ditt

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

ditt n

1. neuter singular of din

References

• “ditt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dit/

Pronoun

ditt n

1. neuter singular of din

References

• “ditt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Pronoun

ditt

1. neuter singular of din, your, yours

   Ditt hus är rött

   Your house [neuter gender] is red

   Note that röd (“red”) is also inflected for neuter.

   Huset är ditt, inte mitt

   The house is yours, not mine

   Note that the neuter gender of hus (“house”) is reflected in the definite form huset.

3. you (vocative determiner used before a singular neuter gender noun)

   Ditt jävla as!

   You fucking bastard [neuter gender]!

   Ditt svin!

   You asshole [swine, neuter gender – most animals are common gender]!

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person		nominative	oblique	possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Noun

ditt c

1. only used in ditt och datt (“this and that”)

Declension

Declension of ditt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ditt	ditts
	definite	ditten	dittens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• ditt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ditt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)