That

Etymology
þæt (neuter relative pronoun, definite article).

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/D{t/}}

Conjunction

 * He told me that the book is a good read.
 * 1)  Introducing a hypothetical fact or supposition: ‘given that’, ‘as would appear from the fact that’.
 * 2) *1623, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors:
 * What, are you mad, that you doe reason so?
 * 1) With antecedent so: or such:: introducing the result of the main clause.
 * 2) *2008, Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 23 May 2008:
 * My dad apparently always said that no child of his would ever be harassed for its poor eating habits, and then I arrived, and I was so disgusting that he revised his opinion.
 * 1)  Without any antecedent: so that.
 * 2) *1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, III.1:
 * The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
 * The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: (’inn)
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: што
 * Catalan: que
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (not used)
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,


 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: qui, ,
 * Persian: که
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gun
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: що
 * Volapük: das


 * Arabic: لكي,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gus


 * :, (and )
 * : ke
 * : bahwa
 * : que
 * : ke
 * : bahwa
 * : que
 * : ke
 * : bahwa
 * : que
 * : ke
 * : bahwa
 * : que


 * : ke
 * : (ke)
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: da
 * : అది
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: da
 * : అది
 * Roman: da
 * : అది
 * : అది
 * : అది
 * : అది
 * : అది
 * : అది

Determiner
(plural those)


 * 1) The (thing) being indicated (at a distance from the speaker, or previously mentioned, or at another time).
 * That book is a good read.
 * That battle was in 1450.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,   ;   /    (nonhuman pl);   m dual,   f dual;   (human pl)
 * Egyptian: dukha,  dikha ,  dukhum
 * Tunisian Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: той
 * Bengali: ওই, সেই
 * Bosnian:
 * taj, ti , ta f sg and n pl, te , to
 * takav m sg, takvi, takva f sg and n pl, takve  , takvo n sg
 * Bulgarian:
 * онзи / онази / онова / онези (onzi/onazi/onova/onezi) m/f/n/pl;
 * оня / оная / онуй / ония (onja/onaja/onuj/onija) m/f/n/pl
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: (formal and written),  (vernacular)
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: an ... na
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch: dat, die //
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: hasin, handa/handan, hatta
 * Finnish:
 * (the thing pointed at) ;
 * (the thing not pointed at) ;
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , , , , , ,
 * Greek: εκείνος, εκείνη , εκείνο , εκοίνοι , εκείνες , εκείνα
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: ("hahu", m/distant),  ("hahi", f/distant)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: ille
 * Irish: an...sin
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: その (sonó), あの (anó)


 * Kannada: ಆ (aa)
 * Korean: 그 (gu), 저 (jeo)
 * Latin: iste (close to listener), ille (away from listener), is, hic
 * Limburgish: det dae  die f/pl
 * Lingua Franca Nova: acel
 * Maltese:, ,
 * Manchu: (tere)
 * Novial: ti
 * Old Church Slavonic: онъ (onŭ)
 * Old English:, ,
 * Old Irish: ,
 * Persian: (ān)
 * Polish: tamten / tamta / tamto m/f/n
 * Portuguese: esse, essa , esses , essas f/pl (near); aquele , aquela , aqueles , aquelas f/pl (far)
 * Romanian: acela, ăla, cela ; aceea, aia, ceea
 * Romansch: ,
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sin, siud
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * тај, ти , та f sg and n pl, те , то
 * такво m sg, такви, таква f sg and n pl, такве  , такво n sg
 * Roman:
 * taj, ti , ta f sg and n pl, te , to n sg
 * takav, takvi , takva f sg and n pl, takve , takvo n sg
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Sindhi: ,
 * Slovak: ten / tá / to m/f/n, tamten / tamtá / tamto m/f/n distant (lit., that there)
 * Slovene: tisto, tista , tisti
 * Spanish: ese, esa , esos , esas , eso  (near); aquel , aquella , aquellos , aquellas , aquello , (far)
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog: iyan, iyon
 * Telugu: ఆ (aa)
 * Thai: นั่น
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: đó, cái đó, kia, cái kia
 * Welsh: hwnnw,

Derived terms

 * thatness

Pronoun

 * 1)  That thing.
 * That was an interesting example.

Antonyms

 * here, there, this, yon, yonder

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali: ওইটা, ওটা, সেইটা, সেটা;  ওইটি, ওটি, সেইটি, সেটি
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: това (tova)
 * Burmese:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: henna, honna
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: hasin, handa/handan, hatta
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , ,  ,  ,
 * Greek:, , , , ,
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: illo, illos
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * (near) それ (soré)
 * (far) あれ (aré)
 * (far) あれ (aré)


 * Korean: 그것 (gugeot), 저것 (jeogeot)
 * Lao: (nan) near,  (phun) far
 * Latin:, ista, istud, is, ea, id, ille, illa, illud, hic, haec, hoc
 * Lingua Franca Nova: acel
 * Lojban:
 * Maltese:, ,
 * Navajo:
 * Novial: te or  or, tu , to , ta  plurals add -s
 * Old English:, ,
 * Persian: آن
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * esse, essa , esses , essas
 * aquele, aquela , aqueles , aquelas
 * Romanian:, acea, (informal),  (informal)
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: то, оно
 * Roman: to, ono
 * Sindhi: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * ése, ésa , ésos , ésas
 * aquél, aquélla , aquéllos , aquéllas
 * Swedish:, , , , ,
 * Telugu: అది (adi)
 * Thai: นั่น
 * Tunisian Arabic: ,

Pronoun

 * 1)  Which, who.
 * Who was the actor that played Hamlet?
 * I like the song that you wrote.

Translations

 * Armenian: որը (vorə)
 * Bosnian: koji m sg, koju f sg, koja n pl, koje m pl, f pl, and n sg
 * Bulgarian: който / която / което (kojto/kojato/koeto) m/f/n, когато (kogato)
 * Chinese: 那 (nà), 那个 (nàgè)
 * Cornish:
 * Kernewek Kemmyn: a
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, m, f, pl
 * Egyptian Arabic: (ʔilli)
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: (nominative),  (accusative)
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: που (pou)
 * Hebrew: ...ש (še...)
 * Hungarian: ami, amelyik (the later means: 'which' )
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: que


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (not used)
 * Latin:
 * Novial: kel
 * Old English:
 * Persian: (ke)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pe care
 * Russian: который / которая / которое / которые (kotóryj/kotóraja/kotóroje/kotóryje) m/f/n/pl, что (što)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: који m sg, коју f sg, која n pl, које m pl, f pl, and n sg
 * Roman: koji m sg, koju f sg, koja n pl, koje m pl, f pl, and n sg
 * Sindhi: ,
 * Slovak: ktorý / ktorá / ktoré m/f/n, čo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tunisian Arabic:

Adverb

 * 1)  To a given extent or degree; particularly.
 * I'm just not that sick.
 * 1)  So, so much; very.
 * Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
 * I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
 * 1)  indeed.
 * The water is so cold!
 * That it is.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Portuguese: tão, assim


 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Portuguese: tão, tanto, tanto


 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:



Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) that, that one

Determiner

 * 1) that

Descendants

 * Middle Dutch:
 * Dutch:

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) that, that one

Determiner

 * 1) that

Descendants

 * Low Saxon:

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