Sekirov Dictionary

them

/ˈðɛm/

pronoun 8
determiner 1
noun 1
forms 1
phrases 2

pronoun[in the plural]8

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people or things already mentioned, used when an action is directed at that group
- She treated them for a cold.
Those ones.
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Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- She wrote them a letter.
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Used as the object of a preposition.
- Give it to them.
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Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- Who was there? —Them.
- Who did this? —Them. They did it. (or:) It was them. They did it.)
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.
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(informal, nonstandard) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
- [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
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(dialect) They or those.
- I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.

determiner1

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(dialect) Those.
- Gimme two of them yellow ones.

noun1

Synonym of they (“a non-binary person”).

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thems

Phrases with them

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