Dies

RexV

RexV

I have just seen this sentence “Ist dies der Computer der Zukunft”.
I have never seen the word “dies” before but is it an alternative to das?
 
sfpugh

sfpugh

According to Collins easy learning german grammar (which I find useful):

Dies is often used to replace to replace the nominative and accusative cases of  diese and dieses when it is used as a pronoun.

You can look up dieser, which is the masculine nominative form of the above, in the Leo dictionary.
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/dieser
 

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