Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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them

/ˈðɛm/ pronoun, noun, determiner

Also a form of they

Forms of they thems dem

  1. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb. “She treated them for a cold.”
  2. pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb. “She wrote them a letter.”
  3. pronoun Used as the object of a preposition. “Give it to them.”
  4. pronoun (nonstandard or colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction. “[...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.”
  5. pronoun Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be). “Who was there? —Them.”
  6. noun (uncommon) Synonym of they (“a non-binary person”).
  7. determiner (dialectal or nonstandard) Those. “Gimme two of them yellow ones.”

Synonyms

dem em 'em hem they

Etymology

From Middle English þem, from Old Norse þeim.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun The objective case of they. See They.

Etymology [AS. th\'d6m, dat. pl. of the article, but influenced by the Scand. use of the corresponding form Þeim as a personal pronoun. See They.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “them”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “them” (best matches first).

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