им — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
им 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.
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.
them — full definition
- pron The objective form of "they" — used for people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition.
- pron Used for a single person whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or non-binary.