# the
## English
### Pronunciation

* (when stressed)
** enPR: thē, IPA: /ˈðiː/
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** Rhymes: -iː
*** (variant, preconsonantal) enPR: thŭ, IPA: /ˈðʌ/
* (when unstressed and prevocalic)
** enPR: thē, IPA: /ði/, /ðɪ/
* (when unstressed and preconsonantal)
** enPR: thə, IPA: /ðə/ (but see notes below)
** Audio (Canada):(file)
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** Audio (UK):(file)
(MLE) IPA: /dɑ/, /dɑʔ/ (before a vowel)
The word the is commonly pronounced /ðiː/ whenever it is pronounced as a distinct word, e.g.:
* When it is used for emphasis (This is where the hospital for open-heart surgery is).
* When the speaker pauses between the and the next word (the … sovereignty).
* In many but not all dialects, when the next word begins with a vowel sound (the onion) (compare with a vs. an).
The word is generally pronounced indistinctly as /ðə/ or merely /ð/ in other situations, such as when attached to a word beginning with a consonant sound.
The typographical pronunciation /jiː/ ("Ye Old...") is a deliberately archaic retronym from ye, which is a variant spelling of þe, from Old English þē pronounced thē, /θeː/, /ðeː/ (using y in place of the thorn (þ). It is not actually a separate pronunciation in Middle English. The actual morpheme /jiː/ in Middle English represents ȝe-, a variant spelling of the prefix y- attached to verbs and used to denote a verbal past participle.

### Etymology 1

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pronoun), a late variant of sē, the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem.
Originally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms (sē m, sēo f, þæt n, þā pl); sē is from Proto-West Germanic *siz, from Proto-Germanic *sa, ultimately from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.

#### Article

the
* 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. [from 10th c.]
    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
**** 2016, VOA Learning English‎, archived from the original on 30 September 2017:I sleep in the bedroom!
*** ...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. [from 10th c.]
    No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
    God save the Queen!
***** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:8, column 2: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.
**** Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. [from 12th c.]
    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 before a body part, a family member, a pet (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. [from 12th c.]
    A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
    (informal) How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")
**** (colloquial) Precedes a familiar nickname or other term of address.
    How's the Sal today?"How are you, Sal?"
**** 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
    square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater
** When stressed, indicates that it describes something which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. [from 18th c.]
    That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
*** 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:"Good Heavens, man! Why, he is the authority. If you want pure laboratory experiments those are the books."
*** 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:“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.
** Used before a noun phrase beginning with superlative or comparative adjective or an ordinal number, indicating that the noun refers to a single item.
    That was the juiciest apple pie ever.
    May the better man win.
** Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. [from 9th c.]
*** 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 536:Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.
    The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.
** Used with the plural of a surname to indicate the entire family.
    The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.
* Used with an adjective
** Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. [from 9th c.]
    That apple pie was the best.
** Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. [from 9th c.]
    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 a demonym ending in -ish, -ese or -ch (when pronounced /tʃ/) to refer to people of a given country collectively.
    the Irish are...; the Chinese are...; the French are...

##### Usage notes

The word the precedes proper nouns in a number of cases, although most proper nouns use no article. There are always exceptions. See also Appendix:English proper nouns for more information.

###### Countries

As a general rule, country names are not preceded by the. There are a few exceptions, most of which are pluralised:
* the Netherlands (or The Netherlands)
* the Bahamas (or The Bahamas)
* the Maldives (or The Maldives)
* the Seychelles (or The Seychelles; also used without the article)
* the Philippines
* the Solomon Islands, the Faroe Islands, etc
* the Gambia (or The Gambia)
* (dated, proscribed) the Sudan (or The Sudan)
* (dated, proscribed) the Ukraine (or The Ukraine; article dropped since 1991)
* (obsolete) the Yemen (or The Yemen)
* (obsolete) the Lebanon (or The Lebanon)
Names of countries containing specifications like kingdom, republic etc are used with the:
* the United States of America
* the United Kingdom
* the United Arab Emirates
* the Czech Republic
* the Swiss Confederation
* the Kingdom of Denmark
* the Republic of Austria
* the Sultanate of Oman
* the European Union

###### Place names

Some place names use a definite article:
* All oceans (the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean)
* All seas (the Red Sea, the Bering Sea, the Caribbean Sea), and straits (the Strait of Magellan, the Bering Strait, the Bosphorus)
* All rivers (the Amazon, the Nile, the Mississippi, the Seine, the Yangtze), canals (the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal) and deltas (the Nile Delta, the Orinoco Delta, the Colorado River Delta)
* All art galleries (the Tate, the Louvre, The Smithsonian American Art Museum), all museums with the word museum in the name (the Museum of Natural History, the British Museum)
* All North American railroads, even when not referred to by their full names or only by nicknames (the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading (Reading Railroad), the Frisco (St. Louis–San Francisco Railway))
* Some towns (the Bronx, The Hague, The Valley, The Farrington, The Quarter, The Plains, The Dalles, The Villages, The Woodlands, The Pas, the Vatican, The Hyde, the West End, the East End, or the City of ...)

###### Bands

Musical bands with a plural name are generally used with the:
* The Beatles
* The Rolling Stones

###### Newspapers

Most English-language newspapers take "the" before the name. Style guides differ on whether "the" is capitalised.
* The New York Times, The Guardian, The Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal

###### Organisations

Usage of "the" before names of organisations varies from organisation to organisation. Names containing a noun that denotes the type of organisation generally take the definite article.
* the World Health Organisation, the Department of Labor, the Country Women's Association, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Roman Catholic Church, the Salvation Army
* the United Nations (exceptionally)
If the full organisation name uses "the", the abbreviation often does as well:
* the WHO, the DOL, the CWA, the BBC, the UN
For universities, "the" is used in names starting with the word "university", and some others:
* the University of North Carolina, the Ohio State University – but Harvard University
* compare the University of Oxford with Oxford University

##### Alternative forms

* da (d'), teh (informal or dialectal)
* de (eye dialect, AAVE)
* t' (Northern England)
* th' (poetic, usually before a vowel sound)
* ye (archaic), y$^e$ (archaic, abbreviation), yͤ (archaic, abbreviation)
* ẏe (obsolete), ẏ$^e$ (obsolete, abbreviation)

##### Synonyms

* le

##### Derived terms

* all the time
* Jack the Ripper
* the heck
* the hell
* the man
* the one
* th'other
* Proverbs using the (article)
* Idioms using the (article)

##### Translations

Afrikaans: die (af)
Albanian: (definite form endings are used, e.g.:) -a, -i, (after k, g, or h) -u
Amharic: (-u, -w) (masculine) (-wa, -itwa, -ätwa) (feminine) (final enclitic suffixes)
Arabic: الـ (ar) (al-) (written together with the following words, "l" assimilates with sun letters)
Egyptian Arabic: الـ (el), (written together with the following words, "l" assimilates with sun letters and ج, ك)
Aragonese: lo
Aramaic: ־א, ־י, ־תא
Armenian: -ը (-ə), (before vowels) -ն (-n)
Aromanian: -lu
Asturian: el (ast)
Bashkir: not used in Bashkir
Basque: -a (eu)
Belarusian: not used in Belarusian
Belizean Creole: di
Bengali: suffixes based on number, formality and animacy
(plural animate) -রা (bn) (-ra), -এরা (bn) (-era)
(plural, informal, inanimate) -গুলা (bn) (-gula), (plural, formal, inanimate) -গুলো (bn) (-gulō)
(singular informal) -টা (bn) (-ṭa), (singular formal) -টি (bn) (-ṭi)
Bikol Central: an (bcl)
Breton: al (br) (before L), an (br) (before D, N, T, silent H, and vowels), ar (br) (before other consonants)
Bulgarian: (attached suffixes are used, -ът, -та, -то, etc.)
Burmese: not used in Burmese
Catalan: el (ca) m, la (ca) f els (ca) m pl les (ca) f pl, (salat dialects) es (ca) m, sa (ca) f, es (ca) m pl, ets (ca) m pl (before a word beginning with a vowel sound), sos (ca) m pl (after amb (ca) (with)), ses (ca) f pl,
Chinese:
Mandarin: not used in Mandarin
Chuukese: ewe, we
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲡⲓ- (pi-)
Sahidic: ⲡ- (p-)
Cornish: an
Czech: not used in Czech
Dalmatian: el
Danish: -en (da) c or -et (da) n (singular, no adjective or genitive), den (da) c or det (da) n (singular, before adjective or genitive), -ene or -ne pl (plural, no adjective or genitive), de (da) pl (plural, before adjective or genitive)
Dutch: de (nl), het (nl)
Egyptian:
Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian: not used
Late Egyptian: (pꜣ)
Esperanto: la (eo)
Estonian: not used in Estonian
Faroese: (after noun) -in; (before adjectives) tann, hin (fo)
Finnish: not used in Finnish
Colloquial Finnish : se (fi)
French: le (fr) m, la (fr) f, les (fr) pl, l’ (fr) (before a vowel or a mute h)
Friulian: il
Galician: o (gl), a (gl) f, os (gl) m, as (gl) f pl
Georgian: not used in Georgian
Old Georgian: იგი (igi)
German: der (de) m, die (de) f or pl, das (de) n
Alemannic German: de
Central Franconian: dä
Silesian: dr
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰 (sa)
Greek:
Ancient: ὁ (ho)
Epic: not used, ὁ (ho) (rare)
Modern: ο (el) (o)
Guerrero Amuzgo: i' sg, eⁿ' pl
Hajong: -ৰৗ
Hawaiian: ka, ke sg; nā pl
Hebrew: ה־ (he) (ha-) (written together with the following word)
Hindi: not used in Hindi
Hungarian: a (hu) (before consonant), az (hu) (before vowel)
Icelandic: -inn, hinn (is)
Ido: la (io), le (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Ilocano:
(common noun, core) dagiti pl,
(common noun, core) ti sg,
(common noun, oblique) iti sg,
(common noun, oblique) kadagiti pl,
(person, core) da pl,
(person, core) ni sg,
(person, oblique) kada pl
(person, oblique) ken ni sg,
Indonesian: si (id), sang (id), itu (id), al (id), -nya (id)
Interlingua: le (ia)
Irish: an (ga) sg, na pl
Old Irish: in m or f, a n
Istriot: el
Italian: il (it) m, lo (it) m, la (it) f, i (it) m pl, gli (it) m pl, le (it) f pl
Japanese: not used in Japanese, その (ja) (sono), 正に (ja) (まさに, masani), 正しく (ja) (まさしく, masashiku)
Jarawa: ɖi
Kazakh: not used in Kazakh (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
Khmer: not used in Khmer
Korean: not used in Korean
Ladin: l
Ladino: איל (el)
Lao: not used in Lao
Latin: not used in Latin
Medieval Latin: ille (la), ly
Vulgar Latin: ille (la), ipse (la)
Lithuanian: not used in Lithuanian
Low German: de (nds)
Macedonian: see Appendix:Macedonian articles
Malay: not used in Malay
(animal, rarely necessary) sang (ms)
(if replaceable by it, rarely necessary) -nya (ms)
(if replaceable by that, rarely necessary) itu (ms)
(if replaceable by this, rarely necessary) ini (ms)
(person, rarely necessary) si (ms)
Maltese: il-
Maori: te (mi) (Singular), ngā (mi) (Plural)
Marshallese: eo sg, ro pl (for humans only), ko pl (for non-humans only)
Middle English: þe, the
Mirandese: l
Mòcheno: der m, de f, s n, de pl
Mongolian: not used in Mongolian
Norman: l'
Northern Kankanay:
(focus marker, past referential common noun) din,
(focus marker, personal) si,
(focus marker, recent referential common noun) san,
(focus marker, specific common noun) nan,
(non-focus marker, past referential common noun) isdin,
(non-focus marker, personal) ken
(non-focus marker, recent referential common noun) issan,
(non-focus marker, specific common noun) isnan,
(non-focus marker, unspecific common noun) is,
Norwegian:
Bokmål: det (no) n, den (no) f or m, -et (no) n, -en (no) m, -a (no) f
Nynorsk: det (nn) n, den f or m, -et n, -en m, -a f
Occitan: lo (oc) m, eth (oc) m (Pyrenean Gascon) la (oc) f, era (oc) f (Pyrenean Gascon), los (oc) m pl, eths (oc) m pl (Pyrenean Gascon), las (oc) f pl, eras (oc) (Pyrenean Gascon), es (oc) pl (Aranese)
Old Dutch: thie
Old English: sē (ang)
Old Saxon: thē
Persian: not used in Persian; را (fa) (râ) for definite direct object
Pipil: ne
Pitcairn-Norfolk: t'
Polish: not used in Polish
Portuguese: o (pt) m, a (pt) f, os (pt) m pl, as (pt) f pl
Rapa Nui: te
Romani: o m, i f, e pl
Romanian: -ul, -a, cel (ro), cea (ro)
Romansch: il
Russian: not used in Russian
Samoan: le
Sardinian: su m, sa f
Scots: the
Scottish Gaelic: an
Serbo-Croatian: not used in Serbo-Croatian
Sicilian: lu (scn)
Sinhalese: not used in Sinhalese
Slovak: not used in Slovak
Slovene: not used in Slovene
Spanish: el (es) m, la (es) f, los (es) m pl, las (es) f pl, lo (es) n
Swahili: ya
Swedish: den (sv), -en (sv)
Tagalog: ang (tl)
Tamil: not used in Tamil (demonstratives serve a similar purpose)
Tatar: not used in Tatar (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
Thai: เดอะ (də̀)
Tok Pisin: dispela
Tongan: te
Turkish: not used in Turkish (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
Tuvaluan: te
Ukrainian: not used in Ukrainian
Urdu: not used in Urdu
Venetan: el (vec)
Veps: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: not used in Vietnamese
Volapük: (♂♀, animate or inanimate, usually used with non-Volapük words) el (vo), (♂) hiel (vo), (♂♀) jiel (vo)
Võro: please add this translation if you can
Votic: not used in Votic
Walloon: li (wa), el (wa)
Welsh: y (cy)
West Frisian: de (fy)
Yiddish: דער m (der), די f (di), דאָס n (dos), די pl (di)
Zazaki: be (diq), ebe (diq), eve (diq) :

##### References

* ↑ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 2. Reihe: Wörterbücher) (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN, pages 732-733

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Adverb

the (not comparable)
* With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
    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, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
    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 superlative adjective) Beyond all others.
    We went the furthest under her leadership.
    They trusted him the most.

##### Usage notes

This is called the "comparative correlative", but it is also known as the "correlative construction", the "conditional comparative", or the "the...the construction".

##### Derived terms

* nevertheless
* nonetheless

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Preposition

the
* For each; per.
    valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest
** 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: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.”
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:the.

### Etymology 4
#### Pronoun

the
* Obsolete form of thee.
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvj:[24], folio cxcv, recto:Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.

### See also

* a
* an
* (slang) da
* (slang) de
* t’
* that
* this
* Grammatical article on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* “the”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* eth-, Eth., TEH, teh, ETH, Eth, het, EHT, HET, eth, Teh, -eth

## Crimean Gothic
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sa.

### Article

the
* the
** [1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, (Please provide the book title or journal name):omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut thespecifically/but [he/she] placed the article tho or the before every word]

#### Usage notes

While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.

## Danish
### Noun

the c
* Alternative spelling of te (“tea”)
** 2016, Thorkild Hansen, Genklang: Rejser og portrætter 1959-89, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:Vi vågnede ved 6tiden og lavede dejlig the.We got up at about 6 AM and made lovely tea.
** 2015, Lotte Heise, Tina Bryld, Selvfølgelig skal hun bo hos mig: om at bo med sin handicappede mor, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:Hun smiler over hele femøren, da duften af te breder sig: ”Uha, dejlig the.”She smiles broadly, as the scent of tea spreads: ”Oh, lovely tea.”

#### Declension
## Eastern Arrernte
### Pronoun

the
* I (first person singular pronoun)

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Hadza
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰe/

### Pronoun

the m (fem. theko)
* you (thou)

#### Related terms

* ethebee

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /te/

### Noun

the (plural thes)
* tea

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hɛ]

### Adjective

the
* Lenited form of te.

## Italian
### Noun

the
* Misspelling of tè.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Article

the
* Alternative form of þe (“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)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

the
* Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

the
* Alternative form of þei (“they”)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

the
* Alternative form of theen

## Murrinh-Patha
### Noun

the
* ear

### See also

* ye (incorporated noun)

### References

* Mark Abley (2003) Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (in Murrinh-Patha)

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* de

### Particle

the (indeclinable, relative)
* that, who, which

#### References

* Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

## Old Saxon
### Etymology 1

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

#### Determiner

thē
* that, that one
    them uuīha uuīsa lēstean: To obey that holy wise.

##### Descendants

* Middle Low German: de
** Low German: de

### Etymology 2

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

#### Particle

the (indeclinable, relative)
* that, who, which

## Phalura
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰe/

### Postposition

the (تھےۡ)
* to
* for
* at

### References

* Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “the”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* tha (common in Ulster Scots literature)

### Etymology

From Old English se.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ðə]
* (Shetland) IPA: [də] (often written da)
* (chiefly North Northern Scots, northern East Central Scots) IPA: [i], [ə] (often written ee or 'e)
* (some Glasgow speakers) IPA: [rə] (often written ra)

### Determiner

the
* the (definite article)

#### Usage notes

* The definite article is used a lot more frequently idiomatically in Scots than in English.

### Further reading

* “the”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Conjunction

the (no known Cyrillic variant)
* (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of da
    neki kreten the ih drka emotivno
       some jerk to fuck with them emotionally
    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

## South Slavey
### Etymology

Cognates include Dogrib whe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [θɛ̀(ʔ)]
* Hyphenation: the

### Noun

the (stem -dhe-)
* belt

#### Inflection

$^{1)}$ Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. $^{2)}$ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

### References

* Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 38

## Swedish
### Noun

the n
* Alternative spelling of te (tea)

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* -het, het

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tʰɛ˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tʰɛ˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tʰɛ˧˧]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

the • (絁, 𦂛, 施, 𫄋)
* a kind of silk gauze, often used to make ao dai

##### Derived terms

* buồng the
* phòng the

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

the • (施)
* having a strong and fragrant smell or flavor, usually overlaps with what described as "minty" or "citrusy" in English

##### Derived terms

* the mát

## Welsh
### Noun

the
* Aspirate mutation of te.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Yola
### Article

the
* Alternative form of a (“the”)
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:Th' ball want a cowlee, the gazb maate all rize;The ball o'er shot the goal, the dust rose all about;

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88