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ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.
it
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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.
- 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.
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Used to refer to a human generically, or humans collectively as a species.
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Used dehumanizingly to refer to a person.
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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.
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A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
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An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
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A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
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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.
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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).
- It is nearly 10 o’clock.
- It’s 10:45.
- It’s very cold today.
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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
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Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
- After all these years, she still has it.
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Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
- I caught them doing it.
- Are you getting it regularly?
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Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.
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Its.
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One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
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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!
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A game of tag.
- Let's play it at breaktime.
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A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
- Man, he's really got it.
- She's the it girl, at least for this Fall.
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Something desirable or suitable.
- Bro, that shirt is not it.
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Sexual intercourse.
- OMG, they were doing it in the storage room.
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Sex appeal.
- She really has it going on.
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Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
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Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).
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Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.