that

Meanings

Pronoun

  • The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  • The known (thing); .
  • The aforementioned quality or proposition; .
  • (plural that) Which, who; .

Adverb

Noun

  • Something being indicated that is there; one of those.

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Origin

  • From Middle English that, from Old English þæt ("the, that"), from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate to Saterland Frisian dät, West Frisian dat, Dutch dat, Low German dat, German dass and das, Danish det, Swedish det, Icelandic það.

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