this one

this one (plural these ones)

A specified object, thing or person (especially one nearby or known). (This entry is a translation hub.)
Which one do you want?
— This one!
(see usage notes) Refers to the speaker; I, me.
Coordinate term: that one
- 2024 September 12, natalie[ee] roentgen connolly, “implementing goto statements in python (in under 50 lines)”, in natalieee dot net‎ (blogpost), archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
  please note: this one knows nothing about python. if the reader sees something that it is wrong about, they are encouraged to e-mail it. […]
- 2024 October 17, sophie raven, “building a visor for unit ⛧-440729”, in 999eagle.moe‎ (blogpost), archived from the original on 14 November 2024:
  step 2: display ¶ this took some time to do first, as this one initially had no idea how to acquire a transparent display. until randomly it found an led panel on aliexpress with holes in between the leds! this seemed like a good way to do this cheaply, so it got some of those to experiment with.
- 2025 July 16, Raven Winters, “I've Always Been Gay”, in ravenwinters.org‎ (blogpost), archived from the original on 23 July 2025:
  I learned that cis heteronormative life wasn’t what I had in mind. More like the the^[sic] lesbian dream of a cat, a Subaru, a cozy apartment or house together. No white-picket fence and 2.5 kids for this one.

Sense 2: Used by some speakers who avoid first-person pronouns, e.g. those who are denied (in BDSM, fictional depictions of slavery, etc) or reject individuality.

a specified object

Arabic: هٰذَا (ar) (hāḏā)
Catalan: aquest (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎯᎠ (hia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 這個 / 这个 (zh) (zhège, zhèige)
Finnish: tämä (fi)
French: celui-ci (fr) m, celle-ci (fr) f, ceux-ci (fr) m pl, celles-ci (fr) f pl
Gallo: c'ti-ci
German: dieser (de), der (de)
Hungarian: ez(t) (hu) (“-t” added if it’s the object of the verb, as in “I want this one”)
Indonesian: yang ini
Italian: questo (it), questo qua
Japanese: これ (ja) (kore)
Korean: 이것 (ko) (igeot)
Macedonian: о́вој m (óvoj), о́ваа f (óvaa), о́ва n (óva)
Malay: yang ini
Persian: این یکی (in-yeki)
Polish: ten (pl), ów (pl) (rare, slightly different meaning)
Portuguese: este (pt), esse (pt)
Romanian: ăsta (ro) m or n, acesta (ro) m or n
Russian: э́тот (ru) m (étot), э́та (ru) f (éta), э́то (ru) n (éto)
Spanish: éste (es) m, ésta (es) f
Swedish: den här (sv) c, det här (sv) n, de här (sv) pl
Tamil: இது (ta) (itu)
Walloon: ci-ci m, ci-cial (wa) m, cisse-cile (wa) f, cisse-cial f, ces-ci m pl, ces-cial m pl, cesses-cile f pl, cesses-cial (wa) f pl

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