sitä — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
sitä is used for these senses in English:
- it 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.
- the With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
it — full definition
- pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
- pron Used as a placeholder subject in sentences describing weather, time, or general conditions.
the — full definition
- article Used before a noun to show that the listener already knows, or can work out, exactly which thing is meant.
- adv Used with comparative adjectives to show one thing changing in step with another.