One

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See also: [a], [an], [any], [only]

Cardinal number

Pronoun

In English, adjectives cannot be made into nouns simply by adding an article as they can be in Romance languages.

They have two cats: the red one is 12 years old, the other one is only 6.
Ils ont deux chats: le rouge, qui a 12 ans, et l'autre qui n'a que 6.

Demonstrative Pronoun

-ci -là
celle
celui
this one that one
celles
ceux
these (ones) those (ones)

One distinctive trait of some British dialects (including the standard one) is that "ones" is used with the plural demonstrative determiners these and those. This is not the case for American English, for example, which only requires the pronoun if an adjective is used (e.g. these blue ones, those broken ones)

Determiner

  • One person said there would be no break this morning.