dem

See also: Dem, DEM, dêm, dëm, dem., Dem., -dem, đêm, and đếm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (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^[2]:

     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.
   • 2009, Dizzee Rascal, Chillin' Wiv Da Man Dem:

     Chillin' wiv da man dem
     Jammin' wiv da man dem
     It's all good in the hood wiv da man dem

   • 2010, Plan B, Stay Too Long:

     I’ve got my peeps dem with me shouting pull up your socks,
     Cos we just broke the law and now we're running from cops.

Derived terms

• gyal dem

Anagrams

• D. Me., DME, EDM, Edm, MEd, Med, Med., med

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

Declension of dem

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	dem	dema	demi	demat
accusative			demin
dative	demi	demave	demit	demavet
ablative		demash

Synonyms

• ter

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English demonstrate.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dem¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dem¹
    • Yale: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dem¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dém¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛːm⁵⁵/

Verb

dem

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to demonstrate; to show; to perform

Derived terms

• dem beat

 

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/, [ˈd̥ɛm], [d̥ɛm], [b̥m̩]

Pronoun

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

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

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

German

Pronunciation

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

• audio

  (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

• dementsprechend
• demgegenüber
• demzufolge

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛmˠ/

Contraction

dem (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of de mo (“from my”).

   Chrochas dem ghualainn é.

   I suspended it from my shoulder.

Related terms

Irish preposition contractions

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
	an (“the sg”)	na (“the pl”)	mo (“my”)	do (“your”)	a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár (“our”)	ar (“which (past)”)	(before consonant)	(present/future before vowel)	(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded*, det*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do (“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod*, dot*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi (“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i (“in”)	sa, san	sna	i mo im*	i do id*, it*	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le (“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led*, let*	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó (“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód*, ót*	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí (“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh
*Dialectal.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English them.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛm/

Pronoun

dem

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

Derived terms

• fi dem

Related terms

• mi
• yuh
• har
• im
• shi
• wi
• unnu

Particle

dem

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

   mi fren dem ― my friends

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dem/, [d̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dem/, [d̪ɛm]

Verb

dem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of dō

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dem/, [dəm]

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

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

Pronoun

dem

1. them

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Second formal (rare)	–	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
reflexive		–	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere		deres
	Second formal (very rare)	–	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
reflexive		–	-	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German dem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

Article

dem m (definite)

1. the

Declension

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	der	die	es	die
Accusative	der	die	es	die
Dative	dem	der	em	de

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Pronoun

dem

1. them

References

• Speak Norfolk Today: an Encyclopaedia of the Norfolk Island Language, by Alice Buffett, 1999.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔm/
• Homophone: de
• Rhymes: -ɔm

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

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also

• dom

Article

dem

1. Misspelling of de.

Anagrams

• med, med.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tam-), from Proto-Turkic *tem- (“to drip”).

Noun

dem

1. dew

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian دم‎ (dam).

Noun

dem

1. breath
2. moment

Synonyms

• (breath): soluk (obselete or regional)
• (moment): an (obselete or regional)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دم‎ (dam).

Noun

dem

1. (obsolete, poetic) blood

Synonyms

• kan

Wolof

Pronunciation

Audio

(file)

Verb

dem

1. to go

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 添 (MC them).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /teːm˨˦/
• Tone numbers: dem¹
• Hyphenation: dem

Verb

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

1. to add