això
Catalan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin ipsum hoc.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈʃɔ]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ajˈʃɔ]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ
Pronoun
[edit]això
Usage notes
[edit]- In the classic three-grade system, això is second grade and thus means “that”; systems that do not distinguish or weakly distinguish the first and second grades have això supplant açò, thus having it mean “this” as well.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]| determiner | pronoun | locative | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | near | aquest, este1 | açò2, ço1 | ací1 |
| 2nd | neutral | aqueix1, eixe1 | això | aquí, ahí2 |
| 3rd | remote | aquell | allò | allà, allí |
1 Dialectal, archaic in other dialects
2 Valencian
Further reading
[edit]- “això”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “això”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “això” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “això”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)