WordCodex

it

See also: Variations of "it"

it - Translingual

Symbol

it

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.

it - English

Alternative forms

  • hit (dialectal)
  • i' (colloquial)
  • itt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: at (unstressed) (General American, General Australian)

Pronoun

it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive determiner and pronoun its)

  1. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
    • Take this book and put it on the shelf.
    • Take each day as it comes.
    • I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.
  2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
    • She took the baby and held it in her arms.
  3. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
  4. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
  5. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
    • It's me. John.
    • Is it her?
    • It is I, your king.
  6. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
    • It is nearly 10 o’clock.
    • It’s 10:45.
    • It’s very cold today.
    • It’s lonely without you.
  7. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
    1. Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
      • After all these years, she still has it.
    2. Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
  8. (uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
  9. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
    • It is easy to see how she would think that.
      (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
    • I find it odd that you would say that.
      (with the noun clause introduced by that)
    • It is hard seeing you so sick.
      (with the gerund seeing)
    • He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
      (with the noun clause introduced by that)
    • It is not clear if the report was true.
      (with the noun clause introduced by if)
  10. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
    • Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
    • That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
  11. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.

Usage notes

  • See English inflection, English pronouns and English third-person singular pronouns for other personal pronouns.
  • For quotations using this term, see it.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Afrikaans: dit (af)
  • Akan: ɛno
  • Albanian: ai (sq), ajo (sq)
  • Amharic: እሱ (ʾəsu)
  • Arabic: هُوَ‎ (ar) m (huwa), هِيَ‎ (ar) f (hiya)
  • Armenian: դա (hy) (da)
  • Azerbaijani: o (az)
  • Bashkir: ул (ul)
  • Belarusian: яно́ n (janó), гэ́та (be) n (héta)
  • Bengali: সে (bn) (śe)
  • Bouyei: deel
  • Bulgarian: той (bg) m (toj), тя (bg) f (tja), то (bg) n (to)
  • Burmese: သူ (my) (su)
  • Catalan: (please verify) el (ca) m, (please verify) la (ca) f, (usually not translated)
  • Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak
  • Chinese:
    • Literary: (not used)
    • Mandarin: 它 (zh) (tā), (classical) 之 (zh) (zhī), (this) 這／这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi), (that) 那 (zh) (nà, nèi), (used for animals, variant of 它) 牠／它 (zh) (tā)
  • Cornish: ev (kw) m, hi f
  • Czech: to (cs), ono (cs) n, on (cs) m, ona (cs) f
  • Danish: den (da) c det (da) n
  • Dutch: het (nl) (for neutral nouns), hij (nl) (for gendered nouns)
  • Dyirbal: not used in Dyirbal (Dyirbal has no third-person pronoun)
  • Erzya: сон (son)
  • Esperanto: ĝi (eo)
  • Estonian: see (et), too (et)
  • Faroese: tað n
  • Finnish: se (fi)
  • French: il (fr) m, elle (fr) f, ce (fr) n, ça (fr) n
  • Georgian: ის (ka) (is)
  • German: er (de) m, sie (de) f, es (de) n
  • Greek: το (el) (to), αυτό (el) (aftó) (sometimes not translated), τούτος (el) (toútos)
    • Ancient: (subject pronouns are usually omitted, or a demonstrative is used: medial, proximal, and distal demonstratives:) τοῦτο (toûto), τόδε (tóde), ἐκεῖνο (ekeîno); (Epic demonstratives:) τό (tó), ὅ (hó)
  • Greenlandic: una
  • Hawaiian: ia
  • Hebrew: זֶה‎ (he) (ze), זֹאת‎ (he) (zot)
  • Hindi: (he, she and it) वह (hi) (vah), यह (hi) (yah)
  • Hopi: pam
  • Hungarian: az (hu), ez (hu)
  • Icelandic: það (is)
  • Ido: ol (io), olu (io)
  • Ingrian: hää
  • Interlingua: lo (ia), illo (ia)
  • Irish: sé (ga) m (conjunctive), é m (disjunctive), sí f (conjunctive), í f (disjunctive), (predicate of copula) ea
    • Old Irish: ed
  • Italian: esso (it), essa (it), lo (it), la (it)
  • Japanese: これ (ja) (kore), それ (ja) (sore), あれ (ja) (are)
  • Kannada: (this thing) ಇದು (kn) (idu), (that thing) ಅದು (kn) (adu)
  • Karakhanid: اُلْ‎ (ol)
  • Kazakh: ол (kk) (ol)
  • Khmer: វា (km) (viə)
  • Korean: 이것 (ko) (igeot), 그것 (ko) (geugeot), 저것 (ko) (jeogeot)
  • Kurdish:
    • Northern Kurdish: ew (ku) m or f
  • Kyrgyz: ал (ky) (al)
  • Lao: ມັນ (man)
  • Latin: id (la)
  • Latvian: tas (lv) m, tā (lv) f
  • Lithuanian: jis (lt)
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: et (nds), het (nds) (rare)
    • Middle Low German: it n, et n
  • Macedonian: тоа (mk) n (toa)
  • Malay: ia
  • Maltese: hu (mt) m, hi (mt) f
  • Mbyá Guaraní: ha'e
  • Moksha: сон (son)
  • Mongolian: тэр (mn) (ter), уун (mn) (uun), туун (tuun), энэ (mn) (ene)
  • Motu: ia
  • Mòcheno: er m, si f, s n
  • Northern Sami: son
  • Norwegian: det (no)
  • Old Church Slavonic: оно (ono)
  • Old East Slavic: оно n (ono)
  • Old English: hit (ang), þæt (ang)
  • Pashto: هغه‎ (ps) (hağë), ده‎ (ps) (də)
  • Persian: او‎ (fa) (u), این‎ (fa) (in)
  • Pipil: yaja, yaha
  • Pitjantjatjara: (here) ngaa, (there) pala, (over there) nyara, (not visible) palunya
  • Polish: to (pl) n
  • Portuguese: ele (pt) m, ela (pt) f, isso (pt) n (often not translated)
  • Rapa Nui: ia
  • Romanian: el (ro)
  • Russian: он (ru) (on), она́ (ru) (oná), оно́ (ru) (onó), э́то (ru) (éto)
  • Rusyn: оно́ (onó)
  • Sardinian: issu
  • Scottish Gaelic: e m (non-emphatic), esan m (emphatic), i f (non-emphatic), ise f (emphatic)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
  • Sicilian: issu (scn)
  • Sinhalese: එයා (eyā), (of animals) ඌ (si) (ū), ඒක (ēka)
  • Slovak: ono, to (sk)
  • Slovene: ôno
  • Sorbian:
  • Spanish: ello (es), él (es), ella (es), eso (es), lo (es) (often not translated)
  • Swedish: den (sv) c, det (sv) n
  • Tajik: ӯ (tg) (ü), ин (tg) (in)
  • Taos: ą́wąną
  • Tatar: ул (tt) (ul)
  • Thai: มัน (th) (man)
  • Tigrinya: ንሱ (ti) (nəsu)
  • Turkish: o (tr)
  • Turkmen: ol
  • Ukrainian: воно́ (uk) n (vonó), це (uk) (ce)
  • Urdu: وہ‎ (vah), یہ‎ (yah)
  • Uyghur: ئۇ‎ (ug) (u)
  • Uzbek: u (uz)
  • Vietnamese: nó (vi)
  • Volapük: on (vo)
  • Welsh: ef m, hi f
  • West Frisian: it (fy)
  • White Hmong: nws
  • Wolof: moom (wo)
  • Yiddish: עס‎ (es)
  • Yámana: kitu
  • Zazaki: yin, in
  • Zhuang: de (also he or she)
  • Zulu: yena class 1, wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11
  • ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ãh, (emphatic) ãhʻã, ìh
  • Afrikaans: dit (af)
  • Arabic: ـهُ‎ (ar) (-hu)
  • Belizean Creole: ahn
  • Bulgarian: него (bg) (nego), го (bg) m or n (go) (accusative case), на него (na nego), нему (bg) (nemu), му (bg) m or n (mu) (dative case), нея (bg) (neja), я (bg) f (ja) (accusative case), на нея (na neja), ней (bg) (nej), ѝ (bg) f (ì) (dative case)
  • Burmese: သူ (my) (su)
  • Chinese:
    • Literary: 之 (zhī), 伊 (yī), 渠 (qú)
    • Mandarin: 這／这 (zh) (zhè), 那 (zh) (nà, nèi), 它 (zh) (tā), 之 (zh) (zhī)
  • Cornish: 'n m, 's f
  • Czech: toho (cs), tomu (cs), to (cs)
  • Dutch: het (nl), er (nl)
  • Esperanto: ĝin (eo)
  • Finnish: sen (fi) (in active clauses, accusative), sitä (fi) (in active clauses, partitive), se (fi) (in passive clauses, accusative), sitä (fi) (in passive clauses, partitive)
  • French: le (fr) m, la (fr) f, ça (fr)
  • German: es (de)
  • Greek: το (el) (to)
  • Hebrew: אותו‎ (he) m (otó), אותה‎ f (otá)
  • Hungarian: azt (hu), ezt (hu)
  • Ido: ol (io), olu (io)
  • Ingrian: hänen (accusative), häntä (partitive)
  • Irish: é m, í f
  • Italian: lo (it)
  • Japanese: それ (ja) (soré)
  • Korean: 그것 (ko) (geugeot)
  • Kurdish:
    • Northern Kurdish: wî (ku) m, wê (ku) f
  • Lao: ມັນ (man)
  • Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
  • Macedonian: го (mk) (go) (short form), него (mk) (nego) (long form)
  • Mongolian: үүнийг (üüniig)
  • Norwegian: den (no)
  • Old English: hit (ang), þæt (ang)
  • Persian: او را‎ (u râ)
  • Pipil: ki-, k-
  • Portuguese: o (pt) m, a (pt) f
  • Russian: его́ (ru) m or n (jevó) (genitive case), ему́ (ru) m or n (jemú) (dative case), его́ (ru) m or n (jevó) (accusative case), им (ru) m or n (im) (instrumental case), нём (ru) m or n (njom) (prepositional case)
    • её (ru) f (jejó) (genitive case), ей (ru) f (jej) (dative case), её (ru) f (jejó) (accusative case), е́ю (ru) (jéju) / ей (ru) f (jej) (instrumental case), ней (ru) f (nej) (prepositional case)
  • Slovak: to (sk)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jo
  • Spanish: le (es), la (es), lo (es), ello (es), eso (es)
  • Swedish: den (sv) c, det (sv) n
  • Thai: มัน (th) (man)
  • West Frisian: it (fy)
  • White Hmong: nws
  • Wolof: ko
  • Zulu: yena class 1, wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11, bona class 14, khona class 15/17
  • ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ãh, (emphatic) ãhʻã, ìh
  • Belarusian: гэ́та (be) (héta)
  • Catalan: not used in Catalan
  • Dutch: het (nl)
  • Faroese: tað n
  • Finnish: not used in Finnish
  • French: ce (fr)
  • German: es (de)
  • Greek: Ancient: (third person verb without subject)
  • Hebrew: זה‎ (he) m (ze)
  • Irish: sé (ga)
  • Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
  • Portuguese: not used in Portuguese
  • Russian: э́то (ru) (éto)
  • Spanish: not used in Spanish
  • Swedish: det (sv)
  • Ukrainian: це (uk) (ce)
  • Zulu: khona class 17
  • Chinese:
    • Literary: not used in Literary Chinese
  • Dutch: het (nl), ze (nl), hem (nl)
  • French: il (fr)
  • Galician: el (gl)
  • German: es (de) n
  • Greek: Ancient: (third person verb without subject)
  • Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: et (nds), het (nds) (rare)
  • Spanish: not used in Spanish
  • Swedish: det (sv) n
  • Dutch: het (nl)
  • French: ce (fr), ça (fr), cela (fr)
  • Galician: el (gl)
  • Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
  • Spanish: not used in Spanish

Determiner

it

  1. (obsolete) Its.

Noun

it (plural its)

  1. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
  2. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
    • In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
  3. (Britain, uncountable) The game of tag.
    • Let's play it at breaktime.
  4. Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”)
  5. Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”)

Translations

Adjective

it (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.

Anagrams

it - Azerbaijani

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itlər)

  1. dog

Declension

    Declension of it
    Possessive forms of it

Derived terms

  • itbaz (“caninophile”)

it - Charrua

Noun

it

  1. fire

it - Chuukese

Noun

it

  1. name

it - Crimean Tatar

Noun

it

  1. dog

Synonyms

it - Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪt̪ˠ/

Contraction

it (triggers lenition)

  1. (Munster) Contraction of i do (“in your”).
    • Buail it phóca é.
      • Put it in your pocket.
Basic form Contracted with Copular forms
an (“the sg”)na (“the pl”)mo (“my”)do (“your”)a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)ár (“our”)ar (“which (past)”)(before consonant)(present/future before vowel)(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)dende na desna*de mo dem*de do ded*, det*dá dárdardarbdarbh
do (“to, for”)dondo na dosna*do mo dom*do do dod*, dot*dá dárdardarbdarbh
faoi (“under, about”)faoinfaoi nafaoi mofaoi dofaoinafaoinár faoinarfaoinarbfaoinarbh
i (“in”)sa, sansnai mo im*i do id*, it*inainár inarinarbinarbh
le (“with”)leis anleis nale mo lem*le do led*, let*lenalenár lenarlenarblenarbh
ó (“from, since”)ónó na ósna*ó mo óm*ó do ód*, ót*ónaónár ónarónarbónarbh
trí (“through”)tríd antrí natrí motrí dotrínatrínár trínartrínarbtrínarbh
*Dialectal.

it - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /it/, [ɪt̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /it/, [it̪]

Verb

it

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of eō

it - Latvian

Particle

it

  1. used to assign accentuation to expression
    • it sevišķi ― especially
    • it nekas ― nothing at all
    • it nekur ― nowhere at all
    • it nemaz ― not at all
    • it kā ― as if

it - Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

  1. Alternative form of het

it - Middle English

Pronoun

it

  1. Alternative form of hit (“it”)

Determiner

it

  1. Alternative form of hit (“it”)

it - Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪt/, /ət/

Pronoun

it

  1. (third person singular neuter nominative) it
  2. (third person singular neuter accusative) it

Declension

nominative accusative dative genitive
1st person singular ik (ek)mî (mê, mik, mek)mîn (mîner)
2nd person singular dûdî (dê, dik, dek)dîn (dîner)
3rd person singular
m hê (hî, hie)ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn)ēme, em (ȫme, en)sîn (sîner)
n it (et)
f sê (sî, sie, sü̂)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)
1st person plural wî (wê, wie)uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik)unser (ûser)
2nd person plural gî (jê, î)jû (jûwe, û, jük, gik)jûwer (ûwer)
3rd person plural sê (sî, sie)em, öm, jüm (en, ēnen, ȫnen)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

Descendants

  • Low German: et, it
  • Plautdietsch: et

it - Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of it – see 一 (“one; each; every; etc.”). (This character, it, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 一.)

it - Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈih(t)/

Verb

it

  1. second-person singular present of ii

it - Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • (second-person singular form) at

Pronunciation

  • (second-person singular form) IPA: /it/
  • (third-person plural form) IPA: /id/

Verb

it

  1. inflection of is:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative

it - Old Norse

Alternative forms

Pronoun

it

  1. (personal) second-person dual pronoun; you two

Declension

Descendants

The Western descendants derive from þit, due to influence of the 2nd plural ending -ð. Compare þér (“you (plural)”).

it - Old Saxon

Pronoun

it n

  1. it

Declension

Personal pronouns
Singular 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative ik thū hē siu it
Accusative mī, me, mik thī, thik ina sia
Dative mī thī imu iru it
Genitive mīn thīn is ira is
Dual 1. 2. - - -
Nominative wit git - - -
Accusative unk ink - - -
Dative
Genitive unkero, unka

inker, inka

 - - -
Plural 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative wī, we gī, ge sia sia siu
Accusative ūs, unsik eu, iu, iuu
Dative ūs im
Genitive ūser euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera iro

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: it
    • Low German: et, it
    • Plautdietsch: et

it - Piedmontese

Pronoun

it

  1. you (singular)

it - Sathmar Swabian

Adverb

it

  1. not

it - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈit]

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itler)

  1. (often derogatory) dog
  2. (derogatory) scoundrel, detestable person, cur

Usage notes

Not historically derogatory, and still used as the primary term for "dog" in the countryside. Usually, if a dog is a stray or feral, it can be referred to as "it" as well. The more usual word is köpek, which is also pejorative and derogatory when used for a person.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative it
Definite accusative iti

Verb

it

  1. second-person singular imperative of itmek

it - Turkmen

Noun

it (definite accusative idi, plural itler)

  1. dog

Declension

singular plural
nominative it itler
accusative iti itleri
genitive itiň itleriň
dative ite itlere
locative itde itlerde
ablative itden itlerden

it - Uzbek

Noun

it (plural itlar)

  1. dog

Declension

singular plural
nominative it itlar
genitive itning itlarning
dative itga itlarga
definite accusative itni itlarni
locative itda itlarda
ablative itdan itlardan
my singular plural
nominative itim itlarim
genitive itimning itlarimning
dative itimga itlarimga
definite accusative itimni itlarimni
locative itimda itlarimda
ablative itimdan itlarimdan
your singular plural
nominative iting itlaring
genitive itingning itlaringning
dative itingga itlaringga
definite accusative itingni itlaringni
locative itingda itlaringda
ablative itingdan itlaringdan
her/his/its singular plural
nominative iti itlari
genitive itining itlarining
dative itiga itlariga
definite accusative itini itlarini
locative itida itlarida
ablative itidan itlaridan
our singular plural
nominative itimiz itlarimiz
genitive itimizning itlarimizning
dative itimizga itlarimizga
definite accusative itimizni itlarimizni
locative itimizda itlarimizda
ablative itimizdan itlarimizdan
your singular plural
nominative itingiz itlaringiz
genitive itingizning itlaringizning
dative itingizga itlaringizga
definite accusative itingizni itlaringizni
locative itingizda itlaringizda
ablative itingizdan itlaringizdan
their singular plural
nominative iti itlari
genitive itining itlarining
dative itiga itlariga
definite accusative itini itlarini
locative itida itlarida
ablative itidan itlaridan

it - Volapük

Determiner

it

  1. (with a personal pronoun) self; myself; yourself; himself; herself; itself; ourselves; themselves; emphasises the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase

it - Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

  1. (literary) second-person singular of i

it - West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪt/
  • (unstressed) IPA: /(ə)t/

Pronoun

it

  1. it (third-person singular neuter pronoun)

Inflection

Number Person Nominative Objective Possessive
Normal Reflexive Determiner Pronoun
Singular First ik my mysels myn mines
Second Informal do/dû1 dy dysels dyn dines
Formal jo jo josels jo jowes
Third Masculine hy him himsels syn sines
Feminine sy/hja1 har harsels har harres
Neuter it it himsels syn sines
Plural First wy ús ússels ús uzes
Second jim(me) jim(me) jimsels/jinsels jim(me) jimmes
Third sy/hja1 har(ren) harsels har(ren) harres
1. Now mostly archaic and unused

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /(ə)t/

Determiner

it

  1. neuter singular of de

it - Yola

Alternative forms

Pronoun

it

  1. it

Derived terms

it - Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ʔit˥/
  • Tone numbers: it7
  • Hyphenation: it

Numeral

it (1957–1982 spelling it)

  1. one
    • daih'it
      • first
    • song bak it
      • two hundred and ten
    • it cien
      • one thousand

Usage notes

Used with ngeih rather than song.

Synonyms

Meaning and Definition of it
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