
- Gimme two of them yellow ones.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
them
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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stressed: thĕm
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stressed: /ˈðɛm/
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[ˈðʌm] stressed form, nonstandard, General American
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[ˈðɪm] pen-pin merger
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rhymes with -ɛm
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unstressed: thəm
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unstressed: /ðəm/
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US, unstressed: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: DH EH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: DH AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A non-binary person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, offensive, slang, sometimes
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 3
Those ones.
Used as the direct object of a verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person
Examples
- She treated them for a cold.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 4
Those ones.
Used as the indirect object of a verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person
Examples
- She wrote them a letter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 5
Those ones.
Used as the object of a preposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person
Examples
- Give it to them.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 6
Those ones.
As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, in-plural, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, third-person, uncommon
Examples
- [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 7
Those ones.
Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person
Examples
- Who was there? —Them.
- Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
- Who did that? —(It was) not them: I was watching them the whole time.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 8
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
Used as the direct object of a verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person
Qualifier: occasionally proscribed
Examples
- If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 9
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
Used as the indirect object of a verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person
Qualifier: occasionally proscribed
Examples
- If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 10
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
Used as the object of a preposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person
Qualifier: occasionally proscribed
Examples
- If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 11
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person, uncommon
Qualifier: occasionally proscribed
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 12
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person
Qualifier: occasionally proscribed
Examples
- Who was there? —Them.
- Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
- Who did that? —(It was) not them: I was watching them the whole time.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 13
They or those.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, personal, pronoun, third-person
Qualifier: informal set phrases
Examples
- I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
Across languages
Translations
147 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: ata — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Albanian: ato — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Albanian: atyre — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: ـهُم (-hum) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: ـهُنَّ (-hunna) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: ـهُمَا (-humā) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: إِيَّاهُم (ʔiyyāhum) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: إِيَّاهُنَّ (ʔiyyāhunna) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: إيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Arabic: ـهم (-hum) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Armenian: նրանց (nrancʻ) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Armenian: իրենց (irencʻ) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Old Armenian: նոցա (nocʻa) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Old Armenian: նոսա (nosa) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Azerbaijani: onları — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Azerbaijani: onlara — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Azerbaijani: onlarda — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Azerbaijani: onlarla (commitative) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Azerbaijani: onlarsız — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Bulgarian: тях (tjah) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Bulgarian: им (im) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Burmese: သူတို့ (sutui.) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Burmese: သူများ (su-mya:) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Catalan: els — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Catalan: les — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Catalan: els — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chechen: царна (carna) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chinese: 𪜶 (zh-min-nan) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chinese Mandarin: 他們 /他们 (tāmen) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chinese Mandarin: 她們 /她们 (tāmen) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chinese Mandarin: 牠們 /它们 (tāmen) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Chinese Mandarin: 它們 /它们 (tāmen) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Czech: jich — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Czech: jim — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Czech: je — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Danish: dem — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Dutch: hen — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Dutch: hun — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Dutch: ze — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Esperanto: ili — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Esperanto: ilin — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ewe: wo — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Faroese: teir — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Faroese: tær — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Faroese: tey — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Faroese: teimum — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Faroese: teim — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: heidät — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: heitä — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: heillä — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: heille — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: heiltä — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: niille — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: niitä — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- French: les — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- French: leur — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Georgian: მათ (mat) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Georgian: იმათ (imat) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- German: ihnen — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- German: sie — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Haitian Creole: yo — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Hopi: pumuy — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Hungarian: őket — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Hungarian: azokat — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ido: li — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ido: ili — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ido: eli — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ido: oli — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Indonesian: mereka — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Irish: iad — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Irish: iadsan — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Old Irish: s- — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Old Irish: da- — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Old Irish: -us — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: loro — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: a loro — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: loro — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: li — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: le — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Italian: loro — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Judeo-Italian: אֵיסִי — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Kazakh: оларды (olardy) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Kituba: bau — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Latin: is — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Latin: ille — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Latin: hic — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Lingala: bangó — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Louisiana Creole: yé — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Manx: ad — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Manx: adsyn — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Māori: rāua — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Māori: rātau — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Māori: rātou — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Norwegian: dem — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: dem — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Polish: ich — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Polish: je — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Portuguese: os — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Portuguese: lhes — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Portuguese: as — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: ei — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: ele — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: îi — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: le — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: lor — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Romanian: le — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Russian: их (ix) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Russian: им (im) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Scots: thaim — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Slovak: im — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Slovak: ich — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Lower Sorbian: jej du — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Lower Sorbian: je — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Lower Sorbian: jeju du — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Lower Sorbian: jich — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: a ellos — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: a ellas — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: los — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: las — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: les — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Spanish: les — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Swedish: dem — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Turkish: onlar — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ukrainian: їх (jix) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Ukrainian: їм (jim) — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Venetan: lori — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Wolof: leen — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Yoruba: wọ́n — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Yoruba: wọn — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Zulu: bona — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Zulu: yona — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Zulu: wona — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Zulu: zona — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Zulu: zona — third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb
- Finnish: hänet — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: häntä — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: hänellä — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: hänelle — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: häneltä — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: sitä — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: sille — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: hälle — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Finnish: siltä — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Portuguese: ile — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Portuguese: elu — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Spanish: le — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender
- Swedish: hen — third-person singular pronoun of indeterminate gender