Demonstrative pronouns (أَسْمَاءُ الِإشَارة)

Demonstrative pronouns are words that serve to identify objects, entities, or places by pointing to their relative distance from the speaker.

Demonstrative pronouns always refer to something specific (always definiteness).

We have already encountered some of the demonstrative pronouns in this article (هذا) and in this one (ذلك).

Examples

هَذا بَـيْتٌ This is a house

الـهَاتِفُ هُنَا The phone is here

Near distances

Male

هَذَا This

Feminine

هَذِهِ This

For both (male, female)

هَؤُلاءِ These

Far distances

Male

ذَاك That

ذَلكَ That

Female

تِلْكَ That

For both (male and female)

أُولَئِكَ Those

Pinpoint locations

Demonstrative pronouns for far distance

هُنَا Here

Demonstrative pronouns for near distances

هُنَاكَ There