هُم they in Arabic
هُم is how you say “they” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قال هم الجلساء لا يشقى بهم جليسهم
He said: They are the sitting companions; no one who sits with them will be wretched.
هُمُ They are
This is the subject pronoun 'they', opening a verbless sentence — 'they [are]...'. It announces the group before the predicate names them.
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More example sentences
ونظيره قوله سبحان ﴿لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَلا هُمْ مِنَّا يُصْحَبُونَ﴾
And a similar idea is in His saying, "They are unable to help themselves, nor are they assisted by Us."
هُمْ are they
A standalone 'they' subject pronoun, placed before its verb for emphasis on the persons. Fronting the pronoun like this stresses 'they themselves', and the verb's passive that follows then says they receive no aid.
من هم أولو الأمر
[Who are those in authority?]
هُم they
A standalone subject pronoun, 'they', used here as a linking word between the question-word and the description, 'who are they, the...'. Arabic inserts this pronoun to join two nouns into a clear sentence without any verb 'are'.