different between dem vs xem

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

Pronoun

xem

1. (nonstandard) Object-case of xe.
   • 1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism [1]

     Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

Anagrams

• MEX, Mex, Mex., mex

Mapudungun

Adjective

xem (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. adult

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?m/

Noun

xem f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. grief, sorrow, distress, worry, concern

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “xem”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Timote

Numeral

xem

1. two

Alternative forms

• xen

Further reading

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), page 128 (notes that this form, and xen, is used in both Timote and Cuica)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“to practise divination”, SV: chiêm).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [s?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [s?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [s?m??]

Verb

xem • (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ????)

1. to see; to look at; to watch; to read
2. to examine; to consider; to evaluate; to read (palm, future, etc.)

Derived terms

See also

• coi
• th?y