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هُم
they /ˈhum/
otherA1#197 most common
Also: them, those
Example sentences
هُم أَصْدِقائي.
They are my friends.
هُم يَلْعَبونَ في الحَديقة.
They are playing in the park.
هَل تَعْرِفُ أَيْنَ هُم الآنَ؟
Do you know where they are now?
هُمُ الَّذينَ بَنَوا هٰذا البَيْتَ بِأَيْديهِم.
They are the ones who built this house with their own hands.
ما زِلْتُ لا أَعْرِفُ ما إِذا كانوا هُم مَنْ أَرْسَلوا الرِّسالةَ.
I still do not know whether they were the ones who sent the message.
لَوْلا هُم لَما تَحَقَّقَ شَيْءٌ مِمّا نَراهُ اليَوْمَ مِنْ إِنْجازات.
Were it not for them, none of the achievements we see today would have come about.
Word family
هُوَheهِيَshe
هُنَّthey (feminine plural)
هُمَاthey two (dual)
ـهُمtheir, them (possessive or object enclitic)
Etymology
هُم is the Semitic third person masculine plural pronoun. It descends from a Proto-Semitic form built on an h- pronominal base plus a plural marker. The same base runs through the Arabic pronoun set, including هُوَ for 'he' and هِيَ for 'she'.
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