dem

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛm/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛm

Pronoun

dem

  1. Nonstandard form of them.
    • 2007 February 25, Sia Michel, “Stephen Marley in Tallahassee, M.I.A. in India and Klaxons on Fire”, in New York Times:
      Go tell dem natty dreadlocks no wear handcuff,” advises Damian Marley, his guest star and younger brother, who accuses the officers of jealousy.

Determiner

dem

  1. Nonstandard form of them. (in the sense of "those")
    What are dem fings doing 'ere?
  2. (Caribbean, Jamaica, MLE, slang) (clitic, suffix) A group of.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dama, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- (bull) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, calf)), from *demh₂- (to tame) (compare Latin domō, English tame).

Noun

dem m (plural dema, definite demi, definite plural demat)

  1. bull
  2. main load-bearing beam in a floor

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 48

Catalan

Verb

dem

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. first-person plural imperative

Chinese

Etymology 1

From clipping of English demonstrate.

Pronunciation


Verb

dem

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to demonstrate; to show; to perform
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From clipping of English Democrat.

Proper noun

dem

  1. (Internet slang, US Politics) Democratic Party (United States).
  2. (Internet slang, US Politics) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.

Danish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

  1. them (3rd person plural, objective case)

See also

Galician

Verb

dem

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deːm/ (stressed) (for the pronoun)
  • IPA(key): /dem/, /dəm/, /dm̩/ (unstressed) (for the article)
  • (file)
  • (file)

Article

dem

  1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

German definite articles
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative der die das die
Genitive des der des der
Dative dem der dem den
Accusative den die das die

Pronoun

dem (relative)

  1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: to whom, to which

Declension

Declension of der
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative der die das die
genitive dessen deren
younger also: derer
dessen derer
deren
dative dem der dem denen
accusative den die das die

Derived terms

Further reading

  • dem” in Duden online
  • dem” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Pronunciation

Contraction

dem (triggers lenition)

  1. (Munster) Contraction of de mo (from my).
    Chrochas dem ghualainn é.
    I suspended it from my shoulder.

Related terms

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English them.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dem

  1. they (plural)
  2. them (plural)
  3. theirs (plural possessive)

Derived terms

Related terms

Particle

dem

  1. (postpositive) when placed after a noun phrase, the particle marks it as plural
    mi fren demmy friends

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

dem

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

Determiner

dem m

  1. unstressed form of deem

Declension

Luxembourgish definite articles
masculine feminine neuter plural
nom./acc. deen (den) déi (d') dat (d') déi (d')
dat. deem (dem) där (der) deem (dem) deen (den)
gen. der

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English them.

Pronoun

dem

  1. them, they

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dī-, cognate with English time, Albanian ditë, Old Armenian տի (ti) and Sanskrit दीति (dītí, brightness; time).

Noun

dem f

  1. time

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dem

  1. them

See also

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German dem.

Pronunciation

Article

dem (definite)

  1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

Pennsylvania German definite articles
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative der die es die
Dative dem or em der dem or em de
Accusative der or den die es die

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English them.

Pronoun

dem

  1. them

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dem (third-person plural)

  1. them; accusative/dative of de
  2. Misspelling of de.

Usage notes

In most dialects, de (they) and dem (them) are no longer distinguished in speech. They are regularly mixed up in writing by native speakers, due to lack of grammatical intuition. The article de is often mixed up with dem as well.

Declension

See also

Article

dem

  1. Misspelling of de.

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Turkic (tam-), from Proto-Turkic *tem- (to drip).

Noun

dem

  1. dew

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian دم (dam).

Noun

dem (obsolete, poetic)

  1. breath
  2. moment
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دم (dam).

Noun

dem

  1. (obsolete, poetic) blood
Synonyms

Wolof

Pronunciation

(file)

Verb

dem

  1. to go

Conjugation

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 100

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish dem.

Noun

dem

  1. time

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese (MC them).

Pronunciation

Verb

dem (Sawndip form 𣷹, 1957–1982 spelling dem)

  1. to add

Derived terms