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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024them /ðɛm; unstressed ðəm, əm/USA pronunciation pron. - the form of the pronoun they used as a direct or indirect object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition:We saw them yesterday. I gave them the books. I ran toward them.
- Informal. (sometimes used instead of the pronoun they after the verb to be):It's them, across the street. It isn't them.
- (used instead of the pronoun their before a verbal noun ending in -ing, a gerund, or before a verbal adjective ending in -ing, a present participle):The boys' parents objected to them hiking without supervision.
adj. [before a noun]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024them (ᵺem; unstressed ᵺəm, əm),USA pronunciation pron. - the objective case of 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):It's them, across the street. It isn't them.
- [Informal.](used instead of the pronoun their before a gerund):The boys' parents objected to them hiking without adult supervision.
adj. - [Nonstandard.]those:He don't want them books.
- Old Norse theim them (dative); replacing Middle English tham(e), Old English thǣm, thām; compare they
- Middle English theym 1150–1200
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: them /ðɛm; (unstressed) ðəm/ pron - (objective) refers to things or people other than the speaker or people addressed: I'll kill them, what happened to them?
determiner - a nonstandard word for those: three of them oranges
Etymology: Old English thǣm, influenced by Old Norse theim; related to Old Frisian thām, Old Saxon, Old High German thēm, Old Norse theimr, Gothic thaimUSAGE
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