The

//ðə//

Synonyms for "the" (2 found)

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Article(1 words)

Related words (1)

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Translations

338 translations across 107 languages.

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Afrikaans

4 entries
  • die article (article)
  • die article (this)
  • die article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • die article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)

Albanian

3 entries
  • a article (article)
  • i article (article)
  • u article (article)

Ancient Egyptian

1 entries
  • pA (pꜣ) article (article)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • article (article)

Ao

1 entries
  • ji (Chungli) article (article)

Arabic

2 entries
  • الـ article (article)
  • الـ article (article)

Aragonese

1 entries
  • lo article (article)

Aramaic

3 entries
  • ־א article (article)
  • ־י article (article)
  • ־תא article (article)

Armenian

2 entries
  • ը article (article)
  • ն article (article)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • lu article (article)

Asturian

1 entries
  • el article (article)

Bangla

4 entries
  • এরা article (article)
  • গুলা article (article)
  • গুলো article (article)
  • টা article (article)

Basque

1 entries
  • a article (article)

Belizean Creole

1 entries
  • di article (article)

Bengali

1 entries
  • formality and animacy article (article)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • an article (article)

Breton

3 entries
  • al article (article)
  • an article (article)
  • ar article (article)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • по adv (indicating a result like the comparative)
  • та article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • та article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • те article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)

Catalan

4 entries
  • el article (article)
  • es article (article)
  • es article (article)
  • ets article (article)

Central Franconian

1 entries
  • article (article)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 愈……愈…… adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • 越……越…… adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)

Chuukese

2 entries
  • ewe article (article)
  • we article (article)

Cornish

1 entries
  • an article (article)

Dalmatian

1 entries
  • el article (article)

Dutch

4 entries
  • de article (article)
  • de article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • de article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • de article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • la article (article)
  • la article (with a superlative)

Estonian

1 entries
  • see article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)

Ewe

2 entries
  • article (article)
  • á article (article)

Faroese

3 entries
  • hin article (article)
  • in article (article)
  • tann article (article)

Finnish

4 entries
  • but see entistä adv (indicating a result like the comparative)
  • sitä adv (indicating a result like the comparative)
  • heidän article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • hänen article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)

French

4 entries
  • colloquial or regional usage adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • comp. adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • comp. adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • l' article (article)

Friulian

4 entries
  • i article (article)
  • il article (article)
  • l' article (article)
  • la article (article)

Galician

4 entries
  • a article (article)
  • as article (article)
  • o article (article)
  • o article (with a superlative)

German

4 entries
  • umso adv (indicating a result like the comparative)
  • das article (article)
  • de article (article)
  • den article (introducing dates in a letter, such as "the 1st of May 2025")

Gothic

1 entries
  • 𐍃𐌰 article (article)

Greek

4 entries
  • ο article (article)
  • ο article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • ο article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
  • ο article (with a superlative)

Guerrero Amuzgo

2 entries
  • eⁿ' article (article)
  • i' article (article)

Hajong

1 entries
  • ৰৗ article (article)

Hawaiian

3 entries
  • ka article (article)
  • ke article (article)
  • article (article)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • ה־ article (article)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • a article (article)
  • a article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
  • az article (article)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • hinn article (article)
  • inn article (article)

Ido

2 entries
  • la article (article)
  • le article (article)

Ilocano

4 entries
  • da article (article)
  • dagiti article (article)
  • iti article (article)
  • kada article (article)

Indonesian

4 entries
  • al article (article)
  • itu article (article)
  • nya article (article)
  • sang article (article)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • le article (article)

Irish

2 entries
  • an article (article)
  • na article (article)

Isoko

1 entries
  • na article (article)

Istriot

1 entries
  • el article (article)

Italian

4 entries
  • gli article (article)
  • i article (article)
  • i article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
  • il article (article)

Japanese

4 entries
  • その article (article)
  • その article (this)
  • article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • 正しく article (article)

Jarawa

1 entries
  • ɖi article (article)

Kankanaey

4 entries
  • din article (article)
  • is article (article)
  • isdin article (article)
  • isnan article (article)

Korean

1 entries
  • 을수록 adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)

Ladin

2 entries
  • l article (article)
  • l article (with a superlative)

Ladino

1 entries
  • איל article (article)

Latin

4 entries
  • ille article (article)
  • ille article (article)
  • ipse article (article)
  • ly article (article)

Low German

1 entries
  • de article (article)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • ов article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • от article (used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
  • те article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)

Malay

4 entries
  • lagi..., lagi... adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • semakin..., semakin... adv (the + comparative, the + comparative)
  • ini article (article)
  • itu article (article)

Maltese

1 entries
  • il article (article)

Marshallese

3 entries
  • eo article (article)
  • ko article (article)
  • ro article (article)

Middle English

2 entries
  • the article (article)
  • þe article (article)

Mirandese

1 entries
  • l article (article)

Mòcheno

4 entries
  • de article (article)
  • de article (article)
  • der article (article)
  • s article (article)

Māori

2 entries
  • ngā article (article)
  • te article (article)

Norman

1 entries
  • l' article (article)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries
  • a article (article)
  • den article (article)
  • det article (article)
  • en article (article)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries
  • a article (article)
  • den article (article)
  • det article (article)
  • en article (article)

O'odham

1 entries
  • g article (article)

Occitan

4 entries
  • era (Pyrenean Gascon) article (article)
  • eras (Pyrenean Gascon) article (article)
  • es article (article)
  • eth m la (Pyrenean Gascon) article (article)

Old Dutch

1 entries
  • thie article (article)

Old English

1 entries
  • article (article)

Old Georgian

1 entries
  • იგი article (article)

Old Irish

2 entries
  • a article (article)
  • in article (article)

Old Saxon

1 entries
  • thē article (article)

Ossetian

1 entries
  • и article (article)

Persian

2 entries
  • این article (this)
  • را for definite direct object article (article)

Pipil

1 entries
  • ne article (article)

Pitcairn-Norfolk

1 entries
  • t' article (article)

Polish

1 entries
  • ten article (this)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • a article (article)
  • as article (article)
  • o article (article)
  • o article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)

Rapa Nui

1 entries
  • te article (article)

Romani

3 entries
  • e article (article)
  • i article (article)
  • o article (article)

Romanian

4 entries
  • a article (article)
  • cea article (article)
  • cel article (article)
  • ul article (article)

Romansch

4 entries
  • il article (article)
  • ils article (article)
  • l' article (article)
  • la article (article)

Samoan

1 entries
  • le article (article)

Sanskrit

4 entries
  • तद् article (article)
  • तद् article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • तद् article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
  • article (article)

Sardinian

2 entries
  • sa article (article)
  • su article (article)

Scots

1 entries
  • the article (article)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • an article (article)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • lu article (article)

Spanish

4 entries
  • el article (article)
  • el article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • el article (with a superlative)
  • el article (used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)

Swahili

1 entries
  • ya article (article)

Swedish

4 entries
  • den article (article)
  • den article (used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
  • den article (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
  • den article (with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • ang article (article)
  • ang article (used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)

Tok Pisin

2 entries
  • dispela article (article)
  • dispela article (this)

Tongan

1 entries
  • te article (article)

Tuvaluan

1 entries
  • te article (article)

Venetan

2 entries
  • el article (article)
  • el article (with a superlative)

Volapük

2 entries
  • hiel article (article)
  • jiel article (article)

Walloon

2 entries
  • el article (article)
  • li article (article)

Welsh

1 entries
  • y article (article)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • de article (article)

Woiwurrung

1 entries
  • koogik article (article)

Yiddish

4 entries
  • דאָס article (article)
  • די article (article)
  • די article (article)
  • דער article (article)

Zazaki

3 entries
  • be (diq) article (article)
  • ebe (diq) article (article)
  • eve (diq) article (article)

Sample sentences

52 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The password is "Muiriel".

Source: tatoeba (1283)

I was in the mountains.

Source: tatoeba (1290)

I don't know if I have the time.

Source: tatoeba (1292)

I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.

Source: tatoeba (1305)

Showing 4 of 52 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.