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Etymology

Clipping of English Italian or Italian italiano.

Symbol

it

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Italian terms

English

Alternative forms

• hit (dialectal)
• i' (colloquial)
• itt (obsolete)
• 't (archaic or pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

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 (“here; here”).

Cognates

Cognate with Yola it, t', yt (“it”), North Frisian at, et, 't (“it”), Saterland Frisian et (“it”), West Frisian it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Luxembourgish hatt (“her, it, she”), Elfdalian eð (“it”); also Primitive Irish ᚕᚑᚔ (koi, “here”), Latin cis (“short of; before”), hic (“this”), Greek εκείνος (ekeínos, “that; those”). Compare Cimbrian es, is, 's, 'z (“it”), German es, 's (“it, there”), Mòcheno and Vilamovian s (“it”), Yiddish עס (es, “it”), Faroese ið (“that, which, who”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), which instead descends from Proto-Germanic *it (“it”). More at he.

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Australia) IPA^(key): /ɪt/ enPR: ĭt

  • Audio (UK):

    (file)

  • Audio (US):

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  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
• (unstressed)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪt/, [ɪ̈t], [ɪt]
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ət/, [ɪ̈t], [ɪ̈ʔ], enPR: ət
  • (Northwestern US) IPA^(key): [ɪʔ]
  • (Australia) IPA^(key): /ət/
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophone: at (unstressed) (General American, General Australian)

Pronoun

it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive determiner and pronoun its or (obsolete) his, plural subjective they, plural objective case them)

1. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

   Take this book and put it on the shelf.

   Take each day as it comes.

   I found a poor little cat. It seems to be half starving.

   • 2001 December 31, geek_girl, “it is 10:23am and I am really drunk”, in alt.angst‎^[1] (Usenet):

     > I bet you Sarah Jane talks to her dog on a daily basis. […]
     > I have a
     > suspicion she allows it [her dog] to sleep in her bed with her.
     >
     She is not an "it" she's a "her".

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     It is not a pen. It is a book.

   • 2018 August 6, “Brief Introduction of Nansi”, in Nansi District Office, Tainan City‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:

     The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.

   1. Used to refer to a human generically, or humans collectively as a species.
      • 2000 March 11, Gunner, “A third of all murders unsolved.”, in misc.survivalism‎^[3] (Usenet):

        To kill a homo sapiens, in any of its life stages, is still killing a homo sapiens, no matter if it[']s sentient or not.

      • 2000 June 19, Blade, “If Humans Created God ...”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic‎^[4] (Usenet):

        In this way from a single cell, a human will construct itself so long as raw materials are available such as amino acids, nucleotides, carbohydrates and such. It takes around 18 years to get the finished product and around 9 months before the product can autonomously roam around, but still it builds itself without thought at every step.

      • 2002 June 18, JohnR, “God's atrocities - part 2”, in ont.general‎^[5] (Usenet):

        This is not true because humanity is limited by what it is. There are some things that can't be known.

      • 2016 April 2, Nicodemus, “[OT [off-topic]]T^[sic] what happens to a human when it realizes its place on planet earth”, in alt.comp.freeware‎^[6] (Usenet)
   2. (derogatory, offensive) Used dehumanizingly to refer to a person.
      • 2002 July 9, Mark Shippey, “The idiot still making a fool out of itself?”, in alt.alien.visitors‎^[7] (Usenet):

        My killfile has just about 100% obliterated the posts from the Erols goon. A few get through, but I'll bet the idiot is still sitting there spamming away and making a total fool out of itself. It has to, it has no other existence other than groveling for attention on Usenet. […] Is it safe yet to release the erols domain from the killfile, or is IT still puking its putrid crap all over the groups in large amounts?

      • 2005 February 3, Dr.Reality, “Re: alt.abuse.offender.recovery and http://health.groups.yahoo.com/gr”, in alt.rasap‎^[8] (Usenet):

        There is no crime in telling a pedophile that it should kill itself.

      • 2008 February 27, Steve Firth, “free FTP recommendation?”, in uk.misc‎^[9] (Usenet):

        But I can guarantee that the chav in the seat next to me will order the full load of scratch cards, vomitburger and "it's not Coca-Cola but it's just like it, honest" and will then poke all of it (including scratchcard) into its face then announce that it feels sick.

2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.

   She took the baby and held it in her arms.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter IV, in Jane Eyre:

     A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.

   • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White‎^[10]:

     I could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne's early days […] "There was nobody else, sir, to take the little helpless creature in hand," replied Mrs. Clements. "The wicked mother seemed to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My heart was heavy for the child, and I made the offer to bring it up as tenderly as if it was my own."
     "Did Anne remain entirely under your care from that time?"
     "Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims and fancies about it at times, and used now and then to lay claim to the child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up.

   • 2005, Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief, part 10:

     The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.

3. (rare) A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, chapter 5:

     All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part.

   • 1959, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Ordeal by Innocence:

     She had never seen that each human being was different, would react differently, had its own peculiar idiosyncrasies.

4. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
   • 1890, George Manville Fenn, Black Blood:

     " […] It's my belief that you don't know your own mind."
     "I don't, dear," said Hulda, nestling to him.
     "Why, what a puss it is!" cried Sir Philip, kissing her tenderly.

   • 1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl

     She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”

   • 1905, The Harvard Monthly, volumes 39-40, page 183:

     WILLIAM: You don't like me better?
     CLARA: Indeed I do.
     WILLIAM (laughing): Well, what a dear girl it is.
     CLARA (flinging her arms around his neck with suddenly disclosed passion): Oh, I do love you!

5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
   • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"

   • 1993, Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework, pages 72–73:

     "Oh, don't be silly. I am neither male nor female. I'm a farfel." […] "It. Refer to me as an it."
     "That seems pretty rude," I said nervously.
     "Not as rude as calling me a he or a she," it said.

   • 2024 January 16, Matteo Garofalo, “Singular Purpose: Calculating the Degree of Ethno-Religious Over-representation in the USNo-Fly List”, in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy:

     […] Crimew has expressed on its website a desire to be referred to by ‘it’ pronouns (Crimew 2021), so this article will interchangeably refer to it by its preferred terms as either ‘Maia Arson Crimew’ or ‘it’.
     Crimew is a well-known figure among hacking and cybersecurity circles. It has either taken credit for or been attributed to hacks from several major multinational corporations, including […]

   • 2026 April 17, Noah Shachtman, Robert Silverman, quoting John Eversole, “The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine”, in Wired‎^[11]:

     According to the lawsuit, he showed Richards' picture in several weekly meetings, misgendering her, and telling employees to watch out for "him or it or whatever it is."

6. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

   It's me, John.

   Somebody wanted a drink, didn't they? Who was it?

   It is I, your king.

   Is that over there who I think it is?

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).

   It is nearly 10 o’clock.

   It’s 10:45.

   It’s very cold today.

   It’s lonely here without you.

   It seems so.

   It blew all night.

8. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.

   rough it

   live it up

   stick it out

   1. Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.

      After all these years, she still has it.

      • 2021, Seth Wickersham, It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, Liveright Publishing, →ISBN:

        Later that night, a friend told Brady, “Still got it.” “Never lost it,” he replied. THAT WAS MOSTLY TRUE. But the 2013 season ended with the Patriots coaches wondering whether Brady's skills were in a subtle but irrevocable decline […]

   2. Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.

      I caught them doing it.

      Are you getting it regularly?

      • 1968, Dear Doctor Hip Pocrates; advice your family doctor never gave you, page 5:

        Is man really the only animal who does "it" face to face?

      • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 10:

        The great advantage of English public school life lies of course in the quality of tutelage it provides. Adrian had received a decent and broad English education in the area of his loins. […] He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally – focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented.

9. (uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
   • 1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Bathurst‎^[12]:

     'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street

   • 1927, Dorothy Parker, “Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations”, in The New Yorker, published 26 November 1927; republished in Brendan Gill, editor, The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, 1976, pages 464-468:

     And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.

10. 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.

    It’s not worth talking to you.

    It is easy to see how she would think that.

    (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)

    It was felt that I'd be the right man for the job.

    I find it odd that you would say that.

    (with the noun clause introduced by that)

    It is hard seeing you so sick.

    (with the gerund seeing)

    He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.

    (with the noun clause introduced by that)

    It is not clear if the report was true.

    (with the noun clause introduced by if)

    She made it clear what she expected by the weekend, which made it a problem to juggle her and other customers' jobs at the same time.

    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

      "I know now!" said I. "I have seen this in your face a long while."
      "No; have you really, my dear?" said he. "What a Dame Durden it is to read a face!"

11. All or the end; something after which there is no more.

    Are there more students in this class, or is this it?

    That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.

    Well, looks like this is it. We're all going to die.

12. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
    • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2:

      In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it [= it which] wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].

Usage notes

• It can be used in a derogatory manner to refer to a transgender or non-binary person, but some non-binary people choose to use it as a personal pronoun, in which case it is not derogatory.
• Some people consider it offensive when used to refer to babies, children, or animals (especially pets).
• See Wiktionary:English inflection, Appendix:English pronouns and Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for other personal pronouns.
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:it.

Derived terms

• aliensdidit
• anticipatory it
• any way one slices it
• Bumpit
• buy it
• damnit
• do it
• dummy it
• evolutiondidit
• flooddidit
• for it
• FSMdidit
• go at it
• goddidit
• goshdangit
• goshdarnit
• it girl
• it is said
• itness
• keep it real
• know-it-all
• lookit
• move it
• preparatory it
• Satandidit
• stick-at-itiveness
• that's it
• tiswas
• watch it
• whatchacallit

Translations

subject — inanimate thing — see also that

• Afrikaans: dit (af)
• Akan: ɛno
• Albanian: ai (sq), ajo (sq)
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: ол (ol)

• Amharic: እሱ (ʾəsu)
• Arabic: هُوَ (ar) m (huwa), هِيَ (ar) f (hiya)
• Armenian: դա (hy) (da)
• Azerbaijani: o (az)
• Bashkir: ул (ol)
• Belarusian: яно́ n (janó), гэ́та (be) n (héta)
• Bengali: সে (bn) (śe)
• Bouyei: deel
• Bulgarian: той (bg) m (toj), тя (bg) f (tja), то (bg) n (to)
• Burmese: သူ (my) (su)
• Carpathian Rusyn: оно́ (onó)
• Catalan: ell (ca) m, ella (ca) f, allò (ca) n, això (ca) n (usually not translated)
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: (not used)

  Mandarin: 它 (zh) (tā), (classical) 之 (zh) (zhī), (this) 這 / 这 (zh) (zhè, zhèi), (that) 那 (zh) (nà, nèi), (used for animals, variant of 它) 牠 / 它 (zh) (tā)

• Cornish: ev (kw) m, hi f
• Czech: to (cs), ono (cs) n, on (cs) m, ona (cs) f
• Danish: den (da) c det (da) n
• Dutch: het (nl) (for neutral nouns), hij (nl) (for gendered nouns)
• Dyirbal: not used in Dyirbal (Dyirbal has no third-person pronoun)
• Erzya: сон (son), те (te)
• Esperanto: ĝi (eo)
• Estonian: see (et), too (et)
• Faroese: tað n
• Finnish: se (fi)
• French: il (fr) m, elle (fr) f, ce (fr) n, ça (fr) n
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: it (fy)

• Georgian: ის (ka) (is)
• German: er (de) m, sie (de) f, es (de) n
• Greek: το (el) (to), αυτό (el) (aftó) (sometimes not translated), τούτος (el) (toútos)

  Ancient Greek: (subject pronouns are usually omitted, or a demonstrative is used: medial, proximal, and distal demonstratives:) τοῦτο (toûto), τόδε (tóde), ἐκεῖνο (ekeîno); (Epic demonstratives:) τό (tó), ὅ (hó)

• Greenlandic: una
• Guarani:

  Mbya Guarani: ha'e

• Guianese Creole: i
• Hawaiian: ia
• Hebrew: זֶה (he) (ze), זֹאת (he) (zot)
• Hindi: (he, she and it) वह (hi) (vah), यह (hi) (yah)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: nws

• Hopi: pam
• Hungarian: az (hu), ez (hu)
• Icelandic: það (is)
• Ido: ol (io), olu (io)
• Ingrian: hää
• Interlingua: lo (ia), illo (ia)
• Irish: sé (ga) m (conjunctive), é m (disjunctive), sí f (conjunctive), í f (disjunctive), (predicate of copula) ea

  Old Irish: ed

• Italian: esso (it), essa (it), lo (it), la (it)
• Jamaican Creole: it, hit
• Japanese: これ (ja) (kore), それ (ja) (sore), あれ (ja) (are)
• Judeo-Italian: אֵיסוֹ (ʾeso /⁠esso⁠/), אֵיסַה (ʾesah /⁠essa⁠/)
• Kannada: (this thing) ಇದು (kn) (idu), (that thing) ಅದು (kn) (adu)
• Karakhanid: اُلْ (ol)
• Kazakh: ол (kk) (ol)
• Khmer: វា (km) (viə)
• Korean: 이것 (ko) (igeot), 그것 (ko) (geugeot), 저것 (ko) (jeogeot)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ew (ku) m or f

• Kyrgyz: ал (ky) (al)
• Lao: ມັນ (man)
• Latin: id (la)
• Latvian: tas (lv) m, tā (lv) f
• Linngithigh: lu
• Lithuanian: jis (lt)
• Low German:

  German Low German: et (nds), het (nds) (rare)

  Middle Low German: it n, et n

• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: тоа (mk) n (toa)
• Malay: ia (ms)
• Maltese: hu (mt) m, hi (mt) f
• Miwok:

  Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak

• Mòcheno: er m, si f, s n
• Moksha: сон (son)
• Mongolian: тэр (mn) (ter), уун (mn) (uun), туун (tuun), энэ (mn) (ene)
• Motu: ia
• Norwegian: det (no)
• Old Church Slavonic: оно (ono)
• Old East Slavic: оно n (ono)
• Old English: hit (ang), þæt (ang)
• Pashto: هغه (ps) (hağë), ده (ps) (də)
• Persian: او (fa) (u), این (fa) (in)
• Pipil: yaja, yaha
• Pitjantjatjara: (here) ngaa, (there) pala, (over there) nyara, (not visible) palunya
• Polish: to (pl) n
• Portuguese: ele (pt) m, ela (pt) f, isso (pt) n (often not translated)
• Rapa Nui: ia
• Romanian: el (ro)
• Russian: он (ru) (on), она́ (ru) (oná), оно́ (ru) (onó), э́то (ru) (éto)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: son

• Sardinian: issu
• Scottish Gaelic: e m (non-emphatic), esan m (emphatic), i f (non-emphatic), ise f (emphatic)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оно (sh) n

  Latin: ono (sh) n

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: issu (scn)
• Sinhalese: එයා (eyā), (of animals) ඌ (si) (ū), ඒක (ēka)
• Slovak: ono, to (sk)
• Slovene: ôno
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wóno

• Spanish: usually not translated into Spanish, ello (es) n
• Swedish: den (sv) c, det (sv) n
• Tajik: ӯ (tg) (ü), ин (tg) (in)
• Taos: ą́wąną
• Tatar: ул (tt) (ul)
• Thai: มัน (th) (man)
• Tigrinya: ንሱ (ti) (nəsu)
• Tooro: gwo class 3, lyo class 5, kyo class 7, yo class 9, rwo class 11, ko class 12, bwo class 14, kwo class 15, ho class 16
• Turkish: o (tr)
• Turkmen: ol
• Ukrainian: воно́ (uk) n (vonó), це (uk) (ce)
• Urdu: وہ (vah), یہ (yah)
• Uyghur: ئۇ (ug) (u)
• Uzbek: u (uz)
• Vietnamese: nó (vi)
• Volapük: on (vo)
• Welsh: ef m, hi f
• Wolof: moom (wo)
• Yámana: kitu
• Yiddish: עס (es)
• Zazaki: yin, in
• Zhuang: de (also he or she)
• Zulu: yena class 1, wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11
• ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ãh, (emphatic) ãhʻã, ìh

object — see also that

• Afrikaans: dit (af)
• Arabic: ـهُ (ar) (-hu)
• Belizean Creole: ahn
• Bulgarian: не́го (bg) m or n (négo), го (bg) m or n (go) (accusative case), на не́го (na négo), нему (bg) (nemu), му (bg) m or n (mu) (dative case), нея (bg) (neja), я (bg) f (ja) (accusative case), на нея (na neja), ней (bg) (nej), ѝ (bg) f (ì) (dative case)
• Burmese: သူ (my) (su)
• Catalan: ho (ca) n, lo (ca) m, la (ca) f, allò (ca) n, això (ca) n
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 之 (zhī), 伊 (yī), 渠 (qú)

  Mandarin: 這 / 这 (zh) (zhè), 那 (zh) (nà, nèi), 它 (zh) (tā), 之 (zh) (zhī)

• Cornish: 'n m, 's f
• Czech: toho (cs), tomu (cs), to (cs)
• Dutch: het (nl), er (nl)
• Esperanto: ĝin (eo)
• Finnish: sen (fi) (in active clauses, accusative), sitä (fi) (in active clauses, partitive), se (fi) (in passive clauses, accusative), sitä (fi) (in passive clauses, partitive)
• French: le (fr) m, la (fr) f, ça (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: it (fy)

• German: es (de)
• Greek: το (el) (to)

  Ancient Greek: (neuter personal pronoun, when referring to inanimate thing or neuter noun) αὐτό n (autó); (medial, proximal, distal demonstratives:) τοῦτο n (toûto), τόδε n (tóde), ἐκεῖνο n (ekeîno); (Epic demonstratives) τό (tó), ὅ (hó); (when referring to feminine noun:) αὐτήν (autḗn), ταύτην (taútēn), ἥνδε (hḗnde), ἐκείνην (ekeínēn), τήν (tḗn), ἥν (hḗn); (when referring to masculine noun:) αὐτόν (autón), τοῦτον (toûton), τόνδε (tónde), ἐκεῖνον (ekeînon), τόν (tón), ὅν (hón)

• Hebrew: אותו (he) m (otó), אותה f (otá)
• Hindi: वह (hi) (vah), यह (hi) (yah)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: nws

• Hungarian: azt (hu), ezt (hu)
• Ido: ol (io), olu (io)
• Ingrian: hänen (accusative), häntä (partitive)
• Irish: é m, í f

  Old Irish: a-, id-, did-, d-, -i, -it

• Italian: lo (it)
• Japanese: それ (ja) (soré)
• Korean: 그것 (ko) (geugeot)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: wî (ku) m, wê (ku) f

• Lao: ມັນ (man)
• Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
• Macedonian: го (mk) (go) (short form), него (mk) (nego) (long form)
• Mongolian: үүнийг (üüniig)
• Norwegian: den (no)
• Old English: hit (ang), þæt (ang)
• Persian: او را (u râ)
• Pipil: ki-, k-
• Portuguese: o (pt) m, a (pt) f
• Russian: его́ (ru) m or n (jevó) (genitive case), ему́ (ru) m or n (jemú) (dative case), его́ (ru) m or n (jevó) (accusative case), им (ru) m or n (im) (instrumental case), нём (ru) m or n (njom) (prepositional case); её (ru) f (jejó) (genitive case), ей (ru) f (jej) (dative case), её (ru) f (jejó) (accusative case), е́ю (ru) (jéju) / ей (ru) f (jej) (instrumental case), ней (ru) f (nej) (prepositional case)
• Slovak: to (sk)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jo

• Spanish: le (es) (indirect object), la (es) f (direct object), lo (es) m (direct object), ello (es) n (after a preposition), él (es) m (after a preposition), ella (es) f (after a preposition)
• Swedish: den (sv) c, det (sv) n
• Thai: มัน (th) (man)
• Tooro: gwo class 3, lyo class 5, kyo class 7, yo class 9, rwo class 11, ko class 12, bwo class 14, kwo class 15, ho class 16
• Wolof: ko
• Zulu: yena class 1, wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11, bona class 14, khona class 15/17
• ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ãh, (emphatic) ãhʻã, ìh

subject of impersonal statement

• Belarusian: гэ́та (be) (héta)
• Catalan: not used in Catalan
• Dutch: het (nl)
• Faroese: tað n
• Finnish: not used in Finnish
• French: ce (fr)
• German: es (de)
• Greek: Ancient: (third person verb without subject)
• Hebrew: זה (he) m (ze)
• Irish: sé (ga)
• Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
• Portuguese: not used in Portuguese
• Russian: э́то (ru) (éto)
• Spanish: not used in Spanish
• Swedish: det (sv)
• Ukrainian: це (uk) (ce)
• Zulu: khona class 17

impersonal pronoun, used without referent

• Catalan: not used in Catalan
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: not used in Classical Chinese

• Dutch: het (nl), ze (nl), hem (nl)
• French: il (fr), ça (fr)
• Galician: el (gl)
• German: es (de) n
• Greek: Ancient: (third person verb without subject)
• Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
• Low German:

  German Low German: et (nds), het (nds) (rare)

• Spanish: not used in Spanish
• Swedish: det (sv) n

impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder

• Catalan: not used in Catalan
• Dutch: het (nl)
• French: ce (fr), ça (fr), cela (fr)
• Galician: el (gl)
• Latin: id (la), illud, hoc (la)
• Spanish: not used in Spanish

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Udmurt: ^{(please verify)} со (so)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} nó (vi)

See also

other subject and object pronouns in English

• he
• her
• him
• I
• me
• she
• thee
• them
• they
• thou
• us
• we
• ye
• you

Determiner

it

1. (obsolete) Its.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5:

     That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou ſhalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Uine vndreſſed: for it is a yeere of reſt vnto the land.

     replaced by "its" in the 1769 Oxford Standard Text

Noun

it (plural its)

1. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it: an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"

   • 1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence, page 8:

     Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.

3. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.

   In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…

   Tag, you're it!

   • 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Odds”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 66:

     When you play hi-spy, and are “it,” and want to know where the others have hid, take a stick and put it up on end and let it fall. If it falls three times in the same direction, that shows you the way to go to find the hiders.

   • 2000, Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children, page 464:

     When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its.

4. (UK) A game of tag.

   Let's play it at breaktime.

5. (informal) A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.

   Man, he's really got it.

   She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.

6. (informal, chiefly in the negative) Something desirable or suitable.

   Bro, that shirt is not it.

7. (informal) Sexual intercourse.

   OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.

8. (informal) Sex appeal.

   She really has it going on.

9. Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
   • 1988, Frederic D. Homer, The Interpretation of Illness, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces. Early life and sexuality permeate […]

10. Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).
    • 2015, Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body, Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:

      […] thus reversing the roles of the I and the it, the former now occupying the place of the latter and vice versa. An awareness of our bisubjective nature (it and me) requires thus an I as a third term that slides between  […]

Translations

The person who chases others in the game of tag

• Finnish: hippa (fi)
• French: chat (fr) m, loup (fr) m
• German: Fänger (de) m, but mostly expressed with the verb sein (“to be”), e.g. Wer ist? – Du bist!
• Hungarian: fogó (hu)
• Japanese: 鬼 (ja) (おに, oni)
• Polish: berek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pegador m
• Russian: во́да (ru) m or f (vóda)
• Sundanese: ucing (su)
• Swedish: datten (sv) c
• Tagalog: taya
• Turkish: ebe (tr)

the game of tag — see tag

Adjective

it (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
   • 2007 September, Vibe, volume 15, number 9, page 202:

     Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it" bag.

   • 2010, David Germain, Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press:

     With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.

   • 2021 October 4, Robert P, “Are Golden Goose Sneakers Worth It? My Honest Review Of Golden Goose Sneakers”, in Gold Talk Club‎^[13], archived from the original on 15 July 2024:

     These Italian made sneakers quickly became an it shoe and the trend is not going anywhere any time soon!

   • 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

     (Our culture's “it”-novelist, Sally Rooney, is instead tellingly God-obsessed.)

References

• “it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “it”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• TI, T&I, t͞i, Ti., ti

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		ит
Arabic		ایت

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [it]

• Audio (Baku):

  (file)

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itlər)

1. dog
2. (slang) cop, police

Declension

Declension of it

	singular	plural
nominative	it	itlər
definite accusative	iti	itləri
dative	itə	itlərə
locative	itdə	itlərdə
ablative	itdən	itlərdən
definite genitive	itin	itlərin

Possessive forms of it

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itim	itlərim
sənin (“your”)	itin	itlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	iti	itləri
bizim (“our”)	itimiz	itlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	itiniz	itləriniz
onların (“their”)	iti or itləri	itləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itimi	itlərimi
sənin (“your”)	itini	itlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	itini	itlərini
bizim (“our”)	itimizi	itlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	itinizi	itlərinizi
onların (“their”)	itini or itlərini	itlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itimə	itlərimə
sənin (“your”)	itinə	itlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	itinə	itlərinə
bizim (“our”)	itimizə	itlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	itinizə	itlərinizə
onların (“their”)	itinə or itlərinə	itlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itimdə	itlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	itində	itlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	itində	itlərində
bizim (“our”)	itimizdə	itlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	itinizdə	itlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	itində or itlərində	itlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itimdən	itlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	itindən	itlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	itindən	itlərindən
bizim (“our”)	itimizdən	itlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	itinizdən	itlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	itindən or itlərindən	itlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	itimin	itlərimin
sənin (“your”)	itinin	itlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	itinin	itlərinin
bizim (“our”)	itimizin	itlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	itinizin	itlərinizin
onların (“their”)	itinin or itlərinin	itlərinin

Derived terms

• itbaz (“caninophile”)

See also

• köpək

Further reading

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “it”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[14] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 2, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, pages 606-607
• Altun Kitab (2013–), “it”, in Azleks

Charrua

Noun

it

1. fire

References

• Rodolfo Maruca Sosa, La nación charrúa (1957)

Chuukese

Noun

it

1. name

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.

Noun

it

1. dog

Synonyms

• köpek

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[15], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From dialectal Arabic إِيد (ʔīd), from يَد (yad).

Noun

it f (plural ten)

1. hand

   Misek v-varka min tey u şalxa. ― He snatched the book out of my hands and threw it down.

   Teipsu texon! ― May their hands wither!

2. handle

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 473

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of it – see 一 (“one; each; every; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 一).

Irish

Alternative forms

• id

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt̪ˠ/

Contraction

it (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) contraction of i (“in”) +‎ do (“your sg”)

   Buail it phóca é.

   Put it in your pocket.

Related terms

Irish preposition contractions

	contracted with							copular forms
base form	an (“the sg”)	na (“the pl”)	mo (“my”)	do (“your”)	a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár (“our”)	ar (“which (past)”)	before a consonant	before a vowel
									present/future	past/conditional
de (“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded*, det*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do (“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod*, dot*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi (“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i (“in”)	sa, san	sna	i mo im*	i do id*, it*	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le (“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led*, let*	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó (“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód*, ót*	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí (“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh

*dialectal

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• hit (dialects without H-dropping)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /it/
• Hyphenation: it

Etymology 1

Derived from English it. Compare English hit, Gullah i, Antigua and Barbuda Creole English it, Guyanese Creole English ii, Hawaiian Creole it, Nigerian Pidgin it, Vincentian Creole English e, Yola yt, Old English ġit, Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronoun

it

1. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
2. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it

Usage notes

Neutral form, contrasting with i in unstressed positions and hit in stressed position.

Etymology 2

Derived from English hit.

Verb

it

1. (rare) to hit (Can we add an example for this sense? (Majstro.com shows it as a word for "hit" but I'm not sure))

   Synonym: lik

Further reading

• it at majstro.com

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ɨt.

Noun

it

1. dog, hound

References

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “it”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈit]

Verb

it

1. third-person singular present active indicative of eō

Latvian

Particle

it

1. used to assign accentuation to expression

   it sevišķi ― especially

   it nekas ― nothing at all

   it nekur ― nowhere at all

   it nemaz ― not at all

   it kā ― as if

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

1. alternative form of het

Middle English

Pronoun

it

1. alternative form of hit (“it”)

Determiner

it

1. alternative form of hit (“it”)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon it, from Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt/, /ət/

Pronoun

it

1. (third person singular neuter nominative) it
2. (third person singular neuter accusative) it

Declension

Middle Low German personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik (ek)	mî (mê, mik, mek)		mîn (mîner)
	2nd person		dû	dî (dê, dik, dek)		dîn (dîner)
	3rd person	m	hê (hî, hie)	ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn)	ēme, em (ȫme, en)	sîn (sîner)
		n	it (et)
		f	sê (sî, sie, sü̂)		ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)
plural	1st person		wî (wê, wie)	uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik)		unser (ûser)
	2nd person		gî (jê, î)	jû (jûwe, û, jük, gik)		jûwer (ûwer)
	3rd person		sê (sî, sie)		em, öm, jüm (en, ēnen, ȫnen)	ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

Descendants

• Low German: et, it
• Plautdietsch: et

Middle Welsh

Alternative forms

• itt, yt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /it/

Pronoun

it

1. second-person singular of y (“to”)

Descendants

• Welsh: it

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈih(t)/

Verb

it

1. second-person singular present of ii

Old English

Alternative forms

• yt, ytt, et, ett, eteþ, ieteþ, yteþ, iteþ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /it/
• Rhymes: -it

Verb

it

1. third-person singular present indicative of etan

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• (second-person singular form) at

Pronunciation

• (second-person singular form) IPA^(key): /ˈit̠ʲ/
• (third-person plural form) IPA^(key): /ˈid̠ʲ/

Verb

it

1. inflection of is:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jit, North-West Germanic form of *jut. Cognate with Old English ġit, Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐍄 (jut).

Pronoun

it

1. (personal) second-person dual pronoun; you two

Declension

Old Norse personal pronouns

singular	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
				masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ek	þú	—	hann	hon, hón, hǫ́n	þat
accusative	mik	þik	sik	hann	hana, hána	þat
dative	mér	þér	sér	hánum, hónum, hǫ́num	henni	því
genitive	mín	þín	sín	hans	hennar	þess
dual	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	vit	it, þit	—
accusative	okkr	ykkr	sik
dative	okkr	ykkr	sér
genitive	okkar	ykkar	sín
plural	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
				masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vér	ér, þér	—	þeir	þær	þau
accusative	oss	yðr	sik	þá	þær	þau
dative	oss	yðr	sér	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	vár	yðar, yðvar	sín	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra

Descendants

The Western descendants derive from þit, due to influence of the 2nd plural ending -ð. Compare þér (“you (plural)”).

• ⇒ Old Norse: þit
  • Icelandic: þið
  • Faroese: tit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: de, did
• Elfdalian: ið
• Old Swedish: it
  • Finland Swedish: et, ät

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *it.

Pronoun

it n

1. it

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik	mī, me, mik	mī	mīn
	2nd person		thū	thī, thik	thī	thīn
	3rd person	m	hē	ina	imu	is
		f	siu	sia	iru	ira
		n	it		it	is
dual	1st person		wit	unk		unkero, unka
	2nd person		git	ink		inker, inka
plural	1st person		wī, we	ūs, unsik	ūs	ūser
	2nd person		gī, ge	eu, iu, iuu		euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera
	3rd person	m	sia		im	iro
		f	sia
		n	siu

Descendants

• Middle Low German: it
  • Low German: et, it
  • Plautdietsch: et

Piedmontese

Pronoun

it

1. you (singular)

Sathmar Swabian

Adverb

it

1. not

References

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

Turkish

bir it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈit/

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *ï̄t

Ottoman Turkish ایت (it)

Turkish it

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایت (it), from Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”). Compare Yakut ыт (ït, “dog”).

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itler)

1. (chiefly derogatory) dog

   Synonym: köpek

2. (derogatory) scoundrel, detestable person, cur

Usage notes

• Not historically derogatory, and still used as the primary term for "dog" in the countryside. Usually, if a dog is a stray or feral, it can be referred to as "it" as well. The more usual word is köpek, which is also pejorative and derogatory when used for a person.

Declension

Declension of it

singular plural nominative it itler definite accusative iti itleri dative ite itlere locative itte itlerde ablative itten itlerden genitive itin itlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular itim itlerim 2nd singular itin itlerin 3rd singular iti itleri 1st plural itimiz itlerimiz 2nd plural itiniz itleriniz 3rd plural itleri itleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular itimi itlerimi 2nd singular itini itlerini 3rd singular itini itlerini 1st plural itimizi itlerimizi 2nd plural itinizi itlerinizi 3rd plural itlerini itlerini dative singular plural 1st singular itime itlerime 2nd singular itine itlerine 3rd singular itine itlerine 1st plural itimize itlerimize 2nd plural itinize itlerinize 3rd plural itlerine itlerine locative singular plural 1st singular itimde itlerimde 2nd singular itinde itlerinde 3rd singular itinde itlerinde 1st plural itimizde itlerimizde 2nd plural itinizde itlerinizde 3rd plural itlerinde itlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular itimden itlerimden 2nd singular itinden itlerinden 3rd singular itinden itlerinden 1st plural itimizden itlerimizden 2nd plural itinizden itlerinizden 3rd plural itlerinden itlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular itimin itlerimin 2nd singular itinin itlerinin 3rd singular itinin itlerinin 1st plural itimizin itlerimizin 2nd plural itinizin itlerinizin 3rd plural itlerinin itlerinin Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular itim itlerim 2nd singular itsin itlersin 3rd singular it ittir itler itlerdir 1st plural itiz itleriz 2nd plural itsiniz itlersiniz 3rd plural itler itlerdir

Derived terms

• it canlı
• it dalaşı
• it elli
• it hıyarı
• it kopuk
• it üzümü
• itboğan
• itburnu
• itçe
• itdirseği
• itkuyruğu
• itlenmek
• itleşmek
• itlik
• itoğluit
• itperest

idiomatic uses of "it"

• it ağzını kemik tutar
• it değmekle deniz pis olmaz
• it derisinden post olmaz
• it dişi domuz derisi
• it ite buyurur, it de kuyruğuna
• it iti ısırmaz
• it kağnı gölgesinde yürür de kendi gölgesi sanırmış
• it ulur, birbirini bulur
• it ürür, kervan yürür
• ite atsan yemez
• itin götüne sokmak

Further reading

• “it”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “it”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “it”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

it

1. second-person singular imperative of itmek

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	it
Cyrillic	ит
Arabic	ایت

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itler)

1. dog

Declension

Declension of it

	singular	plural
nominative	it	itler
accusative	iti	itleri
genitive	itiň	itleriň
dative	ite	itlere
locative	itde	itlerde
ablative	itden	itlerden

Further reading

• “it” in Enedilim.com
• “it” in Webonary.org

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Noun

it

1. dog

Declension

Declension of it

	singular	plural
nominative	it	itlar
genitive	itning	itlarning
dative	itga	itlarga
definite accusative	itni	itlarni
locative	itda	itlarda
ablative	itdan	itlardan

Possessive forms of it

my	singular	plural
nominative	itim	itlarim
genitive	itimning	itlarimning
dative	itimga	itlarimga
definite accusative	itimni	itlarimni
locative	itimda	itlarimda
ablative	itimdan	itlarimdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	iting	itlaring
genitive	itingning	itlaringning
dative	itingga	itlaringga
definite accusative	itingni	itlaringni
locative	itingda	itlaringda
ablative	itingdan	itlaringdan
her/his/its	singular	plural
nominative	iti	itlari
genitive	itining	itlarining
dative	itiga	itlariga
definite accusative	itini	itlarini
locative	itida	itlarida
ablative	itidan	itlaridan
our	singular	plural
nominative	itimiz	itlarimiz
genitive	itimizning	itlarimizning
dative	itimizga	itlarimizga
definite accusative	itimizni	itlarimizni
locative	itimizda	itlarimizda
ablative	itimizdan	itlarimizdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	itingiz	itlaringiz
genitive	itingizning	itlaringizning
dative	itingizga	itlaringizga
definite accusative	itingizni	itlaringizni
locative	itingizda	itlaringizda
ablative	itingizdan	itlaringizdan
their	singular	plural
nominative	iti	itlari
genitive	itining	itlarining
dative	itiga	itlariga
definite accusative	itini	itlarini
locative	itida	itlarida
ablative	itidan	itlaridan

Volapük

Determiner

it

1. (with a personal pronoun) self; myself; yourself; himself; herself; itself; ourselves; themselves; emphasises the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 15:

     Ob it egivob ciles et magodis ot.

     I have given those children the same pictures myself.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• iti, i ti

Etymology

From Middle Welsh it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

1. (literary) second-person singular of i

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /(ə)t/

Pronoun

it

1. it (third-person singular neuter pronoun)

Inflection

West Frisian personal pronouns and possessives

			personal				possessive
			subject case	object case			determiner	pronoun
				normal	reflexive
singular	1st		ik	my	mysels		myn	mines
	2nd	informal	do, dû1	dy	dysels		dyn	dines
		formal	jo	jo	josels		jo	jowes
	3rd	m	hy	him	himsels		syn	sines
		f	sy, hja1	har	harsels		har	harres
		n	it	it	himsels		syn	sines
plural	1st		wy	ús	ússels		ús	uzes
	2nd		jim(me)	jim(me)	jimsels, jinsels		jim(me)	jimmes
	3rd		sy, hja1	har(ren)	harsels		har(ren)	harres

¹ Now mostly archaic and unused.

Further reading

• “it (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian thet, from Proto-Germanic *þat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ə)t/

Determiner

it

1. neuter singular of de

Yola

Alternative forms

• yt
• t' (misspelling)

Etymology

From Middle English hit, from Old English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

1. it
   • 1867, “GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY“, page 23:

     Awye wough it.

     Away with it.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:

     Leth it be.

     Let it be.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 56:

     Dinna mell wi' it.

     Don't meddle with it.

Derived terms

• tis
• it's
• 'twas
• mai't
• lee it

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23, &c.

Zhuang

Zhuang cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : it

Etymology

From Chinese 一 (MC 'jit, “one”). Cognate with Thai เอ็ด (èt), Lao ເອັດ (ē ʼat), Shan ဢဵတ်း (ʼáet), Ahom 𑜒𑜢𑜄𑜫 (ʼit), Bouyei idt.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔit˥/
• Tone numbers: id⁷
• Hyphenation: it

Numeral

it (1957–1982 spelling it)

1. one

   daih'it

   first

   song bak it

   two hundred and ten

   it cien

   one thousand

Usage notes

Used with ngeih rather than song.

Synonyms

• ndeu