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Demonstratives are adjectives and pronouns that indicate which objects a sentence is referring to. English has four demonstratives: 'this', 'that', 'these', and 'those'.
Latin had several sets of demonstratives, including:
The second set, 'ille', etc., meaning 'that', developed into the definite articles in several Romance languages, such as 'el', 'la', 'los', 'las' in Spanish, and 'le', 'la', 'les' in French.
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