that there
The distant one
That there is a dialectal or informal demonstrative, emphatic where standard English would use simply "that": That there dog won't hunt.
Common in Southern American English and rural dialects, it adds pointing force—drawing attention to the specific item being indicated.
In written dialogue, it signals folksy or uneducated speech.
- hereIn this location
- over yonderAt a distance indicated
- thoseDistant plural indicator
- fixin'Intending to act
- yonderThat distant place
voila · what in tarnation · nearby · lo · y'all · behold · clearly · exactly · pointing · precisely · indicated · specified · reckon · ain't · demonstrative · see · particularly · farther
- dialect wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, thyself
- grammar debatesirregardless, ain't, split infinitive, singular they, could of