different between dem vs them

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Pronoun

dem

1. Nonstandard form of them.

Determiner

dem

1. Nonstandard form of them. (in the sense of "those")

   What are dem fings doing 'ere?

2. (Caribbean, Jamaican, MLE, slang) (clitic, suffix) A group of.
   • 2009, Dizzee Rascal, Chillin' Wiv Da Man Dem,

     Chillin' wiv da man dem

     Jammin' wiv da man dem

     It's all good in the hood wiv da man dem

   • 2010, Plan B, Stay Too Long,

     I’ve got my peeps dem with me shouting pull up your socks,

     Cos we just broke the law and now we're running from cops.

Noun

dem (plural dems)

1. Clipping of demonstration.

Anagrams

• D. Me., DME, EDM, Edm, MEd, Med, Med., med

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dama, from Proto-Indo-European *dm?h?-ó- (“bull”) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek ??????? (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh?- (“to tame”) (compare Latin dom?, English tame).

Noun

dem m (indefinite plural dema, definite singular demi, definite plural demat)

1. bull
2. main load-bearing beam in a floor

Declension

Synonyms

• ter

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/, [?d??m], [d??m], [b?m?]

Pronoun

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

1. them (3rd person plural, objective case)

See also

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?m/ (stressed) (for the pronoun)
• IPA^(key): /dem/, /d?m/, /dm?/ (unstressed) (for the article)

Article

dem

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

Pronoun

dem (relative)

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: to whom, to which

Declension

Derived terms

• dementsprechend
• demgegenüber
• demzufolge

Further reading

• “dem” in Duden online

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?/

Contraction

dem (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of de mo (“from my”).

Related terms

Latin

Verb

dem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of d?

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dem/, [d?m]

Determiner

dem m

1. unstressed form of deem

Declension

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English them.

Pronoun

dem

1. them, they

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?-, cognate with English time, Albanian ditë, Old Armenian ?? (ti) and Sanskrit ???? (d?tí, “brightness; time”).

Noun

dem f

1. time

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/

Pronoun

dem

1. them

See also

Pennsylvania German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/

Etymology

Compare German dem.

Article

dem m (definite)

1. the

Declension

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Pronoun

dem

1. them

References

• Speak Norfolk Today: an Encyclopaedia of the Norfolk Island Language, by Alice Buffett, 1999.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?m/

Pronoun

dem (third-person plural)

1. them; accusative/dative of de

Declension

Anagrams

• med, med.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tam-), from Proto-Turkic *täm- (“to drip”).

Noun

dem

1. dew

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian ??? (dam).

Noun

dem

1. breath
2. moment

Synonyms

• (breath): soluk
• (moment): an

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic ??? (dam).

Noun

dem

1. (obsolete, poetic) blood

Synonyms

• kan

Wolof

Pronunciation

Verb

dem

1. to go

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 100

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish dem.

Noun

dem ?

1. time

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC t?em).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /te?m??/
• Tone numbers: dem¹
• Hyphenation: dem

Verb

dem (old orthography dem)

1. to add

English

Alternative forms

• dem (nonstandard)
• em
• 'em

Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: th?m, IPA^(key): /ð?m/
  • (stressed, NYC) IPA^(key): [d??m]
• (unstressed) enPR: th?m, IPA^(key): /ð?m/
  • (unstressed, NYC) IPA^(key): [d??m]
  • (unstressed, nonstandard, General American) IPA^(key): /ð?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology

From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.

Pronoun

them (third-person, personal pronoun, objective case of they)

1. (in the plural) Those ones.
   1. Used as the direct object of a verb.

   2. Used as the indirect object of a verb.

   3. Used as the object of a preposition.

2. (in the singular) Him, her, or it; that one.
   1. Used as the direct object of a verb.
   2. Used as the indirect object of a verb.

   3. Used as the object of a preposition.

Usage notes

• Regarding the use of singular them, see they.

Related terms

Translations

See also

Determiner

them

1. (dialectal) Those.
   • 2005, Elmer Kelton, Sons of Texas, Tor/Forge (2005), page 111:

     " […] Them two wild horses ain't fit to ride, and I been wonderin' how I was goin' to get you out of this place before them Spanish maybe circle back and finish the job."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:them.

Anagrams

• meth, meth-

Albanian

Alternative forms

• thom
• tham

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *??m-, from Proto-Indo-European *?ens- (“to say, instruct, announce”). Cognate with Sanskrit ?????? (???sti, “to instruct, advise, command”), and Latin c?nse? (“I give an opinion, I judge, guess, reckon”). Potentially a doublet of rrëfej.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m]

Verb

them (first-person singular past tense thashë, participle thënë)

1. I say

Conjugation

Derived terms

• kundërthem

Kalo Finnish Romani

Etymology

From Romani them.

Noun

them m

1. country, state

Derived terms

References

• “them” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

them

1. Alternative spelling of þem (“them”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

them

1. Alternative spelling of þem (“the, that, this”)

Etymology 3

Noun

them (plural themes)

1. Alternative spelling of þem (“folk”)

Etymology 4

Noun

them (third-person singular simple present themeth, present participle themynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle themed)

1. Alternative spelling of þem (“to produce offspring”)

Romani

Noun

them m (plural thema)

1. country

Descendants

• Kalo Finnish Romani: them
• Welsh Romani: them

References

• Y?suke Sumi (2018) , “them”, in ??????????????????? [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, ?ISBN, page 144

Welsh Romani

Etymology

From Romani them.

Noun

them m (plural thema)

1. land, country
2. country (as opposed to town)
3. earth, world

Derived terms

References

• “them” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.