dem

Naija

Etymology

From English: them

Pronunciation

• dɛ̀m

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 862
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 24
• Frequency in raw corpus: 61765
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5

Pronoun

Wetin dey use talk about someting wey pass one.

• Pikin dem.  — ( Egbokhare_2020, The children.)
• Mama dem, train up your pikin dem o, so dat dem no go call you devil woman tomorrow.  — (deuber__1720, Mothers should train up their children, so not to be called names in the future.)
• And I hear sey wetin dey talk for research say children fit learn up to fourteen languages at the same time if you dey speak all for dem to am.  — (ENU_05_Children-Culture-And-Igbo_DG__93, According to research, I heard children can learn up to fourteen languages at the same time if you speak all of it to them.)

Translations

• English: plural marker

Pronoun

Wetin person dey use talk about person wey no dey dere.

• Dem give me cup.  — (Egbokhare _2020, They gave me a cup.)
• Because me, and dem no dey relate.  — (LAG_26_Selling-Drinks_DG__53, Because I don't relate with them.)
• I no know dem and I no dey work for dem.  — (bbc__7689, I do not know them, neither do I work for them.)
• You know all dose kind men, some of dem dem go go drink.  — (NST_cleaned__21868, You know those kind of men, are the ones who go about drinking.)

Translations

• English: them