this

See also: This, thîs, and þis

English

Etymology

From Middle English this, from Old English þis (neuter demonstrative), from North Sea Germanic base *þa- "that", from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, extended form of demonstrative base *to-; + North-West Germanic definitive suffix -s, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).

Cognate with Scots this (“this”), Saterland Frisian dusse (“this”), West Frisian dizze (“this”), German dies, dieses (“this”), Old Gutnish þissi (“this”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thĭs, thəs, IPA^(key): /ðɪs/, /ðəs/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

Determiner

this (plural these)

1. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).

   This classroom is where I learned to read and write.

   1. (colloquial, with stress on this) Referring to oneself.
      • 1999, “Garage Sale”, in That '70s Show, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Michael Kelso (Ashton Kutcher):

        Hey, you know what's got two thumbs and really likes brownies? This guy!

      • 2005, Anita Foster Lovely, Betrayals, Philadelphia, P.A.: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 165:

        I am no longer your little naïve toy. I am a woman. All woman. And this woman is tired of your crap.

      • 2010, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Beat, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, →ISBN, page 333:

        "You'll find another way. This girl is done." Hayden let his gun fall to the ground. "You can shoot me if you want. It's your call."

   • 2017, Samantha Towle, Breaking Hollywood, London: Headline Eternal, →ISBN, page 205:

     Right, boys, as much fun as this night has been, this girl is tired, so I'm gonna hit the hay.

   • 2021 July 1, Stephen Harrison, “Wikipedia's War on the Daily Mail”, in Slate‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-04:

     "As far as I can tell, there's been no journalistic interest in these basic issues of why Wikipedia editors make the decisions they do, and how they give effect to them, despite the fact the announcement of the ban was basically worldwide news," wrote Reddit user ronsmith7. Well, ronsmith7, today is your lucky day because this journalist is interested in those issues.

2. 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.

3. 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: “[…]”

4. (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.

5. (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.

Derived terms

• and all this
• at this juncture
• at this moment in time
• at this point
• at this point in time
• at this rate
• blow this for a game of soldiers
• blow this for a lark
• blow this joint
• blow this Popsicle stand
• blow this popsicle stand
• blow this pop stand
• can do this all day
• don't try this at home
• forget to take one's medication this morning
• forget to take one's pills this morning
• for this once
• from this moment on
• from this time on
• fuck this
• fuck this for a game of soldiers
• fuck this for a lark
• get this
• have seen this film
• have seen this movie
• how do you pronounce this word
• how do you spell this word
• I am afraid of this
• I approve this message
• I'm going to hell for this
• in this connection
• in this day and age
• in this essay I will
• it was this way
• let's get this circus on the road
• let's get this party started
• let this cup pass from me
• make this world go around
• make this world go round
• no horse in this race
• not long for this world
• now hear this
• on this score
• on this side of
• out of this world
• riddle me this
• screw this
• screw this for a game of soldiers
• screw this for a lark
• shuffle off this mortal coil
• sod this for a game of soldiers
• sod this for a lark
• that was then; this is now
• that was then and this is now
• there isn't any easy way to say this
• this afternoon
• this and that
• this and that and the other
• this-a-way
• this close
• this coming
• this evening
• this here
• this instant
• this is it
• this is not a drill
• this is someone
• this is the end
• this is the life
• this is war
• this is where I came in
• this is where we came in
• this is why we can't have nice things
• this just in
• this means war
• this minute
• this morning
• this much
• thisness
• this one
• this second
• this side of the black stump
• this, that, and the other
• this this rice
• this time
• this too shall pass
• this too shall pass away
• this way
• this week
• this-worldliness
• this-worldly
• this year
• this year's
• this you
• too good for this world
• to this day
• to this effect
• to this end
• to whom this may concern
• two can play at this game
• two can play this game
• watch this space
• what is this I don't even
• where does this bus go
• where does this train go
• who's robbing this coach
• who writes this stuff
• with this
• you call this
• you can't make this stuff up
• you got this

 

Related terms

• that
• these
• those

 

Translations

the (thing) here

• Afrikaans: dit (af)
• Albanian: ky (sq) m, kjo (sq) f
• Amharic: ይህ m (yəh)
• 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)

  South Levantine Arabic: هاد m (hād), هادا m (hāda), هادي f (hādi), هاي f (hāy), هدول pl (hadōl)

  Tunisian Arabic: هاذ (hāḏ)

• 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 (bg) n (tová), те́зи (bg) pl (tézi)
• Burmese: ဟောဒီ (my) (hau:di), အနှီ (my) (a.hni)
• Buryat: энэ (ene)
• Carpathian Rusyn: гевсесь m (hevsesʹ), гевса f (hevsa), гевсе n (hevse)
• 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 (ci²) (vernacular or classical)

  Dungan: җы (žɨ)

  Eastern Min: 之 (cĭ), 茲 / 兹 (cī)

  Hakka: 這 / 这 (ché)

  Mandarin: 這 / 这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi), 此 (zh) (cǐ) (literary, classical)

  Wu: 搿

• 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
• Erzya: те (ťe)
• Esperanto: ĉi tiu, tiu ĉi
• Estonian: see (et)
• Extremaduran: esti
• Faroese: hesin (fo) m, henda (fo) f, hetta n
• Finnish: tämä (fi), tää (fi) (colloquial)
• 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)
• Hunsrik: dieser
• 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 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
• Konkani: हें (hẽ)
• Korean: 이 (ko) (i), 이것 (ko) (igeot)
• Kunigami: ふりー (furī)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەم ...ە (em ...e)

  Northern Kurdish: ev (ku) m or f, vê (ku) f, vî (ku) m

• 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 (lv) m pl, šīs (lv), šās f pl
• Ligurian: quésto, sto
• Lithuanian: šis m, ši f, šitas m, šita f
• Lombard: chest (lmo) m, cuest m
• Low German: disse, düsse ((also) Altmärkisch, Münsterländisch, Paderbornisch), düse ((also) Sauerländisch), düße (Paderbornisch)

  Middle Low German: düsse (16th century)

• Lü: ᦓᦲᦰ (ni)
• Luxembourgish: dës
• Macedonian: овој m (ovoj), оваа f (ovaa), ова n (ova)
• Malay:

  Jawi: اين (ms), ني (ms)

  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)
• Moksha: тя (ťa)
• 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 Ōshima: く゚りぃ (xurï)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: den (no), denne (no), det (no), dette (no)

• Occitan: aqueste (oc) m, aquesta (oc) f
• Okinawan: くり (kuri)
• Okinoerabu: 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) m ta (pl) f to (pl) n ci (pl) m pl te (pl) f 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)
• 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 Ōshima: く゚るっ (xur)
• Spanish: este (es) m, esta (es) f, esto (es) n, aqueste (es) m, aquesta (es) f, aquesto (es) n
• 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)
• Tokunoshima: 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 (uk) pl (ci)
• Urdu: یہ (ye)
• Uyghur: بۇ (bu)
• Uzbek: bu (uz)
• Venetan: 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, hon f, hyn, yma
• 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
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• ǃXóõ: ʻVV, tVʻV, tVʻVV, tVVʻVV

known (thing) just mentioned

• 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 (ms), ني (ms)

  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, esta (es) f, esto (es) n, aqueste (es) m, aquesta (es) f, aquesto (es) n
• Swedish: den (sv), denna (sv)
• Turkish: bu (tr)

known (thing) about to be mentioned

• 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 (ms), ني (ms)

  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)

known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience

• Finnish: eräs (fi)
• French: ce (fr) m, cette (fr) f
• German: so ein
• Greek: ένας (el) m (énas)
• Malay:

  Jawi: اين (ms), ني (ms)

  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)

which is current

• 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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} този m (tozi), ^{(please verify)} тази f (tazi), ^{(please verify)} това (bg) n (tova), ^{(please verify)} тези (bg) pl (tezi), ^{(please verify)} тоя (bg) m (toja), ^{(please verify)} тая (bg) f (taja), ^{(please verify)} туй n (tuj), ^{(please verify)} тия pl (tija)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ^{(please verify)} ⴰⴷ (ad)
• Cornish: (Kernewek Kemmyn): ^{(please verify)} an ... ma
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} deze (nl) m, f, pl, ^{(please verify)} dit (nl) n
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tiu ĉi, ^{(please verify)} ĉi tiu
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಈ (ī)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 이 (ko) (i), ^{(please verify)} 이것 (ko) (igeot)
• Lakota: ^{(please verify)} le sg, ^{(please verify)} lena pl
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} hic (la)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} denne (no) m, ^{(please verify)} dette (no) n, ^{(please verify)} disse (no) pl
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} þes (ang) m, ^{(please verify)} þēos f, ^{(please verify)} þis (ang) n
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} ovaj m, ^{(please verify)} ova (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} ovi (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} ove (sh) f pl, ^{(please verify)} taj m, ^{(please verify)} ta (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} ti (sh) pl, ^{(please verify)} te (sh) f pl
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} este (es)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఈ (te) (ī)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} นี้ (th) (nēē)

Adverb

this (not comparable)

1. 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

to the degree or extent indicated

• Catalan: tan (ca)
• Dutch: zo (nl)
• Finnish: näin (fi)
• French: comme ça (fr)
• German: so (de)
• Hungarian: ilyen (hu), ennyi (hu)
• Ingrian: näin
• Italian: così (it)
• Latin: quantum hoc (placed after the adjective in question)
• Portuguese: tão (pt), tanto (pt), tanta (pt), assim (pt)
• Slovak: toľko, toľkoto, tak, takto
• Spanish: tanto (es) m
• Vilamovian: afiyr
• Zealandic: zò

Pronoun

this (plural these)

1. The thing, item, etc. being indicated.

   This isn't the item that I ordered.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars […]

Related terms

• that, these, those

Translations

the thing, item, etc. being indicated

• Albanian: ky (sq)
• Amharic: ይህ m (yəh)
• 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 (bg) (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:

  Demotic Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós), αυτή (el) f (aftí), αυτό (el) n (aftó)

  Ancient: οὗτος (hoûtos), αὕτη (haútē), τοῦτο (toûto)

  Katharevousa: ούτος m (oútos), αύτη f (áfti), τούτο (el) n (toúto)

• Greenlandic: manna, matuma
• Hebrew:
• Hindi: यह (hi) (yah), ये (hi) (ye)
• Hungarian: ez (hu)
• Icelandic: þessi (is), þetta (is), það (is)
• Ido: ca (io)
• Indonesian: ini (id)
• 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)
• Kumyk: бу (bu), шу (şu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەمە (eme)

• Kyrgyz: бул (ky) (bul)
• 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 (ms), ني (ms)

  Rumi: ini (ms), ni (ms)

• Maltese: dan m, din f
• Manchu: ᡝᡵᡝ (ere)
• Nanai: эй (ej)
• 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

• Southern Altai: бу (bu)
• 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)
• Venetan: cuesto m, cuesta f
• Vietnamese: đây (vi), cái này
• Volapük: atos
• Welsh: hwn m, hon f, hyn
• West Frisian: dit (fy) n, dizze (fy) m or f
• Yagnobi: ин (in)
• Yakut: бу (bu)
• Zealandic: dit, ditte

Noun

this (plural thises)

1. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
   • 2001, James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology, page 151:

     Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.

Interjection

this

1. (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

• +1
• IAWTP
• QFT

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

this

1. Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Pronoun

this

1. Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Adverb

this

1. Alternative spelling of þis (“this”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

this

1. Alternative spelling of þis (“these”)

Pronoun

this

1. Alternative spelling of þis (“these”)

Quechua

FWOTD – 28 October 2013

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɪs/

Interjection

this

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

References

• Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2005) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua/Qheswa-español-qheswa simi taqe‎^[2], Cuzco: Regional Government of Cuzco, page 207

Scots

Determiner

this (plural thir)

1. this
2. Doric Scots form of thir (“these”)

   This plants is deid.

   These plants are dead.

Pronoun

this (plural thir)

1. this
2. Doric Scots form of thir (“these”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English this, from Old English þis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðɪs/

Determiner

this

1. this

   Synonym: dhicke

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:

     Fan ich aam in this miseree.

     When I am in this misery.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104