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a common mispelling of teh.
OMG THE AWESMOe!!!11

Feasibly one of the most difficult words in the english language to define plainly and simply, particularly without using it in the definition.
The word the is really hard to define.

1. a. Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things.
: the baby; the dress I wore.
Warden Samuel Norton : Do you enjoy working in the laundry?
Andy Dufresne: The country club will have his old time cards.
Red : The man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks.
Andy Dufresne: I find it decidedly *inconvenient* that the gun was never found.
Red : His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes.
Andy Dufresne: You remember the name of the town, don't you?

b. Used before a noun, and generally stressed, to emphasize one of a group or type as the most outstanding or prominent.
: considered Lake Shore Drive to be the neighborhood to live in these days.

c. Used to indicate uniqueness.
: the Prince of Wales; the moon.
Andy Dufresne : You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Warden Samuel Norton : I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible.

d. Used before nouns that designate natural phenomena or points of the compass.
: the weather; a wind from the south.

e. Used as the equivalent of a possessive adjective before names of some parts of the body.
: grab him by the neck; an infection of the hand.

f. Used before a noun specifying a field of endeavor.
: the law; the film industry; the stage.

g. Used before a proper name, as of a monument or ship.
: the Alamo; the Titanic.

h. Used before the plural form of a numeral denoting a specific decade of a century or of a life span.
: rural life in the Thirties.

i. Used before a singular noun indicating that the noun is generic.
: The wolf is an endangered species.

2. a. Used before an adjective extending it to signify a class and giving it the function of a noun.
: the rich; the dead; the homeless.

b. Used before an absolute adjective.
: the best we can offer.
Warden Samuel Norton : I have to say that's the most amazing story I've ever heard.
Andy Dufresne : Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

c. Used before a present participle, signifying the action in the abstract.
: the weaving of rugs.

d. Used before a noun with the force of per.
: cherries at $1.50 the box.

Paragraph seven, sentence three, word eight of the Geneva Convention.
Well, according to paragraph 7, sentence 3, word 8 of the Geneva Convention... "The"
Peter Griffin, Family Guy

French for tea.
Cor blimey gov'nor, strike-a-light. I dahn't arf fahncy a steam tug of the.

A word that comes before other words.
Jess: What are you doing this weekend?
Austin: I'm going to the mall.

The first, thirteenth, seventeenth and twenty-first word of this sentence and the second word for the acronym WTF (What the fuck?.
Chad: It turned out Perry was gay after all.
Tim: WTF? (What the fuck?)

the only, normal or obvious one of their kind ◆ the Mona Lisa ◆ the Nile ◆ the Queen ◆ What's the matter? ◆ The phone rang. ◆ I patted her on the back. ◆ How's the (= your) baby?
Andy Dufresne: That's where I want to live the rest of my life.
Andy Dufresne: Sir, he's telling the truth.
Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
Red: Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.

explaining which ◆ the house at the end of the street ◆ The people I met there were very friendly. ◆ It was the best day of my life. ◆ You're the third person to ask me that. ◆ Friday the thirteenth ◆ Alexander the Great
Red: and that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyway.
Andy Dufresne : The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow.