Meaning & use

Them

pronoun·Everyday

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Used to refer to the people or things previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition.

See it in a sentence

I saw the twins yesterday and gave them the tickets.

The books were on the shelf, so she picked them up.

A note on using this word

'Them' is the objective case of 'they' and has become widely accepted as a gender-neutral singular pronoun for a person whose gender is unspecified or nonbinary.

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