it

Etymology
From, ( > dialectal 🇨🇬), from , from  , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at.

Pronoun

 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * It is not a pen. It is a book.
 * 1) * 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.”
 * 1) * 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!!"
 * rough it
 * live it up
 * stick it out
 * After all these years, she still has it.
 * I caught them doing it.
 * Are you getting it regularly?
 * 1)  Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
 * (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the gerund seeing)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by if)
 * 1) All or the end; something after which there is no more.
 * : That which; what.
 * 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!!"
 * rough it
 * live it up
 * stick it out
 * After all these years, she still has it.
 * I caught them doing it.
 * Are you getting it regularly?
 * 1)  Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
 * (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the gerund seeing)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by if)
 * 1) All or the end; something after which there is no more.
 * : That which; what.
 * stick it out
 * After all these years, she still has it.
 * I caught them doing it.
 * Are you getting it regularly?
 * 1)  Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
 * (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the gerund seeing)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by if)
 * 1) All or the end; something after which there is no more.
 * : That which; what.
 * (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the gerund seeing)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by that)
 * (with the noun clause introduced by if)
 * 1) All or the end; something after which there is no more.
 * : That which; what.
 * 1) All or the end; something after which there is no more.
 * : That which; what.
 * : That which; what.
 * : That which; what.

Usage notes

 * See English inflection, Appendix:English pronouns and Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for other personal pronouns.

Translations

 * Udmurt:
 * Vietnamese:

Determiner

 * 1)  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)  A game of tag.
 * 4)  A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
 * Man, he's really got it.
 * She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
 * 1)  Sexual intercourse.
 * OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
 * 1)  Sex appeal.
 * She really has it going on.
 * She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
 * 1)  Sexual intercourse.
 * OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
 * 1)  Sex appeal.
 * She really has it going on.

Adjective

 * 1)  Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Noun

 * 1) fire

Noun

 * 1) name

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Etymology 1
. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Usage notes
Neutral form, contrasting with in unstressed positions and  in stressed position.

Etymology 2
.

Verb

 * 1)  to hit

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dog, hound

Particle

 * 1) used to assign accentuation to expression

Etymology
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  it
 * 2)  it

Etymology
From, North-West Germanic form of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  second-person dual pronoun;

Descendants
The Western descendants derive from, due to influence of the 2nd plural ending -ð. Compare.
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,
 * Finland Swedish: ,

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) it

Pronoun

 * 1) you (singular)

Adverb

 * 1) not

Etymology 1
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  dog
 * , 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, which is also pejorative and derogatory when used for a person.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dog

Declension
Declension of it Possessive forms of it

Determiner

 * 1)  self; myself; yourself; himself; herself; itself; ourselves; themselves;

Etymology 1
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) it third-person singular neuter pronoun

Etymology 2
From, from.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) one

Usage notes
Used with rather than.