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ðəm Pronoun Bre News Matches Give Eat Verb
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BrE / ðəm / NAmE / ðəm / |
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- tell them the news.
- what are you doing with those matches? give them to me.
- did you eat all of them?
- it's them.
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them(pronoun)BrE / ðəm / NAmE / ðəm / - used when referring to people, animals or things as the object of a verb or preposition, or after the verb be
- Tell them the news.
- What are you doing with those matches? Give them to me.
- Did you eat all of them?
- It's them.
- used instead of him or her to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known
- If anyone comes in before I get back, ask them to wait.
Word Origin- Middle English: from Old Norse theim ‘to those, to them’, dative plural of sá; related to their and them.
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