-ite
suffix
/-aɪt/
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- (sometimes, pejorative) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
- Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
- Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
- (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
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-it
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it
pronoun
/ɘt/
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/ət/
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/ɪt/
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[ɪt]
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[ɪ̈t]
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[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.
- 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).
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
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det,
den
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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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den,
det
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it
noun
/ɘt/
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/ət/
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/ɪt/
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[ɪt]
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[ɪ̈t]
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[ɪ̈ʔ]
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- The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
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datten
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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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dess
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its
determiner
/ɪts/
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- Belonging to it. [from 16th c.]
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dess
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