Translation
this; this one
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Examples
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This man is my brother.
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This city is beautiful.
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I do not understand this.
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Read this book.
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Many people live in these lands.
The near demonstrative: this thing here, close to the speaker in space, time or sympathy. Its opposite number is "ille", that thing over there. When a Roman writer sets the two against each other in the same sentence, "hic" points to the LATTER of two things already mentioned and "ille" to the former.
The forms are irregular and worth drilling as a set. In the singular: hic, haec, hoc for the subject; hunc, hanc, hoc for the object; huius for "of this"; huic for "to this"; hoc and hac for the ablative. In the plural: hi, hae, haec; hos, has, haec; horum, harum, horum; and "his" for both dative and ablative in every gender.
Like every demonstrative it agrees with its noun in gender, number and case, and it stands perfectly well on its own as a pronoun meaning "this man" or "this thing".
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(11)Bene fecisti!
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Vinum bonum
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Et cum spiritu tuo
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Carmina mea
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In principio erat Verbum
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Si tuleritis
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Ex Britannia
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Odi et amo
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In parietibus Pompeianis
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Gallia est omnis divisa
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Lupus et agnus
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Grammar articles
(6)Latin Demonstratives: Hic, Haec, Hoc and Ille Charts
Latin Fourth and Fifth Declensions: manus, res, dies
Latin Interjections and Conversation Words: heus, ecce, edepol
Latin ipse, idem and iste: Himself, the Same, That of Yours
Latin Pronouns Chart: ego, is, hic, ille and qui
Latin Relative Pronoun: qui, quae, quod and How It Agrees
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 6: hic, enim, atque and 8 more words.