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[edit] English

Most common English words: his « with « is « #13: it » for » as » had

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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English hit.

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  • itt (obsolete)

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it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive adjective and noun its)

  1. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a non-human entity, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.
    Put it over there.
    Take each day as it comes.
  2. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a human entity of unknown sex or gender.
    She took the baby and held it in her arms.
  3. Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
    It's me. John.
  4. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement.
    It is nearly 10 o’clock.
    It’s very cold today.
    It’s lonely without you.
  5. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object.
    It is easy to see how she would think that.
    I find it odd that you would say that.
    He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
See Wiktionary:English inflection for other personal pronouns.
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Derived terms
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English’s other subject and object pronouns
[edit] Translations
subject — inanimate thing
object
subject of impersonal statement
  • Dutch: het nl(nl)
  • Finnish: (not used)
  • French: il fr(fr)
  • German: es de(de)
  • Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
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[edit] Noun

Singular
it

Plural
it

it (plural it)

  1. The person or people who chase and try to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
    In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
  2. (British) the game of tag itself.
    Let's play it at breaktime.
  3. (British) IT (used by schoolchildren).
    What have we got next? Art then it.

[edit] Etymology 2

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it

  1. (language) Italian.
  2. Italy.
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[edit] Azeri

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.

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it (Cyrillic spelling ит)

  1. dog

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it (Cyrillic spelling ит)

  1. get lost (imperative)

[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.

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it

  1. dog

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  • Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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it

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of eō.

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.

[edit] Noun

it

  1. dog
  2. a word for aspersion

[edit] Usage notes

It's generally used in countryside when meant "dog". But if the dog isn't loved, it can be said "it" for it, too.

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it

  1. push (imperative)

[edit] Uzbek

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ɨt, *it

[edit] Noun

it

  1. dog

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[edit] Article

it n.

  1. the (the definite article that is placed before neuter nouns. Non-neuter (common gender) nouns take the article de).

[edit] Pronoun

it (personal pronoun)

  1. it: the third person singular, referring to something neutral, genderless.
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