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Definition: Thing |
ThingNoun1. A special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing". 2. An action; "how could you do such a thing?". 3. An artifact; "how does this thing work?". 4. An event: "a funny thing happened on the way to the...". 5. A statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?". 6. Any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence: "the thing I like about her is ...". 7. A special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart". 8. A vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well". 9. An entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was". 10. : a special objective: "the thing is to stay in bounds". 11. : a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion: "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him". 12. : a separate and self-contained entity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (chujnia ). (references) |
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For thing as an English word for a generic object, see Philosophy, Entity, Widget.
A Thing is the governing assembly in Viking societies made up of the free men of the community.
In the pre-Christian clan-culture of Scandinavia the members of a clan were obliged to avenge injuries against their dead and mutilated relatives. A balancing structure was necessary to reduce tribal feuds and avoid social anarchy. We know from the North-Germanic cultures the balancing institution as the Thing ("ting" or "þing"), although similar assemblies are reported also from other Germanic peoples.
The Thing was the assembly of the free men of a hundred (härad/herred) or a similar district. Hierarchies of things could exists, so that the local things were represented at the thing for a larger area, for a province or land.
At the thing disputes were solved and political decisions were made. The place for the Thing was often also the place for public religious rites and for commerce.
The Thing met at regular intervals, legislated, elected chieftains, and judged according to the law, memorized and recited by the "law speaker" (the judge). The Thing's negotiations were presided over by the law speaker or the chieftain. In reality the thing was of course dominated by the most influential members of the community, the heads of clans and wealthy families, but in theory one-man one-vote was the rule.
Gotland, as an example, had in late medieval time twenty things, each represented at the island-Thing (landsting) by its elected judge. (The judge also conducted the local Thing.) New laws were decided at the landsting, which also took other decisions regarding the island as a whole. The landsting's authority was successively eroded after the island being occupied by the Teutonic Order in 1398, then sold to Eric of Pomerania and after 1449 ruled by Danish governors.
In late Swedish medieval time the Thing-court consisted of twelve representatives for the farmers (free-holders or tenants). Still in the 20th century ting is the name of the lowest courts of justice: "Häradsting" and "Tingsrätt".
"Landsting", which is the Swedish name for the current County Councils of Sweden, was also used as the name of the highest thing in the regions that later became the historical Provinces of Sweden.
References
- Nordic FAQ of soc.culture.nordic (with permission)
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Ben Grimm aka The Thing is a fictional character from the Marvel Universe, a founding member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four under the guise of the superstrong Thing. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby first appearing in Fantastic Four #1 (1961).The cantakerously lovable, cigar-smoking native of Brooklyn is popularly recognized as being the alter-ego of Kirby. Pilot Ben Grimm accompanied by long-time friend and scientist Reed Richards, his fiancee Susan Storm and her brother Johnny Storm took an experimental ride into the upper atmosphere of Earth where they were unluckily pelted by a cosmic ray storm. Upon crashing down to Earth each of the four learnt that they had developed fantastic superpowers. Grimm had been transformed into a massive orange humanoid pile of earthy rock. Richards proposed the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity and Grimm, in a moment of self-pity, adopted the superheroic sobriquet of the Thing.
Trapped in his monstrous form Grimm was an unhappy yet reliable member of the team. He trusted in his friend Reed Richards to one day develop a cure for his condition. However, when he encountered blind sculptress Alicia Masters Grimm developed a subconscious resistance to being transformed back to his human form. Fearing that Masters preferred him to remain in the monstrous form of the Thing, Grimm's body rejected various attempts by Richards to restore his human form lest he lose the love of Masters. His subconscious fear kept in in his rocky form and Grimm remained a stalwart member of the Fantastic Four for years. He left the team when he opted to remain on an alien planet where he could control his transformation to and from his rocky superpowered form. Upon returning to Earth he learnt that Masters had become romantically involved with another while he was absent. Grimm wallowed in self-pity for a time but eventually returned to his surrogate family and even became the leader of the Fantastic Four for a time.
After being further mutated into a more monstrous rocky form and briefly being changed back to his human form, Grimm has once more returned to his traditional orange rocky form. He remains a steadfast member of the Fantastic Four and one of the most easily recognizable characters of the Marvel Universe.
According to recent interviews, writer Jack Kirby had intended Ben Grimm to be sort of alter-ego. However, as was usual for comic-book characters of that era, no religion was publicly mentioned. A recent issue of the Fantastic Four made the news - especially many major American Jewish newspapers - when Grimm was revealed to be Jewish in the issue "Remembrance of Things Past".
BeliefNet article on Ben Grimm and Jewish comic book writers
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Synonyms: ThingSynonyms: affair (n), matter (n). (additional references) |
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Eventuality | Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent. |
Fashion | Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word. |
MATERIALITY | Object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones; materials . |
Substantiality | Noun: substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thing |
| English words defined with "thing": for one thing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thing": Bad Thing ♦ doing the Mom thing ♦ Right Thing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thing": Whit. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I am the only real thing you have (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) What dope'd wear a thing like this (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.) What's the last thing that you do remember (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) | |
Lyrics | And I don't want to miss a thing (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) Nothing can stop this thing that we got (Can't Stop This Thing We Started; performing artist: Bryan Adams) Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Now I've lost the thing That I had to say I know you're no good that way You send me, you wanted this, too Take your heart I think I get it now Well I just can't prolong Somehow I'll really do See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true Time was we'd drop out everything And there was a peace you'd bring But you didn't wanna go Talked about the hell we'd both been through Seemed like the thing to do Like something I needed to know See if it's true See if it's true (Seemed Like the Thing to Do; performing artist: Dino) The one good thing in my life (Good thing; performing artist: Fine Young Cannibals) My love don't cost a thing (Love Don't Cost A Thing; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
Clever | The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (references; author: Bob Hope) Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (references; author: W.C. Fields) Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. (references; author: Mark Twain) A closed mind is a good thing to lose. (references; author: unknown) Heroes and winners aren't the same thing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Play's the Thing (1974) A Very Natural Thing (1974) The Big Thing (1973) Doing Their Thing (1971) The Only Thing You Know (1971) | |
Song Titles | Last Thing On My Mind, The (performing artist: Neil Diamond) Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me (performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips) Love Don’t' Cost A Thing (performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) No Such Thing (performing artist: John Mayer) The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known) (performing artist: Juice Newton) | |
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 | "The Thing" (movie) by Jerry Thornhill. |  | I think I'll take this thing for a spin NOAA diver gets ready for a spin on a tourist moped At the end of the cruise ship piers in Nassau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Traveling in style with the gravity field party - Tent camps were now a thing of the past. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Only One Thing Tougher Than The New Drunk Driving Law. : Riding Your Bike In January. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Love is the only thing your partner should give you. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | What a splendid thing the "little old red school house" was for this country ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I don't see why fair play isn't the thing after he leaves college as much as before. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It ain't th' filthy looker I'm doin' it for, George, it's the po'try o' th' thing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pogo]. First thing us do in this school is teach you kids all about brotherly lov. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 'If this is the only safe thing we can do to get back on the front pages, then I say let's do it!' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wild Thing" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "Valleyfair's top coaster, Wild Thing." | "Ring thing" by Jessica Poli Commentary: "My favorite ring on my favorite patio. love." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | To love a thing means wanting it to live. |
Edmund Burke | Contempt is not a thing to be despised. |
Epictetus | No great thing is created suddenly. |
John Selden | Marriage is a desperate thing. |
Leo The Great | Peace is the first thing the angels sang. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | The thing I fear most is fear. |
Milton Friedman | There's no such thing as a free lunch. |
MoliFre | Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two! |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Thought makes every thing fit for use. |
Soren Kierkegaard | Purity of heart is to will one thing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | So the thing be understood, I am indifferent as to the name. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Could I mention any thing more fit to be done, than to go to Mrs. Goddard |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Why, the first thing is to get a disguise |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | That was the thing he had set his heart upon |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We may say, by the way, that success is a hideous thing. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was a very queer thing. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | A thing devised by the enemy |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Here is the anlage of the thing you fear |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Numbers, for one thing. (references) | |
The best thing you can do is to pay attention to your child. (references) | ||
The first thing I do at new places is check the bathroom location. (references) | ||
Business | What the law says is one thing, what the law means is another thing. (references) | |
Their large presentation areas, which offer complete room designs combinations, meet the present trend for "shopping as a fun thing to do." The market leader is the Swedish cash-and-carry chain IKEA with a good dozen outlets in Germany. (references) | ||
For Wupper-Polonia, a company renting tower cranes made by Liebhert, winter work stoppages are a thing of the past. Only several years ago, the winter months (December through February) used to mean several dozen cranes awaiting customers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cuba (09/01) | In January 1992, following the peace agreement in El Salvador, Castro stated that Cuban support for insurgents was a thing of the past. (references) |
Egypt | Firms that sell directly to government agencies need to do the same thing -- ensure training of the workforce using the product or it will fail through ignorance of proper maintenance and the foreign supplier will be blamed for poor quality. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. |
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Alexander Benedetto | Mike went down. Mike just called me. He went down there. The whole thing was a setup to just get me to come down so that they could reincarcerate me. |
Andrew Weil | They're big, but they have contained diuretics, laxatives. This is not a good thing to be on. Really, I would stay away from that and things like it. |
Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, at this point, the only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. |
Diane Sawyer | Right, because I asked for a Kleenex and it was the only thing you had in house at this fine establishment, as I recall. |
Dick Van Dyke | We do benefits, children's hospitals, things like that. We do a lot of benefits, fundraising thing. And we do all kids' songs. |
Matthew Perry | I also had a strange rule about that. I never mixed them, either. One thing at a time for me. One deathly dangerous thing at a time. |
Rush Limbaugh | I've always said that the one thing we know about communists is that they lie, and now Gorby has admitted it! |
Sarah Ferguson | Taking what you've done wrong and realizing that it's a been bonus, actually, and it's positive. It's quite a difficult thing to do. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nor is there any thing in this which, upon a comprehensive view of the general interests of the human race, is to be regretted. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Our life contains every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The first thing that needs to be done, however, is for work to cease on offensive missile bases in Cuba and for all weapons systems in Cuba capable of offensive use to be rendered inoperable, under effective United Nations arrangements. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | One thing that tax reform will not be is a tax increase in disguise. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, let's do one more thing for our children. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Thing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Thing" is used about 35,174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 35,166 | 231 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35,174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baal-hermon | N/A | Biblical | Possessor of destruction or of a thing cursed |
| Dabareh | N/A | Biblical | The thing |
| Deborah | N/A | Biblical | Thing |
| Gibeon | N/A | Biblical | Thing lifted up |
| Nehushtan | N/A | Biblical | A trifling thing of brass |
| Deb | N/A | English | Thing |
| Debbi | N/A | English | Thing |
| Debbie | N/A | English | Thing |
| Debby | N/A | English | Thing |
| Debora | N/A | English | Thing |
| Debra | N/A | English | Thing |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "thing": a mad thing ♦ a near thing ♦ a nice thing indeed! ♦ actual thing ♦ an antiquated thing ♦ another thing ♦ any old thing ♦ bad Thing ♦ be oblivious of a thing ♦ be quite the thing ♦ beautiful thing ♦ become the usual thing ♦ big thing ♦ close thing ♦ clumsy thing ♦ come to the same thing ♦ crafty thing ♦ crazy thing ♦ creeping thing ♦ curious thing ♦ disgusting thing ♦ do a stupid thing ♦ do a thing by halves ♦ do a thing without difficulty ♦ do such a stupid thing ♦ do the polite thing ♦ do the right thing ♦ effing thing ♦ evil thing ♦ extraordinary thing ♦ fall back upon a thing ♦ first thing ♦ foolish thing ♦ for one thing ♦ foul thing ♦ get thing moving ♦ good Thing ♦ have a thing about ♦ have a thing at one's fingers ends ♦ have knowledge of a thing ♦ he knows a thing or two ♦ if you want a thing done do it your self ♦ in thing ♦ it amounts to the same thing ♦ it has become the usual thing with us ♦ it is one thing to promise and another to perform ♦ it's quite the thing ♦ just the thing ♦ lasting thing ♦ let's call the whole thing off ♦ little thing ♦ living thing ♦ lucky thing ♦ make a good thing of ♦ make a thing ♦ marvelous thing ♦ mean thing ♦ nice thing ♦ no such thing ♦ no thing ♦ not to do a thing ♦ one and the same thing ♦ one thing ♦ one thing with another ♦ palm a thing off as ♦ play thing ♦ poor thing ♦ precious thing ♦ quite the thing ♦ real thing ♦ right Thing ♦ say the correct thing ♦ silly thing ♦ simple thing ♦ small thing ♦ soft thing ♦ steal every single thing ♦ stupid thing ♦ sure thing ♦ taken thing ♦ taking one thing with another ♦ tangled thing ♦ that was a nasty thing to say ♦ that's it thing stuff! ♦ that's the whole thing in a nutshell ♦ the done thing ♦ the in thing ♦ the main thing ♦ the most important thing ♦ the most sensible thing to do ♦ the proper thing to do ♦ the real thing ♦ the real thing to do ♦ the right thing to do ♦ the same thing ♦ the thing ♦ the thing is ♦ the thing is that ♦ the usual thing ♦ the very thing ♦ the whole thing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thing": thing-a, thing-all, thing-always, thing-gummyjig, thing-i, thing-if, thing-in-itself, thing-in-it'self, thing-like, thing-not, thing-so, thing-that-matters. | |
Ending with "thing": in-thing, man-thing, spider-thing. | |
Containing "thing": Can't-do-a-thing-about-it, look-here-this-sort-of-thing-won't-do-at-all-you-know, poor-thing-he, poor-thing-how-you-must-be-suffering-thank-god-i'm-not, pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head, some-thing-or-other. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
the thing | 1,159 | a girl thing | 76 |
sweetest thing | 502 | sexy thing | 75 |
volkswagen thing | 402 | guy soundtrack thing | 71 |
guy thing | 395 | linen thing | 71 |
shake that thing | 276 | beautiful thing | 71 |
wild thing | 244 | cheat code thing | 68 |
cheat thing | 228 | sure thing | 67 |
vw thing | 201 | no such thing | 65 |
do the right thing | 169 | sweet thing | 62 |
thing through walk | 158 | hulk thing vs | 60 |
that thing you do | 143 | cheat ps2 thing | 59 |
soundtrack sweetest thing | 138 | lyrics that thing | 54 |
i don t want to miss a thing | 112 | box cheat thing x | 54 |
swamp thing | 102 | one true thing | 52 |
every little thing | 96 | font thing | 51 |
said she thing | 95 | lyrics thing wild | 51 |
funny thing happened on the way to the forum | 90 | i dont want to miss a thing | 49 |
lyrics shake that thing | 89 | don i miss t thing wanna | 47 |
love don t cost a thing | 80 | thing z | 46 |
back that thing up | 79 | a guy thing movie | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "thing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjë (article, baby, item, job, line, object, piece), send (article, item, object, piece). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسألة (affair, case, issue, matter, problem, proposition, question), حالة عامة, أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, warn, word), شىء غير محدد, شىء (contraption, matter, object, something, thingummy). (various references) | |
Basque | gauza. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | същество (being, entity, individual), случай (call, case, chance, event, hazard, incident, occasion, time), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, type, Wight, you), факт (circumstance, datum, deed, fact), въпрос (affair, interrogation, interrogatory, matter, problem, question, subject matter, topic), вещ (adept, canny, discriminating, expert, object, proficient, scientific, skilful, skilled, sophisticated), обстоятелство (circumstance, fact, occasion), нещо важно, нещо необходимо (necessity, needful, requisite), нещо истинско, нещо (affair, anything, aught, do, matter, something, summat), предмет (article, object, subject, subject matter), постъпка (act, action, deed, offence, proceeding, step). (various references) | |
Catalan | objecte, cosa. (various references) | |
Chinese | 事 (affair, item, matter, work). (various references) | |
Czech | tvor (being, creature), to (it, that, the, this, what), tekutina (fluid, stuff), záležitost (affair, business, concern, matter, question), vìc (affair, business, case, cause, concern, re, stuff), stvoření (creation, creature, the creation), předmìt (article, item, matter, object, subject), příšera (monster), otázka (issue, problem, query, question), nápoj (beverage, drink, junketing, the drink), krám (shop). (various references) | |
Danish | ting (article, object, things). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorwerp (article, object), ding (affair, article, business, business deal, case, matter, object, thingamajig, whatchamacallit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | objekto (article, object), aĵo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ting (article, congress, convention, object, parliament), lutur (article, commodity, object, part, Parthian, piece, rôle, share). (various references) | |
Farsi | موجود (Available, Bound, Existent, Extant, Handy, Life, Present, Real, Stock), چیز (Article, Nip, Object, Res, Stuff), کار (Act, Activity, Affair, Appointment, Avocation, Deed, Duty, Fist, Function, Job, Office, Opus, Ploy, Proposition, Service, Shebang, Task, Vocation, Work, Workmanship), لباس (Attire, Clobber, Clothing, Costume, Dress, Garb, Vest, Vestment), جامه (Apparel, Clobber, Costume, Garment, Gear, Habit, Raiment, Suit), اسباب (Apparatus, Apparel, Appliance, Appurtenance, Article, Contraption, Contrivance, Doodad, Engine, Gadget, Gear, Implement, Instrument, Layout, Paraphernalia, Rig, Tackle, Tool, Utensil), اشیاء , شی ء (Res), داراءی (Asset, Estate, Fortune, Possession, Property, Purse, Wealth). (various references) | |
Finnish | esine (article, object). (various references) | |
French | chose, truc (thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, thingy), objet. (various references) | |
Galician | cousas (things). (various references) | |
German | Ding (affair, article, business, business deal, case, Dong, entity, gadget, item, job, matter, object), Sache (affair, article of property, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, job, matter, object, question, subject), Gegenstand (article, item, matter, object, subject, theme, topic). (various references) | |
Greek | πράγμα (article, driftage, item, matter, object). (various references) | |
Guarani | mba'e. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | send (article, object), objekt (article, object), gjë (article, object). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חפץ (article, delight, desire, object, wanting, willing, wish), דבר (affair, anything, matter, message, object, saying, something, word). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teremtés (creation, creature, procreation, saucy bit, the creation), tárgy (chose, matter, object, purport, referent, subject, subject-matter, theme, topic), személy (busybody, character, creature, expletive, guarantor, gusher, head, malcontent, monger, mushroom, neurotic, number, person, persona, snake, stuffed shirt, third party, third person), dolog (affair, business, business deal, case, chose, clinker, close call, crackerjack, dishonour, job, labor, labour, lash-up, ledger, matter, mite, number, object, quickie, quicky, shebang, shocker, startler, stuff, the cards were stacked against me, work), ügy (affair, business, business deal, case, case at issue, cause, go, issue, it is a case in point, matter, proceeding, proposition, shebang, to come out badly of an affair). (various references) | |
Indonesian | benda (article, object). (various references) | |
Irish | rud. (various references) | |
Italian | cosa (article, dud, matter, object, piece, stuff, what), ogetto (article, object). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 物 (object), 事 (business, circumstances, experience, fact, matter, reason), 品 (article, counter for meal courses, dignity, goods). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しなもの (article, goods), しな (article, China, coquetry, counter for meal courses, dignity, goods), しろもの (affair, article, fellow, goods), ひん (article, becoming poor, counter for meal courses, dignity, goods, living in poverty, poverty), ぶっけん (article, real rights), ことがら (affair, circumstance, matter), こと (ancient city, business, circumstances, covering up, experience, fact, former capital, glossing over, Koto, matter, reason), もの (object, person), じゅう (10, dwelling, living, ten, utensil). (various references) | |
Korean | 것 (things). (various references) | |
Lombard | roba (article, object). (various references) | |
Luganda | eky'omukisa (the unlucky thing). (various references) | |
Malay | benda (article, object). (various references) | |
Manx | red (article, item, matter, object), nhee (concern, fact, item, matter, object). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ting (article, object). (various references) | |
Occitan | objèct (object), causa. (various references) | |
Papiamen | opheto (article, object), kos (affair, article, business, business deal, case, matter, object), koroto (article, object). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | tinewey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingthay.(various references) | |
Polish | rzecz, przedmiot (article, object), obiekt (article, object). (various references) | |
Portuguese | coisa (affair, article, business, business deal, case, matter, object, shebang, stuff, wing), objeto (article, cockshot, fixture, goods, object, target), objecto (article, object), cousa, assunto (affair, article, business, business deal, case, concernment, dead set, full stop, material, matter, motif, object, palaver, point, proposition, question, shebang, subject, subject-matter, text, theme, topic). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | coisa. (various references) | |
Romanian | obiect (article, cause, implement, object, reason, subject), lucru (act, activity, article, belongings, business, cert, deed, employment, happening, implement, job, labor, labour, matter, object, occurrence, operation, predecessor, service, situation, things, traps, work, working). (various references) | |
Russian | вещь (article, concern, object, pair, shebang). (various references) | |
Scottish | rud (a thing, circumstance : rudeiginn, matter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stvar (affair, article, case, cause, matter, object, shebang, subject). (various references) | |
Somali | wax (anything, something). (various references) | |
Spanish | objeto (aim, end, exhibit, goal, object, objet, purpose, single, target), cosa (matter, object, thingummy), objecto (article, object). (various references) | |
Sranan | sani. (various references) | |
Swahili | kitu (article, object). (various references) | |
Swedish | tingest (object), ting (matter, object, session at court), sak (affair, article, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, item, job, matter, object, question, subject), persedel (article). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bagay (affair, business, business deal, case, matter), bágay (article, object). (various references) | |
Tahitian | mea (it is). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaratık (alien, creature, criter), xey, madde (article, clause, entry, item, material, matter, proviso, stuff, substance), konu (affair, argument, business, head, heading, issue, matter, point, Res, shebang, subject, subject matter, text, theme, topic), kimse (anybody, anyone, cad, no man, no one, nobody, one, person, somebody, someone, soul, Wallah, Wight), eşya (appointments, article, belongings, bulk, commodity, furniture, gear, goods, property, stuff, traps, ware), şey (affair, article, chose, concern, doing, doings, doodad, doohickey, lark, matter, object, stuff, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, well, whosit). ( |
