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English Plural Person Pronoun Replaced 60.Them 英 ðem

正面 60.them
英 [ðem; ðəm]美 [ðəm]

背面
释义:
pron. 他们;它们;她们n. (Them)人名;(老)探
例句:
1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?我们活着是为了什么?不就是给邻居当笑柄,再反过来笑他们。

1. 同源词:an, one, only.2. an => on- + -e => one.3. an => on- + -ly => only.4. an 其实是 one 的古英语形式。
them 他们来自 they 的宾格形式,比较 he,him.
themthem: [12] The Old English set of forms of the third person plural pronoun was hīe, hiera, and him. These were replaced at the end of the Old English period by they, their, and them, which came from Old Norse, but the colloquial ’em for them is a lineal descendant of him.=> their, theythem (pron.)third person plural pronoun, c. 1200, from Old Norse þeim, dative of plural personal and demonstrative pronoun þeir (see they). Replaced Old English cognate him, heom."

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