its

Equivalent to it + -s (possessive marker). From the earlier form it's (it + -'s), which is now considered nonstandard. Began to displace his as the possessive of the neuter pronoun in the Middle English period; had fully displaced it by the 1700s.

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Nşh

it

1. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
3. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
4. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
5. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
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).
7. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
8. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
9. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
10. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
11. 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.
12. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
13. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.