those

people or things that are not close to the speaker, or that the speaker and listener already know or have just mentioned

Those is the plural of that, standing alone for people or things farther away or already talked about. Directly before a noun, those is a determiner, a separate entry.

• Those are my parents over there.
• I don't remember most of those.
• Whose bags are those?
• Those were difficult years for the family.

Compare that (the singular of those); these (these points to people or things nearer); those (those directly before a noun: those books, compared with the pronoun use standing alone: those are mine)

far or knownused before a plural noun for people or things that are not close to the speaker, or that the speaker and listener already know or have just mentioned

Those is the plural of that: that year, those years. It points to people or things farther away, or already talked about.

• Those mountains look beautiful in the winter.
• I still think about those days often.
• Can you hand me those papers on the desk?
• Those plans never worked out in the end.

Compare that; these (these points to people or things nearer, the plural of this); those