Barbados
Grenada
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
US Virgin Islands
pronoun
Them - third person plural
also known as
de, dem de, dende, dey
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Grenada
Jamaica
pronoun
Those or these. The plural form of 'that' or 'this'.
also known as
dende
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Grenada
Jamaica
US Virgin Islands
adjective
A modifying suffix used to pluralise nouns.
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2 comments
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n
15 years ago

In the Virgin Islands, dem is used to make a plural like in "mangoose-dem". It is also used to associate people and form a plural from one person's name such as "Lisa-dem" or "Lisa an dem" meaning "Lisa and the rest of the group" or "Lisa and the family".

Grenada
Grenada
2 years ago

These/those