it

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

es

het

il

👨

ello

🇮🇹

él

👨

elle

👩

ella

👩

esso

🇮🇹

id

lo

hij

👨

ça

er

👨

αυτό

le

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: it

Cognate with English: hit

Inherited from Old English: hit

Cognate with Western Frisian: it

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: et

Cognate with Dutch: het

Cognate with Low German: it

Cognate with German: es

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌹𐍄𐌰

Cognate with Latin: 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.

Sentences

Where did it come from then ?

It shall be done !

It was now near midnight .

She comes by it naturally .

He stripped it of everything worth moving , except scenery .

I still can't understand it though .