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these

See also: These, thèse, and þese

these - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thēz, IPA: /ðiːz/
  • (General American) IPA: /ðiz/

Determiner

these

  1. plural of this

Usage notes

Depending on the context, the word those may be used either in place of or interchangeably with these.

Translations

  • Arabic: (nonhuman pl) هٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi), هٰؤُلَاءِ‎ pl (hāʔulāʔi)
    • Gulf Arabic: هذيل‎ (haḏēl), هذيلي‎ (haḏēli), هذول‎ (haḏōl)
    • Hijazi Arabic: هذول‎ (hādōl, hadōl), هذولا‎ (hādōla, hadōla), ذول‎ (dōl), ذولا‎ (dōla)
  • Armenian: այս (hy) (ays)
  • Azerbaijani: bunlar
  • Beja: een m, taan f
  • Belarusian: гэ́тыя pl (hétyja)
  • Bulgarian: ти́я (tíja), те́зи (bg) (tézi)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 這些／这些 (zh) (zhèxiē)
    • Cantonese: 呢啲 (ni1 di1, nei1 di1)
    • Hakka: 這兜／这兜 (yá-têu, liá-têu)
    • Min Nan:
      • Hokkien: 遮的 (zh-min-nan) (chiâ-ê, chiah-ê, chia-ê), 拽 (choâi, choai)
      • Teochew: 只撮 (zi2 coh4)
  • Classical Nahuatl: inihqueh in
  • Czech: tito (cs), tyto (cs), tato (cs)
  • Dutch: die (nl) m or f, deze (nl) m or f
  • Esperanto: ĉi tiuj, tiuj ĉi
  • Estonian: need (et) pl
  • Finnish: nämä (fi)
  • French: ces (fr) m or f, ces …-ci pl
  • Georgian: ესენი (eseni)
  • German: diese (de)
  • Greenlandic: makku
  • Guaraní: ko'ã
  • Hopi: ima
  • Hungarian: ezek (hu), ezeket (hu)
  • Icelandic: þessir (is) m, þessar (is) f, þessi (is) n
  • Ido: ici (io) pl, ci (io) pl
  • Ingrian: nämät
  • Interlingua: iste (ia)
  • Italian: questi (it)
  • Japanese: この (ja) (kono) (same as singular), (for plural) これらの (korera-no)
  • Kazakh: бұлар (kk) (būlar)
  • Macedonian: овие pl (ovie)
  • Maltese: dawn
  • Maori: ēnei
  • Norwegian: disse (no)
  • Polish: te (pl) pl or f, ci (pl) pl or m (see: ten for all forms)
  • Portuguese: estes (pt) (1st person, close to the speaker); esses (pt) (2nd person, close to the listener)
  • Romanian: acești m pl, aceste f pl, ăștia m pl (informal), astea f pl (informal)
  • Russian: э́ти (ru) pl (éti)
  • Scots: thir
  • Scottish Gaelic: seo
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ови pl
    • Roman: ovi (sh) pl
  • Slovak: títo
  • Slovene: ti (sl) pl
  • Spanish: estos (es) m, estas (es) f
  • Swedish: de här (sv), dessa (sv), dom här (informal)
  • Talysh:
  • Thai: เหล่านี้ (làoníi)
    • Asalemi: ام‎ (əm)
  • Ukrainian: ці pl (ci)
  • Walloon: ces (wa) m or f (followed by adverb "ci" or "cial" or "vola" after noun)

Pronoun

these

  1. plural of this

Translations

Anagrams

these - Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈteː.zə/
  • Hyphenation: the‧se

Noun

these f (plural theses or thesen)

  1. statement, thesis, proposition
  2. thesis (lengthy essay)

Usage notes

  • These and proefschrift are general terms for any thesis or dissertation submitted for the attainment of an academic degree, whereas scriptie usually refers specifically to a final assignment as part of a bachelor's or master's degree and dissertatie usually refers to a doctoral (Ph.D.) thesis.

these - Latin

Noun

these

  1. ablative singular of thesis

these - Middle English

Determiner

these

  1. Alternative spelling of þese

Pronoun

these

  1. Alternative spelling of þese

Noun

these

  1. Alternative spelling of þese (plural of þe (“thigh”))

these - Old Dutch

Determiner

these

  1. this, these

Inflection

Singular Plural
Masculine Neuter Feminine
nominative these thit thiusa thiese
accusative thesen thit thesa thesa
genitive theses theses therro therre
dative thesemo thesemo therro thesum
instrumental thise

Descendants

these - Old Saxon

Determiner

these m

  1. this, these
    • an thesum uueroldrīkea uuirkean scoldin: They should work on this world.

Declension

Descendants

  • Low German: düsse, disse

these - Portuguese

Noun

these f (plural theses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tese (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
Meaning and Definition of these
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