those

//ðoʊz//

A1Frequency Level 1Neutral

Determiner

Used to identify specific people or things that are at a distance from the speaker or that have been previously mentioned

Those books on the shelf are mine.

Used to refer to the more distant of two things near to the speaker (contrasted with 'these')

I prefer those books on the top shelf, not these ones here.

thoseCanonical form

Used to refer to specific people or things at a distance or previously mentioned, standing alone without a following noun

I prefer these shoes to those.