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sitä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
  • the article Used before a noun to show that the listener already knows, or can work out, exactly which thing is meant.

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

  1. pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
  2. pron Used as a placeholder subject in sentences describing weather, time, or general conditions.

the — full definition

  1. article Used before a noun to show that the listener already knows, or can work out, exactly which thing is meant.
  2. adv Used with comparative adjectives to show one thing changing in step with another.

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