it
pronoun
/ɘt/
,
/ət/
,
/ɪt/
,
[ɪt]
,
[ɪ̈t]
,
[ɪ̈ʔ]
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- The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
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sé,
é,
sí,
ea,
í
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- 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).
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sé
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- 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.
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é,
í
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its
pronoun
/ɪts/
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- The one (or ones) belonging to it. [from 17th c.]
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a
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-ite
suffix
/-aɪt/
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- (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
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-ít
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