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The initial voiced dental fricative <span style="color:darkgreen;font-weight:bold;">ð</span>, common to both, is a deictic.  
 
The initial voiced dental fricative <span style="color:darkgreen;font-weight:bold;">ð</span>, common to both, is a deictic.  
  
**<span style="font-weight:bold;">these</span>, or (in some dialects) <span style="font-weight:bold;">these ones</span>, are near the speaker
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**<span style="font-weight:bold;">these</span>, or (in some dialects) <span style="font-variant:strikethrough;">these ones</span>, are near the speaker
 
**<span style="color:#AAAAAA;">those</span>, or (in some dialects) <span style="color:#AAAAAA;">those ones</span>, are farther away.
 
**<span style="color:#AAAAAA;">those</span>, or (in some dialects) <span style="color:#AAAAAA;">those ones</span>, are farther away.
  

Revision as of 14:41, 27 September 2019


demonstrative adjective (determiner), pronoun, (singular)

  • this, or this one, is near the speaker
  • that, or that one, is farther away.

The initial voiced dental fricative ð, common to both, is a deictic.

    • these, or (in some dialects) these ones, are near the speaker
    • those, or (in some dialects) those ones, are farther away.

See also

this.Javascript