them

About 913.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. pronoun Those ones. Used as the direct object of a verb.

   She treated them for a cold.

2. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.

   She treated them for a cold.

3. pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.

   She wrote them a letter.

4. pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.

   Give it to them.

5. pronoun As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

   [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.

6. pronoun Used in isolation or apposition, or as the complement of the copula (be).

   Who was there? —Them.

7. pronoun A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or non-binary. Used as the direct object of a verb.

   If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.

8. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.

   If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.

Similar words

both ces children elles enemy forgive hem him home les

Often followed by

to in and as with from the for all