{
    "term": "them",
    "partOfSpeech": "pronoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used when referring to people, animals or things as the object of a verb or preposition, or after the verb be",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Tell them the news."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are you doing with those matches? Give them to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Did you eat all of them?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's them."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used instead of him or her to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If anyone comes in before I get back, ask them to wait."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðəm//ðem/",
                "audio": "th/them/them__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðəm//ðem/",
                "audio": "th/them/them__us_3_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old Norse theim ‘to those, to them’, dative plural of sá; related to their and them."
}