"Isso não ajudará você."

Translation: That will not help you.

[Dadinho]

Is "Isso" "this" or "that"? we need some consistency duolingo

[alezzzix]

Isto means this, isso and aquilo mean that, but in Brazil's spoken language people often use isto and isso interchangeably to say this, and aquilo to say that.

[SergioBitt1]

This (isto): the object is near the 1st and 2nd people
That (isso): the object is far from the 1st person and near the 2nd person
That (aquilo): the object is far from 1st and 2nd people

[lugosky]

It depends on the context. That's why they could be used interchangeably sometimes.

[mariisoouza]

Dadinho, "this" means isto or isso and "that" means aquilo or aquele

[mckara]

Why not "it"? These questions are becoming lessons in mind-reading rather than learning Portuguese?

[alezzzix]

I'm not completely sure of this, but every time I've seen isso translated as it is when isso is the object rather than the subject, maybe that's the pattern you are/were missing.

[ajchaves]

I have been wondering, because in some regions they don't use voce as much, can you replace voce with tu or ti at the end of a sentence? Ex. Isso nao ajudara tu or isso nao te ajudara or isso nao ajudara ti . Which of these are correct? (if any). Also do I need to conjugate ajudara to ajudaras?

[Davu]

The correct (and corrected - thanks Luís) version is "Isso não te ajudará". (The other options you suggested are either ugly or wrong.)

[Luis_Domingos]

*te ajudará. "Isso" is the subject here (if you can call it that), so the verb form says in the 3rd person regardless of changes to the indirect object.

[ArnoldDV]

How do I express the difference between 'this' and 'that' in portuguese?