the

omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the

[1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

specifically/but [he/she] placed the article tho or the before every word


the

Vi vågnede ved 6tiden og lavede dejlig the.

2016, Thorkild Hansen, Genklang: Rejser og portrætter 1959-89, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

We got up at about 6 AM and made lovely tea.

Hun smiler over hele femøren, da duften af te breder sig: ”Uha, dejlig the.”

2015, Lotte Heise, Tina Bryld, Selvfølgelig skal hun bo hos mig: om at bo med sin handicappede mor, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

She smiles broadly, as the scent of tea spreads: ”Oh, lovely tea.”

the (indefinite nominative singular)
theen (definite nominative singular)
thes (genitive indefinite singular)
theens (definite genitive singular)


the

I’m reading the book Mary reviewed. (Compare I’m reading a book Mary reviewed.)

You live on Main Street, don't you? You know, you should tell the mayor the street needs cleaning.

The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.

the street that runs all the way through my hometown

I sleep in the bedroom!

2016, VOA Learning English, archived from the original on 2017-09-30:

Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun

The definite grammatical article that shows that the noun phrase that immediately follows it is definitely identifiable...

...because it has already been mentioned, is to be completely specified in the same sentence, or very shortly thereafter.

No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.

God save the Queen!

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:8, column 2:

...because it is presumed to be definitely known in context or from shared knowledge.

Used before a noun designating something considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.

No one in the whole country had seen it before.

I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.

Take me to the airport/station/hospital/office/park/match/meeting.

Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.

A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)

(informal) How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")

Used before a body part, a family member, a pet (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.

possessive pronoun
possessive pronoun#English

How's the Sal today?
"How are you, Sal?"

(colloquial) Precedes a familiar nickname or other term of address.

square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater

Used in many idiomatic expressions and proverbs to refer to common objects, roles, or situations connected with something definite, in the manner of an analogy

That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.

"Good Heavens, man! Why, he is the authority. If you want pure laboratory experiments those are the books."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

“New Kid On The Block” doubles as a terrific showcase for the Sea Captain who, in the grand tradition of Simpsons supporting characters, quickly goes from being a stereotype to an archetype, from being a crusty sea-captain character to the crusty sea-captain character.

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

When stressed, indicates that it describes something which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.

That was the juiciest apple pie ever.

May the better man win.

Used before a noun phrase beginning with superlative or comparative adjective or an ordinal number, indicating that the noun refers to a single item.

Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 536:

The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.

Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.

The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.

Used with the plural of a surname to indicate the entire family.

That apple pie was the best.

Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces; the white are assigned to the player who moves first.

Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.

the Irish are...; the Chinese are...; the French are...

Used before a demonym ending in -ish, -ese or -ch (when pronounced /tʃ/) to refer to people of a given country collectively.

Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme

da (alternative)
d' (alternative)
teh (alternative)
de (alternative)
t' (alternative)
th' (alternative)
ye (alternative)
yᵉ (alternative)
yͤ (alternative)
ẏe (alternative)
ẏᵉ (alternative)

(-u, -w) (masculine) (-wa, -itwa, -ätwa) (feminine) (final enclitic suffixes)

الـ

written together with the following words, "l" assimilates with sun letters

(attached suffixes are used, -ът, -та, -то, etc.)

ets

before a word beginning with a vowel sound

-en c or -et n (singular, no adjective or genitive)

den c or det n (singular, before adjective or genitive)

-ene or -ne pl (plural, no adjective or genitive)

de pl (plural, before adjective or genitive)

Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian

ה־

written together with the following word

not used in Kazakh (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)

itu

if replaceable by that, rarely necessary

ini

if replaceable by this, rarely necessary

din

focus marker, past referential common noun

san

focus marker, recent referential common noun

isdin

non-focus marker, past referential common noun

issan

non-focus marker, recent referential common noun

is

non-focus marker, unspecific common noun

not used in Tamil (demonstratives serve a similar purpose)

not used in Tatar (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)

not used in Turkish (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)

(♂♀, animate or inanimate, usually used with non-Volapük words) el

de

used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts

die

stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention

die

with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”

die

used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (“the, that”, demonstrative pronoun), a late variant of sē, the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem.
replaced words, cognates
Originally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms (sē m, sēo f, þæt n, þā pl); sē is from Proto-West Germanic *siz, from Proto-Germanic *sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“the”), West Frisian de (“the”), Dutch de (“the”), German Low German de (“the”), German der (“the”), Danish de (“the”), Swedish de (“the”), Icelandic sá (“that”) within Germanic and with Sanskrit स (sá, “the, that”), Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), Tocharian B se (“this”) among other Indo-European languages.


the

The hotter(,) the better. (comma usually omitted in such very short expressions)

The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.

The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.

It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.

It was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.

I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.

We went the furthest under her leadership.

They trusted him the most.

(with a superlative adjective) Beyond all others.

kúllama kāna ʾárḵaṣ kāna ʾáfḍal ‘the cheaper the better’

كُلَّمَا كَانَ... كَانَ ... (example: كلما كان أرخص كان أفضل *

越……越……

example: 越热越好 yuè rè yuè hǎo "the hotter the better"

(conditional -reba + dictionary form + hodo + adjective 2) adj.1 + れば + adj.1 程 + adj.2 (...reba...hodo) (example: 暑ければ暑い程良い atsukereba atsui hodo ii "the hotter the better")

quanto + comp. , comp. (ex: quanto mais quente, melhor "the hotter the better")

чем + comp., тем + comp. (čem + comp., tem + comp.)

indicating a result like the comparative

No word accompanies the comparative in this usage.

From Middle English the, thy, thi, from Old English þē̆, probably a neuter instrumental form ("by that, thereby")—alongside the more common þȳ and þon—of the demonstrative pronoun sē ("that"). Compare Dutch des te ("the, the more"), German desto ("the, all the more"), Norwegian fordi and Norwegian av di ("because"), Icelandic því (“the; because”), Faroese tí, Swedish ty.


the

valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest

Next morning I was up at an early hour, to see the market held near the water gate. The beef was excellent: but at the high prices of ten-pence and one shilling the pound; mutton at the same price; fowls a dollar the couple, and showing “more feathers than flesh.”

1837, James Edward Alexander, Narrative of a Voyage of Observation Among the Colonies of Western Africa, in the Flag-ship Thalia; and of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, in 1835, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, pages 251–2:


the

Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvj:[24], folio cxcv, recto:


the

14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 1-2.
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


the

them uuīha uuīsa lēstean: To obey that holy wise.

thē (canonical)
the (masculine nominative singular)
that (neuter nominative singular)
thiu (feminine nominative singular)
thia (nominative plural)
thana (accusative masculine singular)
that (accusative neuter singular)
thia (accusative feminine singular)
thia (accusative plural)
thes (genitive masculine singular)
thes (genitive neuter singular)
thera (feminine genitive singular)
thero (genitive plural)
themu (dative masculine singular)
themu (dative neuter singular)
theru (dative feminine singular)
them (dative plural)
thiu (instrumental masculine neuter singular)

Middle Low German: de

Low German: de

From Proto-Germanic *sa. The original s- was replaced by th- by analogy with the other forms, but still preserved in the variant sē.


the

From Proto-Germanic *þa, from Proto-Indo-European *tó, *te-.


the

neki kreten the ih drka emotivno

the ovo okačim na fb wall, garant ne bih opstala od borKINJa za ženska prava

if I posted this on my FB wall, I surely wouldn't survive the women rights fighters

(Internet slang) Alternative spelling of da

Borrowed from English the, which sounds similar to Serbo-Croatian da.


the

-dhe- (stem)
sedheé (first-person singular)
naxedheé (first-person plural)
nedheé (second-person singular)
naxedheé (plural second-person)
gidheé (plural third-person)
medheé (singular third-person)
godheé (plural third-person)
yedheé (fourth-person singular)
godheé (fourth-person plural)
ɂededheé (reflexive singular)
kededheé (plural reflexive)
dedheé (reflexive)
ɂełedheé (plural reciprocal)
ɂedheé (indefinite)
godheé (locative)


the

the (indefinite nominative singular)
thes (genitive indefinite singular)
theet (definite nominative singular)
theets (definite genitive singular)
theer (indefinite nominative plural)
theers (genitive indefinite plural)
theerna (definite nominative plural)
theernas (definite genitive plural)


the

a kind of silk gauze, often used to make ao dai

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 紗 (SV: sa).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">sa</i>


the

having a strong and fragrant smell or flavor, usually overlaps with what described as "minty" or "citrusy" in English


the

Th' ball want a cowlee, the gazb maate all rize;

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:

The ball o'er shot the goal, the dust rose all about;