Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Demonstratives are adjectives and pronouns that indicate which objects a sentence is referring to. English has four demonstratives: 'this', 'that', 'these', and 'those'. Latin had several sets of demonstratives, including: hic, haec, hoc ille, illa, illud iste, ista, istud The second set, 'ille', etc., meaning 'that', developed into the definite articles in several Romance languages, such as 'el', 'la', 'los', 'las' in Spanish, and 'le', 'la', 'les' in French. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.