the

Significado

1. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
2. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
3. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
4. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
5. (colloquial) Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
6. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
7. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
8. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
9. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
10. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
11. Used with an adjective
12. Used with an adjective
13. Used with an adjective

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈðiː/

Etimología

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (“the, that”, demonstrative pronoun), a late variant of sē, the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem. replaced words, cognates Originally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms (sē m, sēo f, þæt n, þā pl); sē is from Proto-West Germanic *siz, from Proto-Germanic *sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só. Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“the”), West Frisian de (“the”), Dutch de (“the”), German Low German de (“the”), German der (“the”), Danish de (“the”), Swedish de (“the”), Icelandic sá (“that”) within Germanic and with Sanskrit sá (“the, that”), Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), Tocharian B se (“this”) among other Indo-European languages.