dem

English Online Dictionary. What means dem‎? What does dem mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/
• Rhymes: -ɛm

Pronoun

dem

1. Nonstandard form of them.

Determiner

dem

1. Nonstandard form of them. (in the sense of "those")

2. (Caribbean, Jamaica, MLE, slang) (clitic, suffix) A group of.

Derived terms

• gyal dem

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Etymology

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).

Noun

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

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

Declension

Synonyms

• ter

References

Catalan

Verb

dem

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

From clipping of English demonstrate.

Pronunciation

Verb

dem

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From clipping of English Democrat.

Proper noun

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.

Danish

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

dem (nominative de, possessive deres)

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

See also

Galician

Verb

dem

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

German

Pronunciation

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

Article

dem

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

Pronoun

dem (relative)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• dementsprechend
• demgegenüber
• demzufolge

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛmˠ/

Contraction

dem (triggers lenition)

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

Related terms

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English them.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛm/

Pronoun

dem

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

Derived terms

• fi dem

Related terms

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

Particle

dem

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

   mi fren dem ― my friends

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of dō

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dem/, [dəm]

Determiner

dem m

1. unstressed form of deem

Declension

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English them.

Pronoun

dem

1. them, they

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

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

Noun

dem f

1. time

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

Pronoun

dem

1. them

See also

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German dem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛm/

Article

dem (definite)

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English them.

Pronoun

dem

1. them

References

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

dem (third-person plural)

1. them; accusative/dative of de

2. Misspelling of de.

Usage notes

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.

Declension

See also

• dom

Article

dem

1. Misspelling of de.

Anagrams

• med, med.

Turkish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

dem

1. dew

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian دم (dam).

Noun

dem (obsolete, poetic)

1. breath
2. moment

Synonyms

• (breath): soluk
• (moment): an

Etymology 3

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دم, from Arabic دَم (dam).

Noun

dem

1. (obsolete, poetic) blood

Synonyms

• kan

References

Wolof

Pronunciation

Verb

dem

1. to go

Conjugation

References

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

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish dem.

Noun

dem

1. time

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 添 (MC them).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to add

Derived terms