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them
[ them; unstressed thuhm, uhm ]
pronoun
- the objective case of plural they, used as a direct or indirect object:
We saw them yesterday. I gave them the books.
- Informal. (used instead of the pronoun they in the predicate after the verb to be ): No, that isn’t them.
It's them, across the street.
No, that isn’t them.
- Informal. (used instead of the pronoun their before a gerund):
The boys' parents objected to them hiking without adult supervision.
- the objective case of singular they, used as a direct or indirect object:
- (used to refer to a generic or unspecified person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context): If an officer were to ask you that question directly, you would have to answer them honestly.
If you know anyone looking for a job, tell them to contact me.
If an officer were to ask you that question directly, you would have to answer them honestly.
- (used to refer to a specific or known person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
I can’t believe your ex took your cat with them when they moved out.
- (used to refer to a nonbinary or gender-nonconforming person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):
Randi’s on vacation, so you can’t see them until next week.
adjective
- Nonstandard. those:
He don't want them books.
them
/ ðəm; ðɛm /
pronoun
- objective refers to things or people other than the speaker or people addressed
what happened to them?
I'll kill them
- a dialect word for themselves
they got them a new vice president
determiner
- a nonstandard word for those
three of them oranges
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of them1
Example Sentences
Gaitok sees another robbery about to happen with the three Russians, chases them and is ambushed by one of the Russians who takes his gun and shoots him.
“After they do their time as of now, we have to release them into the general population, and I believe that is wrong,†he said.
Buoyed by the loyalty of his supporters, Yoon wrote in a letter to them in January that it was only after being impeached that he "felt like a president".
"I started getting a couple of fines, and I was young and had just started driving, so I would pay them because I was scared," said Miss Robinson, from Stockton-on-Tees.
"These games are taking longer to make, they require more people to make them," he said.
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