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pronoun
pronounititselfitshistheythemhiti'itt't
- 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.
It is not a pen. It is a book.
- 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.
- 3.
(rare)A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
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.
- 4.
(obsolete)An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
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.”
- 5.
(derogatory, offensive)(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!!"
- 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.
- 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 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
- 9.
(uncountable)Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
- 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.
It was felt that I'd be the right man for the job.
I find it odd that you would say that.
It is hard seeing you so sick.
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
It is not clear if the report was true.
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.
- 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.
- 12.
(obsolete)Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
determiner
determinerhiti'itt't
- 1.
(obsolete)Its.
Danh từ
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.
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
Tag, you're it!
- 3.
(British)A game of tag.
Let's play it at breaktime.
- 4.
(informal)A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
Man, he's really got it.
She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
- 5.
(informal)(informal, chiefly in the negative) Something desirable or suitable.
Bro, that shirt is not it.
- 6.
(informal)Sexual intercourse.
OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
- 7.
(informal)Sex appeal.
She really has it going on.
- 8.
(alt of)Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
- 9.
(alt of)Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(colloquial, not comparable)Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.
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From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal hit), from Old English hit (it), from *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (this, this one), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (here; here). 2 cog Cognate with it, t', yt (it), at, et, 't (it), et, it, het, hatt, eð; also ᚕᚑᚔ, cis, hic (this), εκείνος. Compare es, is, 's, 'z (it), es, 's (it, there), s, עס, ið, 𐌹𐍄𐌰, which instead descends from. More at he.