them.
Those ones.
Meaning & usage
Those ones. Used as the direct object of a verb.
She treated them for a cold.
Those ones. Used as the indirect object of a verb.
She wrote them a letter.
Those ones. Used as the object of a preposition.
Give it to them.
Those ones. As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
[...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
Those ones. 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. Used as the direct object of a verb.
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Used as the indirect object of a verb.
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. Used as the object of a preposition.
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary. 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.)
They or those.
I know it seems unfair, but them's the rules.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *þaimaz Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
Synonym of they (“a non-binary person”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *þaimaz Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
Those.
Gimme two of them yellow ones.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *þaimaz Old Norse þeimbor. Middle English þem English them From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.
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