this

Significado (English)

1. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
2. (colloquial) The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
3. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
4. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
5. (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 ...".
6. Designates the current or next instance.

este

esto

ésto

esotro

this is it

today’s

previously mentioned

That’s it

that thing

that and the other

animate demonstrative

to be

inanimate demonstrative

actual

aforementioned

basis

demonstrative pronoun

for this

if so

such a thing

this is

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ðɪs/

Inherited from inglés medio

Inherited from inglés antiguo

Cognate with escocés

Cognate with Saterfriesisch

Cognate with frisón occidental

Cognate with alemán

In summary

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”).

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