it

Betekenis (Engels)

Pron

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. (rare) A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
4. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
5. (derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
6. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
7. 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).
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. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
11. (uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
12. 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.
13. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
14. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.

Det

Its.

Noun

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.
3. (British) A game of tag.
4. (informal) A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
5. (informal) Sexual intercourse.
6. (informal) Sex appeal.
7. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
8. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).

Adj

Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.

Concepten

het

hij

👨

erheen

zij

👩

eraan

’t

daaraan

d’r

dat

haar

hem

'm

er

’m

ze

A

het op

daar ... aan

er ... aan

er ... heen

Synoniemen

he

👨

she

👩

her

him

that

this

they

his

its

them

that one

their

hers

himself

other

herself

tig

which

with him

yes

you

A

🅰️

at him

for him

this thing

dobby

that thing

? momoto [lll

3 sg.

third sg. inan. pronoun

another

tip you're it

at it

be

because

behoves

could

died

figure of speech

if

itself

la

others

since

tag

this one

those

Vertalingen

es

il

👨

ello

🇮🇹

él

👨

elle

👩

ella

👩

esso

🇮🇹

id

lo

ça

er

👨

le

lo

αυτό

sie

👩

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɪt/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: it

Verwant aan Engels: hit

Overgenomen van Oudengels: hit

Verwant aan Fries: it

Verwant aan Saterfries: et

Verwant aan Nederlands: het

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: it

Verwant aan Duits: es

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐌹𐍄𐌰

Verwant aan Latijn: cis

In summary

From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.

Zinnen

Where did it come from then ?

Waar kwam het vandaan?

It shall be done !

Het zal worden gedaan!

It was now near midnight .

Het was nu bijna middernacht.

It was likely named for a railroad official .

Het werd waarschijnlijk vernoemd naar een spoorwegfunctionaris.

He stripped it of everything worth moving , except scenery .

Hij ontdekte het van alles wat het waard is om te bewegen, behalve landschap.

It washed away tents and parts of the forest on the island .

Het waste tenten en delen van het bos op het eiland weg.