dem

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛm

dem

1. Nonstandard form of them.
   • 2007, February 25, “Sia Michel”, in Stephen Marley in Tallahassee, M.I.A. in India and Klaxons on Fire‎:

     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 *dm̥h₂-ó- (“bull”) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Latin domō, English tame).[1]

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

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

• ter

From clipping of English demonstrate.

dem

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

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

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

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

• 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

dem (relative)

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

• 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) IPA^(key): /dem/, [d̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (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

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 m (definite)

1. the

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
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

1. breath
2. moment

• (breath): soluk (obselete or regional)
• (moment): an (obselete or regional)

Borrowed from Arabic دم‎ (dam).

dem

1. (obsolete, poetic) blood

• kan

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