dem

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dem"

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:
      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).[1]

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

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
  • dem beat

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
  • 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 Firstmodern vi os vores
archaic / formal vor vort vore
Second– I jer jeres
Third– de dem deres
reflexive – sig

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)
  • audio(file)
  • 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

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.
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”)dende na
desna*		de mo
dem*		de do
ded*, det*		dá dárdardarbdarbh
do (“to, for”)dondo na
dosna*		do mo
dom*		do do
dod*, dot*		dá dárdardarbdarbh
faoi (“under, about”)faoinfaoi nafaoi mofaoi dofaoinafaoinár faoinarfaoinarbfaoinarbh
i (“in”)sa, sansnai mo
im*		i do
id*, it*		inainár inarinarbinarbh
le (“with”)leis anleis nale mo
lem*		le do
led*, let*		lenalenár lenarlenarblenarbh
ó (“from, since”)ónó na
ósna*		ó mo
óm*		ó do
ód*, ót*		ónaónár ónarónarbónarbh
trí (“through”)tríd antrí natrí motrí dotrínatrínár trínartrínarbtrínarbh
*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

Particle

dem

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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 general du deg di din ditt dine
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 general dere deres
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 (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
  • 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
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

Article

dem

  1. Misspelling of de.

Anagrams

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 (obsolete, poetic)

  1. breath
  2. moment
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دم (dam).

Noun

dem

  1. (obsolete, poetic) blood
Synonyms

Wolof

Pronunciation
Audio(file)

Verb

dem

  1. to go

Conjugation
Conjugation of dem
Present Imperfect Pluperfect Future
1st s. damay dem dama doon dem demoon naa dinaa dem
2nd s. dangay dem danga doon dem demoon nga dinga dem
3rd s. dafay dem dafa doon dem demoon na dina dem
1st p. dañuy dem dañu doon dem demoon nañu dinañu dem
2nd p. dangeen dem dangeen doon dem demoon ngeen dingeen dem
3rd p. deñuy dem deñu doon dem demoon nañu dinañu dem
Imperative
singular demal!
plural demleen!

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

Verb

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

  1. to add

Derived terms
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