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these

31 1.0

Used alone to name plural people or things near the speaker

pronoun
/ðiz/

: estos

YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANNA TRY ONE OF THESE?
try these
download these
friends like these

So now each of these has two parts.

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Examples

So let's talk about each of these in turn a little bit.

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
So now each of these has two parts.

Stanford
And so I take these guys on home, right?
So I need to give these guys some food.
She's been dealing with these people for four hours.
And now we've got these concepts to work with.
But these clouds, these clouds don't look great.
THESE are the people who can easily ride public transit at off-peak times, improving Metro's bottom line and filling excess capacity at low-ridership times.

Blog text (19)
I'VE HAD THESE FOR 10 YEARS.

Home for the Holidays (1995)
I have three favorite books, and these are the ones I recommend.

Antonyms

those

22 1.0

People and things already mentioned or far away

Idioms

if these walls could talk

Informal

9.1

An idea that a place could tell stories from its past

Surface Forms

these subject case

these object case

these possessive determiner

theirs possessive pronoun

themselves reflexive

Etymology

These is the plural form of this, from an old English word meaning 'near', so when these is used as a pronoun it 'stands for' several people or things that are close to the speaker.