this

See also: This, thîs, and þis

this - English

Pronunciation

enPR: thĭs, thəs, IPA: /ðɪs/, /ðəs/

Determiner

this (plural these)

The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
- This classroom is where I learned to read and write.
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
- They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
- When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “[…]”
(informal) A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
- I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible!
- There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.
(of a time reference) Designates the current or next instance.
- Coordinate term: next
- It's cold this morning.
- I plan to go to London this Friday.
(colloquial, with stress on this) Referring to oneself.

Derived terms

Related terms

that, these, those

Translations

Afrikaans: dit (af)
Albanian: ky (sq) m, kjo (sq) f
Apache:
- Western Apache: dii
Arabic: هٰذَا‎ (ar) m (hāḏā), هٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi), هٰذَانِ‎ m du (hāḏāni), هَاتَانِ‎ f du (hātāni), هٰؤُلَاءِ‎ pl (hāʔulāʔi)
- Egyptian Arabic: ده‎ m (da), دي‎ f (di), دول‎ pl (dūl)
- Moroccan Arabic: هاد‎ (hād)
- Tunisian Arabic: هاذ‎ (hāḏ)
- South Levantine Arabic: هاد‎ m (hād), هادا‎ m (hāda), هادي‎ f (hādi), هاي‎ f (hāy), هدول‎ pl (hadōl)
Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܐ‎ m (ʾawwā, ʾāwā), ܐܝܐ‎ f (ʾayyā, ʾāyā), ܐܗܐ‎ c (ʾāhā)
- Classical Syriac: ܗܢܐ‎ m (hānā), ܗܕܐ‎ f (hāḏē)
- Jewish Aramaic: הנא‎ m (hānā), הדא‎ f (hāḏē)
Armenian: այս (hy) (ays)
Aromanian: aistu, aestu
Ashkun: iāk
Asturian: esti (ast) m, esta (ast) f
Azerbaijani: bu (az)
Bashkir: был (bıl), ошо (oşo)
Basque: hau (eu)
Belarusian: гэ́ты (be) m (héty), гэ́тая f (hétaja), гэ́та (be) n (héta), гэ́тыя pl (hétyja)
Bengali: (adjective) এই (bn) (ei), (pronoun, informal) এইটা (bn) (eiṭa), এটা (bn) (eṭa), (pronoun, formal) এইটি (bn) (eiṭi), এটি (bn) (eṭi)
Bhojpuri: ई (ī)
Bikol Central: ini (bcl)
Bulgarian: то́зи (tózi), та́зи f (tázi), това́ n (tová), те́зи (bg) pl (tézi)
Burmese: ဟောဒီ (my) (hau:di), အနှီ (my) (a.hni)
Buryat: энэ (ene)
Catalan: aquest (ca) m, aquesta (ca) f, est (ca), este (ca)
Cebuano: (closer to the speaker) kari, (close to both listener and speaker) kani
Chamicuro: ana'ye
Chechen: хӏара (hara)
Cherokee: ᎯᎠ (hia)
Chinese:
- Cantonese: 這／这 (ze⁵) (literary), 呢 (yue) (ni¹) (vernacular), 此 (chi²) (vernacular or classical)
- Dungan: җы (žɨ)
- Hakka: 這／这 (ché)
- Mandarin: 這／这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi), 此 (zh) (cǐ) (literary, classical)
- Min Dong: 之 (cĭ), 茲／兹 (cī)
- Wu: 搿 (geq)
Classical Nahuatl: inin
Cree:
- Plains Cree: awa anim sg, ôki anim pl, ôma inan sg, ôhi inan pl
Czech: tento (cs) m, tato (cs) f, toto (cs) n
Danish: denne (da) c, dette (da) n
Dhivehi: މި‎ (mi)
Dolgan: бу (bu)
Dutch: deze (nl) m or f or pl, dit (nl) n
Emilian: sté
Esperanto: ĉi tiu, tiu ĉi
Estonian: see (et)
Extremaduran: esti
Faroese: hesin (fo) m, henda (fo) f, hetta n
Finnish: tämä (fi)
French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f, ce ... ci m, cette ... ci f
- Old French: cist, cest, cestui
Friulian: chest
Galician: este (gl) m
Georgian: ის (ka) (is), ეს (es)
German: dieser (de)
Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌰 (hina)
Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós), τούτος (el) m (toútos) (colloquial), ετούτος (el) m (etoútos) (colloquial)
- Ancient: οὗτος m (hoûtos), αὕτη f (haútē), τοῦτο n (toûto); ὅδε m (hóde), ἥδε f (hḗde), τόδε n (tóde)
Greenlandic: manna, matuma
Hausa: wannan
Hawaiian: kēia
Hebrew: זֶה‎ (he) m (ze), זֹאת‎ (he) f (zot), זוֹ‎ (he) f (zo)
Hindi: यह (hi) (yah), इस (hi) (is)
Hopi: iˈ
Hungarian: ez (hu) (followed by the article a/az)
Icelandic: þessi (is) m or f, þetta (is) n
Ido: ico (io)
Indonesian: ini (id)
Ingrian: tämä
Interlingua: iste (ia)
Irish: seo
- Old Irish: so
Istriot: quisto m, quista f, sto m, stu m, sta f
Italian: questo (it) m, questa (it) f, sto (it) m, sta (it) f
Japanese: この (ja) (kono)
Javanese: iki (jv)
Kalmyk: эн (en)
Kamkata-viri: ina
Kannada: ಇವನು (kn) m (ivanu), ಇವ (kn) m (iva), ಇವಳು (kn) f (ivaḷu), ಇದು (kn) n (idu)
Kapampangan: ini
Karakhanid: بُو‎ (bū)
Kashubian: ten
Kazakh: бұл (kk) (būl)
Khakas: пу (pu)
Khmer: នេះ (km) (nih)
Kikai: ふり (furi)
Kongo: yayi
Korean: 이 (ko) (i), 이것 (ko) (igeot)
Kunigami: ふりー (furī)
Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئەم ...ە‎ (em ...e)
Kyrgyz: бул (ky) (bul)
Ladin: chest
Lakota: le sg, lena pl
Lao: ນີ້ (nī)
Latgalian: itys m, itei f
Latin: hīc (la), is (la)
Latvian: šis (lv) m, šī (lv) f, šie m pl, šīs (lv), šās f pl
Ligurian: quésto, sto
Lithuanian: šis m, ši f, šitas m, šita f
Lombard: chest (lmo) m, cuest (lmo) m
Low German: disse, düsse ((also) Altmärkisch, Münsterländisch, Paderbornisch), düse ((also) Sauerländisch), düße (Paderbornisch)
- Middle Low German: düsse (16th century)
Luxembourgish: dës
Lü: ᦓᦲᦰ (ni)
Macedonian: овој m (ovoj), оваа f (ovaa), ова n (ova)
Malay:
- Jawi: اين‎, ني‎
- Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)
Malayalam: ഇത് (ml) (itŭ)
Maltese: dan m, din f, dawn pl
Manchu: ᡝᡵᡝ (ere)
Maore Comorian: -nu
Maori: tēnei (mi)
Marathi: हा (mr) (hā)
Miyako: くり (kuri), くい (kui)
Mongolian: энэ (mn) (ene)
- Classical Mongolian: ᠡᠨ᠋ᠡ (ene)
Nahuatl: ye (nah)
Nanai: эй (ej)
Navajo: díí
Neapolitan: chist
Ngazidja Comorian: -nu (classes 2–11, 16–18), oyi, (class 1)
Northern Amami-Oshima: く゚りぃ (xurï)
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: den (no), denne (no), det (no), dette (no)
Okinawan: くり (kuri)
Occitan: aqueste (oc) m, aquesta (oc) f
Oki-No-Erabu: ふり (furi)
Old Church Slavonic: тъ (tŭ)
Old English: þēs (ang)
Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆‎ (b¹u)
Ottoman Turkish: بو‎ (bu)
Persian: این‎ (fa) (in)
Pipil: ini
Pitcairn-Norfolk: dieh
Polish: ten (pl)
Portuguese: este (pt) m, esta (pt) f, isto (pt) n, estes (pt) m pl, estas (pt) f pl
Punjabi: ਏਸ (pa) (ēsa)
Quechua: kay (qu)
Romagnol: stè, sta f
Romanian: acest (ro) m or n, această (ro) f, ăsta (ro) m or n (informal), asta f (informal)
Romansch: quest m, questa f
Russian: э́тот (ru) m (étot), э́та (ru) f (éta), э́то (ru) n (éto), (these) э́ти (ru) pl (éti), сей (ru) m (sej) (dated, poetic)
Rusyn: гевсесь m (hevses'), гевса f (hevsa), гевсе n (hevse)
Scottish Gaelic: seo
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тај
- Latin: taj
Shan: ၼီ့ (nii)
Shor: по (po)
Sicilian: chistu (scn) m, stu (scn) m, chista (scn) f, sta (scn) f
Sinhalese: මේ (si) (mē)
Slovak: tento m, táto f, toto n
Slovene: ta (sl) m or f, to (sl) n, ti (sl) pl
Somali: kan
Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: ten
- Upper Sorbian: tón (hsb)
Southern Altai: бу (bu)
Southern Amami-Oshima: く゚るっ (xur)
Spanish: este (es), esta (es)
Sundanese: iyeu
Swedish: den här (sv), denna (sv)
Tagalog: ito, ire (dialectal), are (tl) (dialectal)
Tajik: ин (tg) (in)
Talysh: (Asalemi) ام‎ (əm)
Tamil: இது (ta) (itu)
Tatar: бу (tt) (bu), шушы (şuşı)
Tausug: ini
Telugu: ఈ (te) (ī), ఇది (te) (idi)
Tetum: ne'e
Thai: นี้ (th) (níi)
Tibetan: འདི ('di)
Tofa: бо (bo)
Toku-No-Shima: く゚りぃ (xurï)
Tregami: i
Turkish: bu (tr), bunlar (tr) pl
Turkmen: bu (tk)
Tuvan: бо (bo)
Ukrainian: цей (uk) (cej), ця (uk) f (cja), це (uk) n (ce), ці pl (ci)
Urdu: یہ‎ (ye)
Uyghur: بۇ‎ (bu)
Uzbek: bu (uz)
Venetian: cuesto m, cuesta f, sto m, sta f
Vietnamese: này (vi)
Volapük: at (vo)
Waigali: iki
Walloon: ci (wa) m or f, cisse (wa) f (from Eastern Walloon), èç (wa) m or f (from Western Walloon), cist (wa) m (before vowel), ciste f (before vowel), èç-n m or f (before vowel; all followed by adverb "ci" or "cial" or "vola" after noun)
Waray-Waray: ini, i-ni
Welsh: hwn m, 'ma, hon f, hyn
West Frisian: dizze (fy) (dit (fy) n)
White Hmong: qhov no
Winnebago: teʼe
Written Oirat: ᡄᠨ᠋ᡄ
Yaeyama: くり (kuri)
Yakut: бу (bu)
Yiddish: דאָזיק‎ (dozik), אָט‎ (ot) (with definite article)
Yonaguni: くー (kū)
Yoron: ふり (furi)
Yoruba: yìí
Zealandic: dezen m, deze f, dit n
ǃXóõ: ʻVV, tVʻV, tVʻVV, tVVʻVV

Arabic: هٰذَا‎ (ar) m (hāḏā), (nonhuman pl) هٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi), (variant of هذه) هٰذِي‎ (hāḏī), (m dual) هٰذَانِ‎ m (hāḏāni), (f dual) هٰتَانِ‎ f (hātāni), (human plural) هٰؤُلَاءِ‎ pl (hāʔulāʔi)
Chechen: и (i), иза (iza)
Chinese:
- Mandarin: 這／这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi)
Czech: tento (cs) m
Finnish: se (fi)
French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f
German: dieser (de)
Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós)
- Ancient: οὗτος m (hoûtos), αὕτη f (haútē), τοῦτο n (toûto)
Ingrian: se
Japanese: これ (ja) (kore) (on its own), この (ja) (kono) (before a noun phrase)
Korean: 그 (ko) (geu)
Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئەم ...ە‎ (em ...e)
Latin: hīc (la)
Macedonian: овој m (ovoj), оваа f (ovaa), ова n (ova)
Malay:
- Jawi: اين‎, ني‎
- Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: den (no), denne (no), det (no), dette (no)
Polish: ten (pl)
Portuguese: este (pt) m, esse (pt) m
Russian: э́тот (ru) m (étot)
Scottish Gaelic: seo
Slovak: tento m
Spanish: este (es) m
Swedish: den (sv), denna (sv)
Turkish: bu (tr)

Arabic: هَٰذَا‎ (ar) m (hāḏā), هَٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi)
Bikol Central: ini (bcl)
Chechen: хӏара (hara)
Finnish: tämä (fi), tällainen (fi)
French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f
German: folgend (de), dieser (de)
Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós), ο εξής m (o exís)
- Ancient: ὅδε m (hóde), ἥδε f (hḗde), τόδε n (tóde)
Korean: 이런 (ko) (ireon)
Macedonian: ваков m (vakov), ваква f (vakva), вакво n (vakvo)
Malay:
- Jawi: اين‎, ني‎
- Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)
Maltese: dan m, din f, dawn pl
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: den (no), denne (no), det (no), dette (no)
Polish: taki (pl)
Portuguese: este (pt) m, esse (pt) m
Russian: тако́й (ru) m (takój)
Slovak: tento m
Swedish: den (sv), denna (sv)
Walloon: ci (wa)

Finnish: eräs (fi)
French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f
German: so ein
Greek: ένας (el) m (énas)
Malay:
- Jawi: اين‎, ني‎
- Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: den (no), denne (no), det (no), dette (no)
Polish: ten (pl)
Portuguese: um (pt) m
Slovak: tento m
Swedish: den (sv), denna (sv)
Walloon: ci (wa)

Arabic: هَٰذَا‎ (ar) m (hāḏā), هَٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi)
Finnish: tämä (fi)
French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f
Hungarian: (before time of day) ma (hu), (before hét (“week”) or hónap (“month”)) e (hu), (before év (“year”)) ez (hu), (otherwise) ezen a/az…, ebben a/az…
Korean: 이번 (ko) (ibeon)
Ngazidja Comorian: -nu
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: denne (no), dette (no), nå (no), nå på (no) (concerning coming day), nå til (no) (concerning coming week, weekend or season)
Slovak: tento m
Uyghur: شۇ‎ (shu), بۇ‎ (bu), مۇشۇ‎ (mushu)

Adverb

this (not comparable)

To the degree or extent indicated.
- I need this much water.
- Do we need this many recommendations?
- We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.

Translations

Dutch: zo (nl)
Finnish: näin (fi)
German: so (de)
Hungarian: ilyen (hu), ennyi (hu)
Ingrian: näin
Slovak: toľko, toľkoto, tak, takto
Spanish: tanto (es) m
Zealandic: zò

Pronoun

this (plural these)

The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
- This isn't the item that I ordered.

Related terms

that, these, those

Translations

Albanian: ky (sq)
Arabic: هٰذَا‎ (ar) m (hāḏā), (nonhuman pl) هٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi), (variant of هذه) هٰذِي‎ (hāḏī), (m dual) هٰذَانِ‎ m (hāḏāni), (f dual) هٰتَانِ‎ f (hātāni), (human plural) هٰؤُلَاءِ‎ pl (hāʔulāʔi)
- Egyptian Arabic: ده‎ m (da), دي‎ f (di), دول‎ pl (dūl)
- Moroccan Arabic: هدا‎ m (hāda), هدي‎ f (hādi), هدو‎ pl (hādu)
- North Levantine Arabic: هيدا‎ m (haydā), هيدي‎ (haydī)
- Tunisian Arabic: هَذَا‎ m (haḏā), هَذِهْ‎ f (haḏi)
Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܐ‎ m (ʾawwā, ʾāwā), ܐܝܐ‎ f (ʾayyā, ʾāyā), ܐܗܐ‎ c (ʾāhā)
- Classical Syriac: ܗܢܐ‎ m (hānā), ܗܕܐ‎ f (hāḏē)
- Jewish Aramaic: הנא‎ m (hānā), הדא‎ f (hāḏē)
Armenian: սա (hy) (sa)
Belarusian: гэ́ты (be) m (héty), гэ́та (be) (héta)
Bengali: (informal) এইটা (bn) (eiṭa), এটা (bn) (eṭa); (formal) এইটি (bn) (eiṭi), এটি (bn) (eṭi)
Bulgarian: ето (bg) (eto), това (tova)
Burmese: ဒါ (my) (da)
Catalan: això (ca) n, aquest (ca) m, aquesta (ca) f, açò (ca)
Cherokee: ᎯᎠ (hia)
Chinese:
- Dungan: җы (žɨ), җыгә (žɨgə)
- Mandarin: 這／这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi), 這個／这个 (zh), (this one (with measure words)) 这个 (zh) (zhège, zhèige), 這些／这些 (zh), (these) 这些 (zh) pl (zhèxiē)
Classical Nahuatl: in
Cornish:
- Kernewek Kemmyn: hemm m, hemma m; homm f, homma f
Cree:
- Plains Cree: awa anim sg, ôki anim pl, ôma inan sg, ôhi inan pl
Czech: toto (cs) n
Danish: dette (da)
Dutch: deze (nl) m or f or pl, dit (nl) n
Esperanto: tio ĉi, ĉi tio
Even: эрэк (ərək)
Evenki: эр (ər)
Finnish: tämä (fi)
French: ceci (fr)
German: dieser (de) m, diese (de) f, dieses (de) n, diese (de) pl
Greek:
- Ancient: οὗτος (hoûtos), αὕτη (haútē), τοῦτο (toûto)
- Katharevousa: ούτος (el) m (oútos), αύτη f (áfti), τούτο (el) n (toúto)
- Demotic Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós), αυτή (el) f (aftí), αυτό (el) n (aftó)
Greenlandic: manna, matuma
Hebrew:
Hindi: यह (hi) (yah), ये (hi) (ye)
Hungarian: ez (hu)
Icelandic: þessi (is), þetta (is), það (is)
Ido: ca (io)
Ingrian: tämä
Interlingua: isto (ia)
Irish: seo
- Old Irish: inso
Istriot: quisto m, quista f
Italian: questo (it) m, questa (it) f
Japanese: これ (ja) (kore)
Kabuverdianu: es
Karakhanid: بُو‎ (bū)
Korean: 이것 (ko) (igeot)
Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئەمە‎ (ckb) (eme)
Lao: ອັນນີ້ (ʼan nī)
Latin: hic (la) m, haec (la) f, hoc (la) n
Latvian: šis (lv) m, šī (lv) f
Macedonian: овој m (ovoj), оваа f (ovaa), ова n (ova)
Malay:
- Jawi: اين‎, ني‎
- Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)
Maltese: dan m, din f
Manchu: ᡝᡵᡝ (ere)
Nanai: эй
Neapolitan: chistu
Norwegian: denne (no) m or f, dette (no) n
Old English: þes (ang) m, þēos f, þis (ang) n
Persian: این‎ (fa) (in)
Pipil: ini
Polish: ten (pl) m, ta (pl) f, to (pl) n
Portuguese: isto (pt), isso (pt) m
Rapa Nui: nei
Romagnol: quest, questa f
Romanian: acest (ro), ăsta (ro) m, această (ro), asta f
Russian: э́то (ru) (éto), э́тот (ru) m (étot), э́та (ru) f (éta), э́то (ru) n (éto), (these) э́ти (ru) pl (éti)
Sardinian: custu
Scottish Gaelic: seo
Serbo-Croatian: ovaj
Sicilian: chistu (scn)
Sindhi: هيءُ‎ m, هِيءَ‎ f
Slovak: toto
Slovene: tá (sl)
Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: to
Spanish: esto (es)
Swedish: den här (sv) c, denna (sv) c, det här (sv) n, detta (sv) n
Tajik: ин (tg) (in)
Telugu: ఇది (te) (idi)
Thai: นี่ (th) (nîi)
Tofa: бо
Turkish:
- Modern Turkish: bu (tr), bunlar (tr) pl
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆‎ (b¹u)
- Ottoman Turkish: بو‎ (bu)
Ukrainian: цей (uk) m (cej), це (uk) (ce)
Uyghur: بۇ‎ (bu)
Venetian: cuesto m, cuesta f
Vietnamese: đây (vi), cái này
Volapük: atos
Welsh: hyn
West Frisian: dit (fy) n, dizze (fy) m or f
Yagnobi: ин (in)
Yakut: бу (bu)
Zealandic: dit, ditte

Noun

this (plural thises)

(philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.

Interjection

this

(Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
- ― I wish trolls could be banned from the forum immediately, without any discussion. ― This!

Synonyms

Anagrams

HITs, Hist, Tish, hist, hist-, hist., hits, iths, shit, sith, tish

this - Middle English

Determiner

this

Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Pronoun

this

Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Adverb

this

Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Determiner

this

Alternative spelling of þis (“these”)

Pronoun

this

Alternative spelling of þis (“these”)

this - Quechua

Pronunciation

IPA: /tʰis/

Interjection

this

the sound a cat makes when preparing to attack something
the sound of damp wood burning

this - Scots

Determiner

this (plural thir)

this
Doric form of thir (“these”)
- This plants is deid.
  - These plants are dead.

Pronoun

this (plural thir)

this
Doric form of thir (“these”)

this - Yola

Determiner

this

this