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English
Etymology
From Middle English thos (“those”), alteration of tho pl (“the; those”), equivalent to tho (“the; those”) + -s (plural ending), partly by analogy with thes (“these”), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending. More at tho.
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Determiner
those
- plural 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.
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.
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plural of that
- Azerbaijani: onlar (az)
- Bulgarian: ония (onija), онези (onezi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 嗰啲 (yue) (go2 di1)
- Hakka: 該兜/该兜 (ke-têu)
- Hokkien: 遐的 (zh-min-nan) (hiah-ê, hia-ê), 徊 (hoâi)
- Mandarin: 那些 (zh) (nàxiē)
- Teochew: 許撮/许撮 (he2 coh4), 许撮 (he2 coh4)
- Classical Nahuatl: inihqueh on
- Czech: ty (cs), tamty
- Danish: de (da)
- Dutch: die (nl)
- Finnish: niitä (fi), noita (fi), nuo (fi), he (fi) (of people)
- French: ces (fr) pl
- Georgian: ისინი (isini)
- German: jene (de)
- Hopi: puma
- Hungarian: azok (hu)
- Ido: iti (io) pl, ti (io) pl
- Italian: quelle (it) f, quei m pl, quegli m pl
- Kannada: ಅವರು (kn) m or f (avaru), ಅವುಗಳು n (avugaḷu), ಅವು (kn) n (avu)
- Latin: illī m pl, illae f pl, illa n pl; istī (la) m pl, istae f pl, ista n pl
- Norwegian: de (no)
- Persian: آن (fa) (ân)
- Portuguese: aqueles (pt)
- Romanian: acei m pl, acele f pl, ăia m pl (informal), alea f pl (informal)
- Russian: те (ru) (te)
- Scots: thae
- Spanish: esos (es) m or n, esas (es) f, aquéllos, aquellas (es) f
- Swedish: de (sv), de där (sv), dom (sv) (informal), dom där (informal)
- Thai: เหล่านั้น (làonán)
- Turkish: o (tr), onlar (tr) pl
- Vietnamese: ấy (vi), kia (vi)
- Walloon: ces (wa) m or f (followed by adverb "la" after noun)
- Welsh: hynny, yna
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Pronoun
those
- plural of that
those who serve [those persons who serve]
don't touch those [those objects over there]
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