'em

FREQ #6805

发音

US /əm/

别名

em 'hem 'm 'um hem

释义与例句

pron.
  1. 1.

    Them (now only in unstressed position following a consonant).

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词源

From earlier hem, from Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative) of hie, originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. Cognate with Dutch hun (“them”), German ihnen (“them”). Now often treated as a colloquial apheretic form of them, which however derives from Old Norse rather than Old English.

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