them
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse þeimbor.
Middle English þem
English them
From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
Inflected forms:
form: of they
pos: pron
tags: objective
form: dem
pos: pron
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Those ones.
pos: pron
tags: in-plural
personal
pronoun
third-person
examples: She treated them for a cold.
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.
gloss: Those ones.
pos: pron
tags: in-plural
personal
pronoun
third-person
examples: She wrote them a letter.
gloss: Those ones.
pos: pron
tags: in-plural
personal
pronoun
third-person
examples: Give it to them.
gloss: Those ones.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
in-plural
nonstandard
personal
pronoun
third-person
uncommon
examples: [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
[…]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].
Them and the boys went to live with Auntie Madge and Uncle Herbie when Miss Violet died.
gloss: Those ones.
pos: pron
tags: 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.
gloss: A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
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.
Place the casualty on their back with feet and legs raised—this is called the shock position. [emphasis in original] Once the casualty is positioned, cover them to preserve body heat, but do not overheat.
Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, ‘Morning, Yaxley!’ Yaxley ignored them.
gloss: A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.
gloss: A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
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.
gloss: A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
uncommon
examples: "[…] 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.
gloss: A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
singular
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.
gloss: They or those.
pos: pron
tags: dialectal
personal
pronoun
third-person
examples: I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.
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.
Synonyms: dem
em
'em
hem
Related words: boydem
gentlethem
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 all
thembo
themness
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
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ata
lang: Albanian
word: ato
lang: Albanian
word: atyre
lang: Arabic
word: ـهُم
roman: -hum
lang: Arabic
word: ـهُنَّ
roman: -hunna
lang: Arabic
word: ـهُمَا
roman: -humā
lang: Arabic
word: إِيَّاهُم
roman: ʔiyyāhum
lang: Arabic
word: إِيَّاهُنَّ
roman: ʔiyyāhunna
lang: Arabic
word: إيَّاهُمَا
roman: ʔiyyāhumā
lang: Arabic
word: ـهم
roman: -hum
lang: Armenian
word: նրանց
roman: nrancʻ
lang: Armenian
word: իրենց
roman: irencʻ
lang: Old Armenian
word: նոցա
roman: nocʻa
lang: Old Armenian
word: նոսա
roman: nosa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: onları
lang: Azerbaijani
word: onlara
lang: Azerbaijani
word: onlarda
lang: Azerbaijani
word: onlarla (commitative)
lang: Azerbaijani
word: onlarsız
lang: Bulgarian
word: тях
roman: tjah
lang: Bulgarian
word: им
roman: im
lang: Burmese
word: သူတို့
roman: sutui.
lang: Burmese
word: သူများ
roman: su-mya:
lang: Catalan
word: els
lang: Catalan
word: les
lang: Catalan
word: els
lang: Chechen
word: царна
roman: carna
lang: Chinese
word: 𪜶
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 他們 /他们
roman: tāmen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 她們 /她们
roman: tāmen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 牠們 /它们
roman: tāmen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 它們 /它们
roman: tāmen
lang: Czech
word: jich
lang: Czech
word: jim
lang: Czech
word: je
lang: Danish
word: dem
lang: Dutch
word: hen
lang: Dutch
word: hun
lang: Dutch
word: ze
lang: Esperanto
word: ili
lang: Esperanto
word: ilin
lang: Ewe
word: wo
lang: Faroese
word: teir
lang: Faroese
word: tær
lang: Faroese
word: tey
lang: Faroese
word: teimum
lang: Faroese
word: teim
lang: Finnish
word: heidät
lang: Finnish
word: heitä
lang: Finnish
word: heillä
lang: Finnish
word: heille
lang: Finnish
word: heiltä
lang: Finnish
word: niille
lang: Finnish
word: niitä
lang: French
word: les
lang: French
word: leur
lang: Georgian
word: მათ
roman: mat
lang: Georgian
word: იმათ
roman: imat
lang: German
word: ihnen
lang: German
word: sie
lang: Haitian Creole
word: yo
lang: Hopi
word: pumuy
lang: Hungarian
word: őket
lang: Hungarian
word: azokat
lang: Ido
word: li
lang: Ido
word: ili
lang: Ido
word: eli
lang: Ido
word: oli
lang: Indonesian
word: mereka
lang: Irish
word: iad
lang: Irish
word: iadsan
lang: Old Irish
word: s-
lang: Old Irish
word: da-
lang: Old Irish
word: -us
lang: Italian
word: loro
lang: Italian
word: a loro
lang: Italian
word: loro
lang: Italian
word: li
lang: Italian
word: le
lang: Italian
word: loro
lang: Judeo-Italian
word: אֵיסִי
lang: Kazakh
word: оларды
roman: olardy
lang: Kituba
word: bau
lang: Latin
word: is
lang: Latin
word: ille
lang: Latin
word: hic
lang: Lingala
word: bangó
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: yé
lang: Manx
word: ad
lang: Manx
word: adsyn
lang: Māori
word: rāua
lang: Māori
word: rātau
lang: Māori
word: rātou
lang: Norwegian
word: dem
lang: Pitcairn-Norfolk
word: dem
lang: Polish
word: ich
lang: Polish
word: je
lang: Portuguese
word: os
lang: Portuguese
word: lhes
lang: Portuguese
word: as
lang: Romanian
word: ei
lang: Romanian
word: ele
lang: Romanian
word: îi
lang: Romanian
word: le
lang: Romanian
word: lor
lang: Romanian
word: le
lang: Russian
word: их
roman: ix
lang: Russian
word: им
roman: im
lang: Scots
word: thaim
lang: Slovak
word: im
lang: Slovak
word: ich
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: jej du
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: je
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: jeju du
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: jich
lang: Spanish
word: a ellos
lang: Spanish
word: a ellas
lang: Spanish
word: los
lang: Spanish
word: las
lang: Spanish
word: les
lang: Spanish
word: les
lang: Swedish
word: dem
lang: Turkish
word: onlar
lang: Ukrainian
word: їх
roman: jix
lang: Ukrainian
word: їм
roman: jim
lang: Venetan
word: lori
lang: Wolof
word: leen
lang: Yoruba
word: wọ́n
lang: Yoruba
word: wọn
lang: Zulu
word: bona
lang: Zulu
word: yona
lang: Zulu
word: wona
lang: Zulu
word: zona
lang: Zulu
word: zona
lang: Finnish
word: hänet
lang: Finnish
word: häntä
lang: Finnish
word: hänellä
lang: Finnish
word: hänelle
lang: Finnish
word: häneltä
lang: Finnish
word: sitä
lang: Finnish
word: sille
lang: Finnish
word: hälle
lang: Finnish
word: siltä
lang: Portuguese
word: ile
lang: Portuguese
word: elu
lang: Spanish
word: le
lang: Swedish
word: hen