dem

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛm

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.

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.

• gyal dem

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

From Proto-Albanian *dama, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂ós (“bull”) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Latin domō, English tame).^[1]

dem m (plural dema, definite demi, definite plural demat)

1. bull
2. main load-bearing beam in a floor

• ter

dem

1. inflection of dar:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. first-person plural imperative

From clipping of English demonstrate.

dem

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

From clipping of English Democrat.

dem

1. (Internet slang, US Politics) The Democratic Party in the United States.
2. (Internet slang, US Politics) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.

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

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

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

dem

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

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

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dem

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

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

dem (relative)

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: to whom, to which

Declension of der
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	der	die	das	die
genitive	dessen	deren derer	dessen	deren derer
dative	dem	der	dem	denen
accusative	den	die	das	die

• dementsprechend
• demgegenüber
• demzufolge

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

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛmˠ/

dem (triggers lenition)

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

   Chrochas dem ghualainn é.

   I suspended it from my shoulder.

From English them.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛm/

dem

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

• fi dem

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

dem

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

   mi fren dem ― my friends

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

dem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of dō

• IPA^(key): /dem/, [dəm]

dem m

1. unstressed form of deem

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

From English them.

dem

1. them, they

From Proto-Indo-European *dī-, cognate with English time, Albanian ditë, Old Armenian տի (ti) and Sanskrit दीति (dītí, “brightness; time”).

dem f

1. time

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

dem

1. them

Compare German dem.

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

dem (definite)

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

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

From English them.

dem

1. them

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

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

dem (third-person plural)

1. them; accusative/dative of de

   De ser dem

   They see them

2. Misspelling of de.

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.

• dom

dem

1. Misspelling of de.

• med, med.

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

dem

1. dew

Borrowed from Persian دم (dam).

dem (obsolete, poetic)

1. breath
2. moment

• (breath): soluk
• (moment): an

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دم, from Arabic دَم (dam).^[1]

dem

1. (obsolete, poetic) blood

• kan

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dem

1. to go

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 100

Related to Northern Kurdish dem.

dem

1. time

From Chinese 添 (MC them).

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

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

1. to add