these

See also: These and thèse

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Etymology

Middle English thes, from Old English þas, from Proto-Germanic.

Pronunciation

enPR: thēz,
(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ðiːz/
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Audio (US)
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(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -iːz

Determiner

these

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of this
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  These pretzels are making me thirsty.

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

Translations

plural of this

Arabic: (nonhuman pl) هٰذِهِ‎ f (hāḏihi), (human plural) هٰؤُلَاءِ‎ pl (hāʾulāʾi)
Armenian: այս (hy) (ays)
Beja: een m, taan f
Belarusian: гэтыя pl (hétyja)
Bulgarian: тия (tíja), тези (bg) (tézi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 這些, (these) 这些 (zh) pl (zhèxiē)
Classical Nahuatl: inihqueh in
Czech: tito (cs), tyto (cs), tato (cs)
Dutch: die (nl) m or f, deze (nl) m or f
Esperanto: ĉi tioj, tioj ĉi
Estonian: need (et) pl
Finnish: nämä (fi)
French: ces (fr) m or f, ces …-ci pl
German: diese (de)
Greenlandic: makku
Hopi: ima
Hungarian: ezek (hu), ezeket (hu)
Icelandic: þessir (is) m, þessar (is) f, þessi (is) n
Ido: ici (io) pl, ci (io) pl
Interlingua: iste
Italian: questi (it)
Japanese: この (ja) (kono) (same as singular), (for plural) これらの (korera-no)

Macedonian: овие pl (óvie)
Maltese: dawn
Norwegian: disse (no)
Polish: te (pl) pl or f, ci (pl) pl m (see: ten for all forms)
Portuguese: estes (1st person, close to the speaker); esses (2nd person, close to the listener)
Romanian: acești, ăștia (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
Talysh:
Asalemi: ام‎ (əm)
Ukrainian: ці pl (ci)
Walloon: ces (wa) m or f (followed by adverb "ci" or "cial" or "vola" after noun)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Aramaic:
Syriac: ܗܠܝܢ (hāleyn, holeyn) c

Hebrew: הלין (hāleyn, holeyn) c
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} deze
German: ^{(please verify)} diese
Italian: ^{(please verify)} questi
Japanese: これら (korera)
Korean: 이것들 (igeotdeul), 이걸 (igeol)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ئه‌مانه‌‎ (emane)
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Swedish: ^{(please verify)} dessa (sv), ^{(please verify)} de här (sv)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} bunlar

Pronoun

these

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of this

Translations

plural of this

Armenian: սրանք (srankʿ)
Old Armenian: սոքա (sokʿa)
Bulgarian: тия (tíja), тези (bg) (tézi)
Czech: tito (cs)
Finnish: nämä (fi)
French: ceux-ci (fr), celles-ci (fr)
Greenlandic: makku
Hungarian: ezek (hu), ezeket (hu)
Ido: ici (io) pl, ci (io) pl
Japanese: これら (ja) (korera)

Kannada: ಇವರು m or f (ivaru), ಇವುಗಳು n (ivugaḷu), ಇವು (kn) (ivu)
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Persian: این‌ها‎, اینها‎ (fa) (inhâ)
Polish: te (pl) pl or f, ci (pl) pl m (see: ten for all forms)
Portuguese: esses (pt), estes (pt) m pl
Quechua: kaykuna
Russian: э́ти (ru) (éti)
Scots: thir anes
Scottish Gaelic: iad seo
Slovak: títo
Spanish: éstos (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: هذه‎(haadhíihi)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܗܠܝܢ (hāleyn, holeyn) c

Hebrew: הלין (hāleyn, holeyn) c
Mandarin: 這些, 这些 (zhèxiē)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} deze
German: ^{(please verify)} diese
Italian: ^{(please verify)} questi
Korean: 이것들 (igeotdeul), 이걸 (igeol)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ئه‌مانه‌‎ (emane)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} dessa (sv), ^{(please verify)} de här (sv)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} bunlar

Statistics

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Anagrams

Latin

Noun

these

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) ablative singular of thesis

Old Dutch

Determiner

these m

this, these

Declension

Declension of these

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

Old Saxon

Determiner

these m

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

Declension

Declension of these

	Singular			Plural
	Masculine	Neuter	Feminine	Plural
nominative	these	thit	thius	thesa
accusative	thesan	thit	thesa	thesa
genitive	theses	theses	thesaro	thesaro
dative	thesemu	thesemu	thesaru	thesum
instrumental	thîs

Descendants

Low German: düsse, disse

Portuguese

Noun

these f (plural theses)

Obsolete spelling of tese (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).