The in Different Languages
Discover 'The' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
The
Afrikaans die | ||
Albanian të | ||
Amharic የ | ||
Arabic ال | ||
Armenian որ | ||
Assamese the | ||
Aymara jupa | ||
Azerbaijani the | ||
Bambara e | ||
Basque du | ||
Belarusian | ||
Bengali দ্য | ||
Bhojpuri के... | ||
Bosnian the | ||
Bulgarian на | ||
Catalan el | ||
Cebuano ang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 的 | ||
Corsican u | ||
Croatian | ||
Czech the | ||
Danish det | ||
Dhivehi އެ... | ||
Dogri ओह् | ||
Dutch de | ||
English the | ||
Esperanto la | ||
Estonian | ||
Ewe the | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ang | ||
Finnish | ||
French la | ||
Frisian de | ||
Galician o | ||
Georgian | ||
German das | ||
Greek ο | ||
Guarani ha'e | ||
Gujarati આ | ||
Haitian Creole la | ||
Hausa da | ||
Hawaiian ka | ||
Hebrew ה | ||
Hindi | ||
Hmong tus | ||
Hungarian a | ||
Icelandic í | ||
Igbo ihe | ||
Ilocano ti | ||
Indonesian itu | ||
Irish an | ||
Italian il | ||
Japanese インクルード | ||
Javanese ing | ||
Kannada ದಿ | ||
Kazakh the | ||
Khmer នេះ | ||
Kinyarwanda i | ||
Konkani दी | ||
Korean 그만큼 | ||
Krio di | ||
Kurdish ew | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ەکە | ||
Kyrgyz жана | ||
Lao ໄດ້ | ||
Latin quod | ||
Latvian | ||
Lingala ba | ||
Lithuanian | ||
Luganda omu | ||
Luxembourgish den | ||
Macedonian на | ||
Maithili के | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay yang | ||
Malayalam ദി | ||
Maltese il | ||
Maori te | ||
Marathi अगोदर निर्देश केलेल्या बाबीसंबंधी बोलताना | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯗꯤ | ||
Mizo chumi | ||
Mongolian the | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) က | ||
Nepali को | ||
Norwegian de | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) a | ||
Odia (Oriya) the | ||
Oromo -icha | ||
Pashto د | ||
Persian | ||
Polish the | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) a | ||
Punjabi ਇਹ | ||
Quechua chay | ||
Romanian | ||
Russian то | ||
Samoan le | ||
Sanskrit the | ||
Scots Gaelic an | ||
Sepedi the | ||
Serbian тхе | ||
Sesotho the | ||
Shona iyo | ||
Sindhi جي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එම | ||
Slovak the | ||
Slovenian | ||
Somali ah | ||
Spanish la | ||
Sundanese éta | ||
Swahili the | ||
Swedish de | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ang | ||
Tajik ба | ||
Tamil தி | ||
Tatar .әр сүзнең | ||
Telugu ది | ||
Thai ที่ | ||
Tigrinya እቲ | ||
Tsonga ku | ||
Turkish | ||
Turkmen the | ||
Twi (Akan) no | ||
Ukrainian | ||
Urdu | ||
Uyghur the | ||
Uzbek the | ||
Vietnamese các | ||
Welsh y | ||
Xhosa i | ||
Yiddish די | ||
Yoruba awọn | ||
Zulu i |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Die" may also be a contraction of the Dutch word "deze," meaning "this". |
| Albanian | In Gheg Albanian, "të" can also mean "of". |
| Amharic | 'የ' has a possessive suffix meaning 'of' that was in turn derived from a word that referred to 'place' |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "ال" ("the") can also be used as a definite article to indicate a specific noun or as a prefix to form a superlative. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "որ" is thought to derive from an Indo-European root meaning "a certain, particular." |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "the" ("the") can also refer to a specific or definite object, and is typically used before nouns that have already been mentioned in the discourse. |
| Basque | Basque "du" can also mean "to" or "of". |
| Belarusian | " (the) in Belarusian can also mean "this" or "that" in certain contexts, particularly at the beginning of a sentence. |
| Bengali | "দ্য" can also be the shortened form of "দশ্য" |
| Bosnian | As an alternative to the use of "the," Bosnian often uses a possessive pronoun with a generic noun to indicate that the noun is definite. |
| Bulgarian | The word "на" can also mean "on" or "in" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "el" derives from the Latin demonstrative pronoun "ille" ("that") and can also be used as an article with the meaning "a certain". |
| Cebuano | The word "ang" can also be used as a possessive pronoun, meaning "one's" or "his/her". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "的" is an auxiliary word that marks a noun as a noun phrase. It is often translated as "the" in English, but it does not always mean "the" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "的" can also mean "belonging to" or "possessive". |
| Corsican | Alternate use: 'u' can combine with prepositions to form articles similar to those used in French and Spanish, ex. 'a u' (to the). |
| Croatian | The word "ti" can also mean "you" in an informal sense. |
| Czech | Slovo "the" se v češtině používá jako určitý člen, který se umísťuje před podstatné jméno, aby vyjádřil, že se jedná o konkrétní osobu, věc nebo pojem. |
| Danish | The word "det" can also mean "it" or "that" in Danish. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "de" can also refer to the definite pronoun "that" or the demonstrative pronoun "this". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word “see” (meaning 'the') derives from Proto-Finnic “tä”, which also meant “this”. |
| Finnish | In colloquial Finnish, there are multiple ways to emphasize "the", such as "se" or adding extra vowels: "tee". |
| French | "La" in French can also mean "she" or "it" and comes from the Latin word "illa". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "de" can also mean "this". |
| Galician | The Galician word "o" can also mean "or". |
| Georgian | In Georgian, the word "the" is not a separate word but a suffix added to nouns, and it can also have the meaning of "this" or "that". |
| German | Das is used both as a definite article and as a demonstrative pronoun in German, similar to the English "the" and "that". |
| Greek | The Greek word “ο” has an origin in the word “ός”, which means "he". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'આ' ('the') also has alternate uses, such as indicating respect or an honorific title. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'la' in Haitian Creole can also mean 'that' or 'there'. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "da" can also mean "of the" or "belonging to". |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "ka" can also refer to a male or masculine entity |
| Hebrew | ה (the) can also mean "this" or "that" when used with a gesture or in certain phrases. |
| Hindi | "The" in Hindi can also refer to "your," "their," or "his," depending on context. |
| Hmong | Tus also means "it" or "of it", and is used to refer to the subject of a sentence. |
| Hungarian | The definite article "a" was in former Hungarian an article which pointed out a distant object. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "í" also means "in" and can be used in place of "innan" or "í innan". |
| Igbo | The word "ihe" in Igbo also means "thing" or "object". |
| Indonesian | Itu, as "the" in Indonesian, originated from the archaic demonstrative pronoun "it". |
| Irish | The Irish word "an" can also mean "a" or "one" in certain contexts. |
| Italian | The Italian word "il" originated from the Latin "ille", meaning "that" or "he", and was initially used to indicate a specific element within a known context. |
| Japanese | 「インクルード」は、フランス語の「inclure（含む）」から派生した外来語です。 |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "ing" can also be used to indicate possession, a passive voice marker, or a prefix for adjectives. |
| Kannada | The archaic and poetic usage of 'ದಿ' in Kannada can refer to 'heaven' or 'the sky'. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "the" can also refer to a previously mentioned object or person, similar to anaphoric reference in other languages. |
| Khmer | While ‘ឝិឝនុង’ is normally seen as the equivalent of ‘the’ in English, it can also be used as a demonstrative pronoun, similar to ‘this’ or ‘that’ in English. |
| Korean | "그만큼" means "so many" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word 'ew' also means 'this' or 'that' in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "жана" ("the") is also used to mean "new" or "another". |
| Lao | The word ໄດ້ can also be used as a present tense particle, indicating that an action or event is currently happening. |
| Latin | The word "quod" can also refer to a jail or prison. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the definite article "the" is "noteiktā forma" in full, which translates literally as "definite form". |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "the" originates from the demonstrative pronoun "tas" and can also mean "this" or "that". |
| Luxembourgish | The 'den' in Luxembourgish is derived from the French 'le' or the German 'den', and can also be used to refer to a lion's den or a room in a house. |
| Macedonian | The word "на" also serves as a particle of negation and as a particle denoting existence. |
| Malagasy | "Ny" is also used as a pronoun, referring to an unspecified third party. |
| Malay | In Indonesian, "yang" can also mean "which" or "who". |
| Malayalam | ദി can also mean 'day' in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | Maltese "il" derives from Arabic "al" but is used both as "the" and as a plural marker. |
| Maori | The word 'te' in Maori can also mean 'the one' or 'a particular one'. |
| Marathi | "The" is a definite article in English and is used before nouns to specify a particular person or thing. |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The particle က also conveys concepts of specificity, emphasis, and prominence. |
| Nepali | In Sanskrit, "को" also means "who" and is often used in interrogative sentences. |
| Norwegian | The word "de" in Norwegian can also mean "they" or "them". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "A" can also mean "of" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, “د” also means “of, from, at, on, for, or by” depending on the context. |
| Persian | In Persian, "the" has alternate forms such as "-e" or "-ra" that are used after certain words ending in vowels or consonants, respectively. |
| Polish | The word "the" in Polish originates from the Proto-Indo-European "*to-", meaning "this" or "that", and has been continuously used in the language since the 12th century. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese "a", besides meaning "the," can also be used in front of nouns to indicate a non-specific quantity, similar to "some" in English. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਇਹ" also means "this" or "it" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | This Romanian word has multiple meanings, including articles, pronouns, and prepositions. |
| Russian | The word "то" can also stand for "that" and is frequently used as a connective particle. |
| Samoan | The definite article “le” can appear either before nouns, as a noun determiner, or before adjectives to form a noun modifier, and it is always used with common nouns but never with proper nouns. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "an" can also mean "one" or "a certain". |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "тхе" can also mean "tea". |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, 'the' can also mean 'to' or 'from' depending on context. |
| Shona | Iyo can also be used in a possessive sense, as in "the book of John" (bhuku raJohani). |
| Sindhi | The word "جي" also means "respect" in Sindhi and is used as a suffix after someone's name to show respect. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word එම (ema) is derived from the Sanskrit word एष (eṣa), meaning "this" or "that." |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "the" can also refer to a specific object or person that has been previously mentioned or is well-known. |
| Slovenian | The word "the" in Slovenian can also be used as a possessive pronoun, meaning "his" or "hers". |
| Somali | The word "ah" in Somali, apart from meaning "the," can serve as the subject marker for third-person singular nouns in verbal sentences. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "la" can refer not only to a singular feminine noun but also to a direct object pronoun or a feminine definite article. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "éta" originally meant "that" but has since acquired the meaning of "the". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "the" can also be used as a possessive pronoun, meaning "his" or "her". |
| Swedish | Swedish "de" derives from an Old Norse definite article that applies to both masculine and feminine nouns. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Ang word "ang" also comes from the Sanskrit term "anga" which could mean "body part" or "limb" when translated in English. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word "ба" can also refer to "this", "that", or a place. |
| Tamil | The word 'தி' in Tamil also has the meaning of 'an', 'this', or 'that' depending on the context. |
| Telugu | The word "ది" can also mean "this" or "that" in Telugu. |
| Thai | In Thai grammar, "ที่" can also be used as a relative pronoun or an ordinal number. |
| Turkish | The word "the" in Turkish can also mean "this" or "that" when used with demonstrative pronouns. |
| Ukrainian | The word "" can also mean "that" when used before a noun. |
| Urdu | The 'the' at the start of many Urdu words is often a remnant of the Persian definite article, but it may also be a marker of indefiniteness |
| Uzbek | The word "the" in Uzbek can also mean "this" or "that" depending on the context. |
| Vietnamese | The word "các" in Vietnamese can also mean "various", "several", or "all kinds of". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word “y”, meaning “the”, has alternative forms, such as “yr”, when it precedes a vowel, and “'r”, when it follows the letter “a”. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the prefix "i" can denote a singular noun, a possessive pronoun, or a locative prefix, depending on the context. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "די" can also be a possessive form, indicating ownership of a noun. |
| Yoruba | Awọn can also mean "those who" or "the people who" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the word 'i' can mean 'the' in English, but it can also mean 'he/she/it' in other contexts. |
| English | The word "the" derives from Old English "þe", which could also mean "that" or "this". |