those
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English thos, alteration of tho ("the; those"), equivalent to tho + -s, partly by analogy with thes ("these"), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending.
Pronunciation Determiner- plural form of that
- Those bolts go with these parts.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
- French: ces
- German: jene
- Italian: quelle, quei, quegli
- Portuguese: aqueles
- Russian: те
- Spanish: esos, esas, aquéllos, aquellas
- plural form of that
- those who serve [those persons who serve]
- don't touch those [those objects over there]
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