-it

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "it"

Czech

Suffix

-it

  1. forms the infinitive of the 3rd class verbs.
  2. (masculine) -ite (used to form names of minerals and some rocks and fossils)

French

Suffix

-it

  1. Suffix forming the third-person singular present indicative of -ir verbs.
  2. Suffix forming the third-person singular past historic of -ir verbs.
  3. Suffix forming the third-person singular past historic of -re verbs.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iːt/
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Suffix

-it

  1. (masculine) -ite (used to form names of followers of a movement, Biblical descendants of a certain person, etc)
  2. (masculine) -ite (used to form names of minerals and some rocks and fossils)
  3. (chemistry, neuter) -ite (used to form names of salts and esters of acids whose name ends in -ous)

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -it

Greenlandic

Affix

-it (n-v?, truncative?)

  1. there is no [noun], has no [noun]

Antonyms

Derived terms

Greenlandic terms suffixed with -it

References

Affix

-it (v-v?, truncative?)

  1. Reverses the meaning.

Derived terms

Greenlandic terms suffixed with -it

References

Manx

Alternative forms

Suffix

-it

  1. Suffix forming the past participle of verbs.
  2. -ed, -ized

Derived terms

Manx terms suffixed with -it

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-it

  1. Form of the suffix -t used with odd-syllable stems.

Inflection

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Derived terms

Old Irish

Suffix

-it (suffixed pronoun)

  1. him
  2. it (object pronoun)

Usage notes

This suffix is used only after first-person singular forms in -(e)a, first-person plural forms in -mi, and 3rd person plural forms in -(a)it. After third-person singular forms, the suffix -i is used.

Derived terms

Old Irish terms suffixed with -it

See also

Old Irish affixed pronouns

See Appendix:Old Irish affixed pronouns for details on how these forms are used.
Note that the so-called “infixed” pronouns are technically prefixes, but they are never the first prefix in a verbal complex.

Person Infixed Suffixed
Class A Class B Class C
1 sing. m-L dom-L, dam-L -um
2 sing. t-L dot-L, dat-L, dut-L, dit-L -ut
3 sing. m. a-N, e-N d-N id-N, did-N, d-N -i, -it
3 sing. f. s-(N) da- -us
3 sing. n. a-L, e-L d-L id-L, did-L, d-L -i, -it
1 pl. n- don-, dun-, dan- -unn
2 pl. b- dob-, dub-, dab- -uib
3 pl. s-(N) da- -us
L means this form triggers lenition.
N means this form triggers nasalization (eclipsis)
(N) means this form triggers nasalization in some texts but not in others.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Suffix

-it

  1. Suffix used to form the supine tense of verbs belonging to the fourth conjugation (strong verbs); see also -t
Usage notes

The suffix is used with the same version of the stem as is the past participle.

Etymology 2

Suffix

-it

  1. (pathology) Suffix used to form nouns corresponding to diseases characterized by inflammation (similar to -itis in English)
    appendicit, bronkit, encefalit, gastrit, hepatit, laryngit, meningit, neurit, sinusit
  2. a (mineral) material with a certain origin or property, similar to English -ite
    bakelit, bauxit, dynamit, ebonit, eternit, grafit, malakit, masonit, nitrit
  3. a person from a certain place or a faith, similar to English -ite
    abderit, husit, israelit, jesuit, konvertit, kosmopolit, levit, malmöit, metropolit, muskovit, samarit, shiit, stachanovit, sunnit

Derived terms

Swedish terms suffixed with -it

References

Anagrams

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