Word: them Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Etymology tree Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim. Pronunciation: /ˈðɛm/, [ˈðʌm], [ˈðɪm], /ðəm/ 1. Those ones. Labels: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person Example: She treated them for a cold. Example: Proponents of adding a gender-neutral option to state identification documents say it would remove a form of discrimination against nonbinary people by providing them with the means to carry identification that matches their identity. 2. Those ones. Labels: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person Example: She wrote them a letter. 3. Those ones. Labels: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person Example: Give it to them. 4. Those ones. Labels: colloquial, in-plural, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, third-person, uncommon Example: [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together. Example: […]Illinois, told Christina Holmes Tillson (just arrived from Connecticut herself) : “I am getting skeery about them 'ere Yankees. There is such a power of them coming in that them and the Injuns will squatch out [everyone else]. 5. Those ones. Labels: in-plural, personal, pronoun, third-person Example: Who was there? —Them. Example: Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.) 6. A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Labels: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person Example: If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them. Example: If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, […] [t]hen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 7. A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Labels: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person Example: If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. 8. A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Labels: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person Example: If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them. Example: Each adolescent girl with ASD has needs specific to her because each of them has variable characteristics and different degrees of sensory and perceptual difficulties. 9. A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Labels: colloquial, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person, uncommon Example: "[…] he said that everybody was being watched, and if they seen anybody giving Union cards to anybody on Company property, that them and the person receiving the card, they would both be fired. 10. A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Labels: personal, pronoun, singular, third-person Example: Who was there? —Them. Example: Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.) 11. They or those. Labels: dialectal, personal, pronoun, third-person Example: I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules. Example: And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.