It

Quick meaning: It is a pronoun meaning The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

Meaning

The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

More Meanings

1. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
2. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
3. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
4. 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).
5. (rare) A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
6. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
7. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.

Example Sentences

Take each day as it comes.

It is not a pen. It is a book.

Take this book and put it on the shelf.

She took the baby and held it in her arms.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include try, prove, this, that, one, he.

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