Them in Different Languages
Discover 'Them' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Them
Afrikaans hulle | ||
Albanian ata | ||
Amharic እነሱን | ||
Arabic معهم | ||
Armenian նրանց | ||
Assamese তেওঁলোকক | ||
Aymara jupanakaru | ||
Azerbaijani onlara | ||
Bambara u | ||
Basque haiek | ||
Belarusian іх | ||
Bengali তাদের | ||
Bhojpuri उहनी लोग | ||
Bosnian njih | ||
Bulgarian тях | ||
Catalan ells | ||
Cebuano sila | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 他们 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 他們 | ||
Corsican elli | ||
Croatian ih | ||
Czech jim | ||
Danish dem | ||
Dhivehi އެމީހުން | ||
Dogri उनें | ||
Dutch hen | ||
English them | ||
Esperanto ilin | ||
Estonian neid | ||
Ewe wo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sila | ||
Finnish niitä | ||
French leur | ||
Frisian harren | ||
Galician eles | ||
Georgian მათ | ||
German sie | ||
Greek τους | ||
Guarani hikuái | ||
Gujarati તેમને | ||
Haitian Creole yo | ||
Hausa su | ||
Hawaiian lākou | ||
Hebrew אוֹתָם | ||
Hindi उन्हें | ||
Hmong lawv | ||
Hungarian őket | ||
Icelandic þá | ||
Igbo ha | ||
Ilocano isuda | ||
Indonesian mereka | ||
Irish iad | ||
Italian loro | ||
Japanese それら | ||
Javanese dheweke | ||
Kannada ಅವರು | ||
Kazakh оларды | ||
Khmer ពួកគេ | ||
Kinyarwanda bo | ||
Konkani तांकां | ||
Korean 그들 | ||
Krio dɛn | ||
Kurdish wê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئەوان | ||
Kyrgyz аларды | ||
Lao ພວກເຂົາ | ||
Latin illis | ||
Latvian tos | ||
Lingala bango | ||
Lithuanian juos | ||
Luganda bbo | ||
Luxembourgish hinnen | ||
Macedonian нив | ||
Maithili हुनकर | ||
Malagasy azy ireo | ||
Malay mereka | ||
Malayalam അവ | ||
Maltese minnhom | ||
Maori ratou | ||
Marathi त्यांना | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯈꯣꯏ | ||
Mizo anni | ||
Mongolian тэд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သူတို့ကို | ||
Nepali उनीहरु | ||
Norwegian dem | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) iwo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସେଗୁଡିକ | ||
Oromo isaan | ||
Pashto دوی | ||
Persian آنها | ||
Polish im | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) eles | ||
Punjabi ਉਹ | ||
Quechua paykuna | ||
Romanian lor | ||
Russian их | ||
Samoan latou | ||
Sanskrit ते | ||
Scots Gaelic iad | ||
Sepedi bona | ||
Serbian њих | ||
Sesotho bona | ||
Shona ivo | ||
Sindhi اهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඔවුන්ට | ||
Slovak ich | ||
Slovenian njim | ||
Somali iyaga | ||
Spanish ellos | ||
Sundanese aranjeunna | ||
Swahili wao | ||
Swedish dem | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sila | ||
Tajik онҳо | ||
Tamil அவர்களுக்கு | ||
Tatar алар | ||
Telugu వాటిని | ||
Thai พวกเขา | ||
Tigrinya ንሶም | ||
Tsonga vona | ||
Turkish onları | ||
Turkmen olar | ||
Twi (Akan) wɔn | ||
Ukrainian їх | ||
Urdu انہیں | ||
Uyghur ئۇلار | ||
Uzbek ularni | ||
Vietnamese họ | ||
Welsh nhw | ||
Xhosa kubo | ||
Yiddish זיי | ||
Yoruba wọn | ||
Zulu kubo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Middle Dutch, "hulle" also meant "hiding place". Later it gained the meaning "covering". |
| Albanian | The word 'ata' is also an acronym of the phrase 'Auto Transport Asociation'. |
| Amharic | The word "እነሱን" can also be used as a polite way to address someone without using a name. |
| Arabic | An alternate meaning of معهم is "in their presence" or "in their company". |
| Armenian | This Armenian term originally also referred to the third-person plural pronouns “they,” “their,” or "theirs" but fell out of common usage by the 18th century. |
| Azerbaijani | "Onlara" may refer to "to them" in Azerbaijani or "to the ones" in Turkish. |
| Basque | In Basque, "haiek" can also refer to an unspecified person or group, as in "ni haiek" (I and them). |
| Belarusian | The word "іх" in Belarusian can also be used to refer to a group of people or animals. |
| Bengali | The word 'তাদের' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'तेषाम्', which means 'of them'. |
| Bosnian | The word "njih" derives from Proto-Slavic "ny", meaning "their" or "them". |
| Bulgarian | "Тях" (them) is a personal pronoun in Bulgarian that is always used in the accusative case and can also be used to refer to animate objects. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "ells" can also refer to the unit of length known as an "ell," which is approximately 1.1 meters. |
| Cebuano | In some Cebuano words, the word 'sila' is used with an extended meaning referring to a plural third person subject, such as 'they' or 'people', rather than specifically referring to a group of people. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 他们 (Tā men) can also refer to people in general or those who are mentioned in the context |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 他們 can also mean "he" or "she" if the context is unclear or the speaker is referring to a non-specific person of either gender. |
| Corsican | Elli is an archaic form of “elli” which derives from Latin “illi” and means "those others". |
| Croatian | Ih (pronounced 'ee-uh') can also mean 'it' or 'there' in Croatian |
| Czech | Czech "jim" can also mean "to them," "at their place," or "at their house." |
| Danish | "Dem" can also mean "judge" or "those", depending on the context. |
| Dutch | Dutch "hen" is also a masculine first name and a synonym for a very small child. |
| Esperanto | The word "ilin" is also used to refer to the accusative case in Esperanto grammar. |
| Estonian | Neid can also be a 3rd-person plural personal pronoun in the accusative case, referring to inanimate things or persons considered as inanimate. |
| Finnish | Niitä can be used in a plural form, while niitä is always singular, even though both mean the same, 'them.' |
| French | In French, "leur" can also be a possessive adjective meaning "their" and a demonstrative pronoun meaning "theirs." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "harren" is also used to mean "their" in the genitive case. |
| Galician | The Galician word "eles" can also mean "others" or "people" in a general sense. |
| Georgian | The word მათ (mat) can also mean "their" or "theirs" in Georgian. |
| German | The word "Sie" in German can also be used as a formal way to address a person, similar to "you" in English. |
| Greek | "Τους" in Greek can also mean "the" or "their" depending on the context. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "તેમને" can also mean "them there" or "those people". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "yo" derives from French "eux" and can also mean "they" when referring to people. |
| Hausa | The word "su" in Hausa is derived from the Proto-West-Atlantic root *su, which also means "their" in many other West African languages such as Fulani, Wolof, and Serer. |
| Hawaiian | The word "lākou" also means "their" or "theirs" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word "אותם" (otam) in Hebrew can also refer to "letters" in a written text. |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "उन्हें" can also mean "to them" or "for them" depending on the context. |
| Hmong | The word "lawv" in Hmong also means "all" or "everything". |
| Icelandic | In the Old Norse languages, the word þá could also mean 'then'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'ha' can also be used to mean 'they' or 'their'. |
| Indonesian | The word 'mereka' derives from the Proto-Austronesian word '*miRa' meaning 'you (plural)'. |
| Irish | In the phrase 'iad an' ('one of'), 'iad' is a mutated version of the word for 'they'. |
| Italian | In Italian, "loro" (which means "them") derives from the Latin pronoun "illorum" and can also mean "their". |
| Japanese | The word "それら" can also be used to refer to inanimate objects, similar to the English word "they". |
| Javanese | The word "dheweke" in Javanese can also refer to "the people who are present" or "the ones who are involved in a particular situation". |
| Kannada | The word "ಅವರು" in Kannada has its roots in the Sanskrit word "अथ" (atha), meaning "now" or "next." |
| Kazakh | Оларды, derived from the Old Turkic word olar meaning |
| Khmer | ពួកគេ is also used informally to refer to a respected person or group of people, expressing endearment or admiration. |
| Korean | "그들" can also mean "those," "them," or "they" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | 'Wê' also refers to the plural of 'tu', meaning 'you'. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, "аларды" can also mean "about them" or "at them" depending on the context. |
| Lao | "ພວກເຂົາ" can also be used to refer to a group of people in a more general sense, similar to the English word "they". |
| Latin | Illis can also mean "to them" or "for them" depending on the context. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "tos" (them) is derived from the Old Prussian word "tons" (they). |
| Lithuanian | The word "juos" in Lithuanian, besides meaning "them" also has an archaism for "those" and "ones". |
| Luxembourgish | In addition to its meaning "them", "hinnen" can also mean "here" or "now" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "нив" is derived from the Proto-Slavic reflexive pronoun "*se" and is used in many other Slavic languages as well. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "azy ireo" can also refer to people in general, or be used as a polite form of address for someone unknown or unfamiliar. |
| Malay | The word "mereka" in Malay can also refer to the third person plural pronoun "they". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word for 'them' can trace its roots back to the Proto-Dravidian word 'ava'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "minnhom" can also refer to a certain someone that needs not be mentioned or who should not be mentioned |
| Maori | The word "ratou" can also mean "they" or "them". |
| Marathi | त्यांना is the plural form of तू (you), and is used to refer to a group of two or more people. |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, "тэд" (te̱d) can also refer to "those" or "they" in the third person plural. |
| Nepali | उनीहरु, meaning 'they' in Nepali, originates from the Sanskrit pronoun 'तद्' (tad), indicating a distal third person. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "dem" has an additional meaning of "those people", often referring to a specific group or category of individuals. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Iwo" is also the name for a type of Nyanja dance. |
| Pashto | The word "دوی" in Pashto also means "they" and "their". |
| Persian | Persian |
| Polish | The Polish word "im" can also mean "to them" or "by them". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "eles" is also used to refer to plural second person formal pronouns, as in "Tratamos deles" (We'll treat you). |
| Punjabi | 'ਉਹ' is also frequently used to replace personal pronouns referring to people or beings that have recently been referenced. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "lor" is derived from Proto-Slavic, possibly via Hungarian. |
| Russian | The Russian word "их" ("them") is also used to form possessive pronouns, such as "ихний" ("their") or "ихняя" ("their"), and can be used in a plural form to mean "their" as well. |
| Samoan | The word "latou" in Samoan can also refer to a group of people who are closely related, such as a family or a clan. |
| Scots Gaelic | Iad (Scots Gaelic for "them") can also refer to an island in the Outer Hebrides. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "њих" can also be used to refer to a group of people or things that are unknown or unspecified. |
| Sesotho | The word "bona" can also mean "good" or "beautiful" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | In addition to meaning "them", "ivo" can also mean "those" or "the ones" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi "اهي" means 'they' in the nominative case but also means 'their' in the genitive case. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ඔවුන්ට" can also mean "to them" or "for them" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "ich" can also mean "their" (genitive), "theirs," or "those" (plural). |
| Slovenian | The word "njim" can also mean "to them" in Serbo-Croatian. |
| Somali | Somali 'iyaga' is derived from the Proto-Cushitic root *yag ('they'). |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "ellos" can also be used as a possessive pronoun, meaning "their". |
| Sundanese | The word "aranjeunna" in Sundanese can also refer to the third person plural pronoun "they" or the third person singular pronoun "he" or "she" when used in a respectful or formal context. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "wao" can also be used to refer to a group of people who share a common interest or characteristic. |
| Swedish | The word "dem" in Swedish can also be used to refer to a group of people, such as a family or a team. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Sila, the Tagalog equivalent of "them," is also used for "he" when the speaker is talking to an elder or when referring to a male with respect. |
| Tajik | Although "онҳо" is usually translated as "them" in English, it can also be used to refer to people in a more general sense or to indicate a group of people. |
| Tamil | The word 'அவர்களுக்கு' in Tamil can also be used to mean 'in place of' or 'as a substitute for'. |
| Telugu | The word 'వాటిని' ('them') in Telugu can also refer to a group of animals or inanimate objects. |
| Thai | พวกเขา (phụk kĥao) contains 'เขา' which also means horn, but is a different word to 'เขา' (mountain). |
| Turkish | "Onlar" can also mean "they" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "їх" can also be used to refer to inanimate objects or concepts, similar to the French "leur". |
| Urdu | The word "انہیں" can also be used as an intensifier, similar to the English word "indeed" or "very". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "ularni" (them) is a plural form of the word "u" (he, she, it). |
| Vietnamese | "Họ" is also an interrogative pronoun meaning "who?" when used in a question. |
| Welsh | In Old Welsh, "nhw" also referred to "this one" or "the one here" when used as a demonstrative pronoun. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "kubo" can also refer to a place or location, particularly a homestead or dwelling place. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זיי" (zey) is derived from the Hebrew word "הֵם" (hem), which means "they" or "them." |
| Yoruba | "Wọn" can also mean "they" or "their" in English. |
| Zulu | "Kubo" is also used informally to refer to a group of people, like a gang or a team. |
| English | The word 'them' can also refer to a group of people or things, or to a particular object or concept that has been mentioned previously. |