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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪt/
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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: ĭt
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• New-Zealand: /ɘt/
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• rhymes with -ɪt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ɪ̈t]
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ɪt]
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• General-American: /ət/
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• General-American: [ɪ̈t]
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• General-American: [ɪ̈ʔ]
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• General-American: ət
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• Northwestern, US: [ɪʔ]
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• Australian: /ət/
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• homophone: at (unstressed) (General American, General Australian)
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; here”). Cognates Cognate with Yola it, t', yt (“it”), North Frisian at, et, 't (“it”), Saterland Frisian et (“it”), West Frisian it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Luxembourgish hatt (“her, it, she”), Elfdalian eð (“it”); also Primitive Irish ᚕᚑᚔ (koi, “here”), Latin cis (“short of; before”), hic (“this”), Greek εκείνος (ekeínos, “that; those”). Compare Cimbrian es, is, 's, 'z (“it”), German es, 's (“it, there”), Mòcheno and Vilamovian s (“it”), Yiddish עס (es, “it”), Faroese ið (“that, which, who”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), which instead descends from Proto-Germanic *it (“it”). More at he.

431 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: hippa — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• French: chat — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• French: loup — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• German: Fänger — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Hungarian: fogó — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Japanese: 鬼 (oni) — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Polish: berek — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Portuguese: pegador — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Russian: во́да (vóda) — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Sundanese: ucing — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Swedish: datten — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Tagalog: taya — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Turkish: ebe — The person who chases others in the game of tag
• Abkhaz: ИТ (ITʼ) — information technology
• Arabic: أَي تِي (ʔay tī) — information technology
• Arabic: IT — information technology
• Armenian: ՏՏ — information technology
• Bulgarian: ИТ — information technology
• Dutch: ICT — information technology
• Estonian: IT — information technology
• Finnish: IT — information technology
• French: informatique — information technology
• German: IT — information technology
• German: EDV — information technology
• Japanese: アイティー (aitī) — information technology
• Japanese: IT (aitī) — information technology
• Khmer: អាយធី (ʼaaythii) — information technology
• Korean: 아이티 (aiti) — information technology
• Korean: IT — information technology
• Lithuanian: IT — information technology
• Polish: IT — information technology
• Portuguese: TI — information technology
• Romanian: IT — information technology
• Romanian: TI — information technology
• Russian: ИТ — information technology
• Russian: ай-ти́ (aj-tí) — information technology
• Spanish: tecnología de la información — information technology
• Thai: ไอที (ai-tii) — information technology
• Turkish: BT — information technology
• Turkish: İT — information technology
• Vietnamese: CNTT — information technology
• Xibe: ᠠᡞ ᡨᡞ (ai ti) — information technology
• Afrikaans: dit — subject — inanimate thing
• Akan: ɛno — subject — inanimate thing
• Albanian: ai — subject — inanimate thing
• Albanian: ajo — subject — inanimate thing
• Southern Altai: ол (ol) — subject — inanimate thing
• Amharic: እሱ (ʾəsu) — subject — inanimate thing
• Arabic: هُوَ (huwa) — subject — inanimate thing
• Arabic: هِيَ (hiya) — subject — inanimate thing
• Armenian: դա (da) — subject — inanimate thing
• Azerbaijani: o — subject — inanimate thing
• Bashkir: ул (ul) — subject — inanimate thing
• Belarusian: яно́ (janó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Belarusian: гэ́та (héta) — subject — inanimate thing
• Bengali: সে (śe) — subject — inanimate thing
• Bouyei: deel — subject — inanimate thing
• Bulgarian: той (toj) — subject — inanimate thing
• Bulgarian: тя (tja) — subject — inanimate thing
• Bulgarian: то (to) — subject — inanimate thing
• Burmese: သူ (su) — subject — inanimate thing
• Carpathian Rusyn: оно́ (onó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Catalan: ell — subject — inanimate thing
• Catalan: ella — subject — inanimate thing
• Catalan: allò — subject — inanimate thing
• Catalan: això — subject — inanimate thing
• Chinese Mandarin: 它 (tā) — subject — inanimate thing
• Chinese Mandarin: 之 (zhī) — subject — inanimate thing
• Chinese Mandarin: 這 /这 (zhè, zhèi) — subject — inanimate thing
• Chinese Mandarin: 那 (nà, nèi) — subject — inanimate thing
• Chinese Mandarin: 牠 /它 (tā) — subject — inanimate thing
• Cornish: ev — subject — inanimate thing
• Cornish: hi — subject — inanimate thing
• Czech: to — subject — inanimate thing
• Czech: ono — subject — inanimate thing
• Czech: on — subject — inanimate thing
• Czech: ona — subject — inanimate thing
• Danish: den c det — subject — inanimate thing
• Dutch: het — subject — inanimate thing
• Dutch: hij — subject — inanimate thing
• Erzya: сон (son) — subject — inanimate thing
• Erzya: те (te) — subject — inanimate thing
• Esperanto: ĝi — subject — inanimate thing
• Estonian: see — subject — inanimate thing
• Estonian: too — subject — inanimate thing
• Faroese: tað — subject — inanimate thing
• Finnish: se — subject — inanimate thing
• French: il — subject — inanimate thing
• French: elle — subject — inanimate thing
• French: ce — subject — inanimate thing
• French: ça — subject — inanimate thing
• West-Frisian: it — subject — inanimate thing
• Georgian: ის (is) — subject — inanimate thing
• German: er — subject — inanimate thing
• German: sie — subject — inanimate thing
• German: es — subject — inanimate thing
• Greek: το (to) — subject — inanimate thing
• Greek: αυτό (aftó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Greek: τούτος (toútos) — subject — inanimate thing
• Ancient Greek: τόδε (tóde) — subject — inanimate thing
• Ancient Greek: ἐκεῖνο (ekeîno) — subject — inanimate thing
• Ancient Greek: τό (tó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Ancient Greek: ὅ (hó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Greenlandic: una — subject — inanimate thing
• Mbya Guarani: ha'e — subject — inanimate thing
• Hawaiian: ia — subject — inanimate thing
• Hebrew: זֶה (ze) — subject — inanimate thing
• Hebrew: זֹאת (zot) — subject — inanimate thing
• Hindi: वह (vah) — subject — inanimate thing
• Hindi: यह (yah) — subject — inanimate thing
• White Hmong: nws — subject — inanimate thing
• Hopi: pam — subject — inanimate thing
• Hungarian: az — subject — inanimate thing
• Hungarian: ez — subject — inanimate thing
• Icelandic: það — subject — inanimate thing
• Ido: ol — subject — inanimate thing
• Ido: olu — subject — inanimate thing
• Ingrian: hää — subject — inanimate thing
• Interlingua: lo — subject — inanimate thing
• Interlingua: illo — subject — inanimate thing
• Irish: sé — subject — inanimate thing
• Irish: é — subject — inanimate thing
• Irish: sí — subject — inanimate thing
• Irish: í — subject — inanimate thing
• Irish: ea — subject — inanimate thing
• Old Irish: ed — subject — inanimate thing
• Italian: esso — subject — inanimate thing
• Italian: essa — subject — inanimate thing
• Italian: lo — subject — inanimate thing
• Italian: la — subject — inanimate thing
• Jamaican Creole: it — subject — inanimate thing
• Jamaican Creole: hit — subject — inanimate thing
• Japanese: これ (kore) — subject — inanimate thing
• Japanese: それ (sore) — subject — inanimate thing
• Japanese: あれ (are) — subject — inanimate thing
• Judeo-Italian: אֵיסוֹ — subject — inanimate thing
• Judeo-Italian: אֵיסַה — subject — inanimate thing
• Kannada: ಇದು (idu) — subject — inanimate thing
• Kannada: ಅದು (adu) — subject — inanimate thing
• Karakhanid: اُلْ (ol) — subject — inanimate thing
• Kazakh: ол (ol) — subject — inanimate thing
• Khmer: វា (viə) — subject — inanimate thing
• Korean: 이것 (igeot) — subject — inanimate thing
• Korean: 그것 (geugeot) — subject — inanimate thing
• Korean: 저것 (jeogeot) — subject — inanimate thing
• Northern Kurdish: ew — subject — inanimate thing
• Kyrgyz: ал (al) — subject — inanimate thing
• Lao: ມັນ (man) — subject — inanimate thing
• Latin: id — subject — inanimate thing
• Latvian: tas — subject — inanimate thing
• Latvian: tā — subject — inanimate thing
• Linngithigh: lu — subject — inanimate thing
• Lithuanian: jis — subject — inanimate thing
• Low German: et — subject — inanimate thing
• Low German: het — subject — inanimate thing
• Middle Low German: it — subject — inanimate thing
• Middle Low German: et — subject — inanimate thing
• Macedonian: тоа (toa) — subject — inanimate thing
• Malay: ia — subject — inanimate thing
• Maltese: hu — subject — inanimate thing
• Maltese: hi — subject — inanimate thing
• Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak — subject — inanimate thing
• Mòcheno: er — subject — inanimate thing
• Mòcheno: si — subject — inanimate thing
• Mòcheno: s — subject — inanimate thing
• Moksha: сон (son) — subject — inanimate thing
• Mongolian: тэр (ter) — subject — inanimate thing
• Mongolian: уун (uun) — subject — inanimate thing
• Mongolian: туун (tuun) — subject — inanimate thing
• Mongolian: энэ (ene) — subject — inanimate thing
• Motu: ia — subject — inanimate thing
• Norwegian: det — subject — inanimate thing
• Old Church Slavonic: оно (ono) — subject — inanimate thing
• Old East Slavic: оно (ono) — subject — inanimate thing
• Old English: hit — subject — inanimate thing
• Old English: þæt — subject — inanimate thing
• Pashto: هغه (hağë) — subject — inanimate thing
• Pashto: ده (də) — subject — inanimate thing
• Persian: او (u) — subject — inanimate thing
• Persian: این (in) — subject — inanimate thing
• Pipil: yaja — subject — inanimate thing
• Pipil: yaha — subject — inanimate thing
• Pitjantjatjara: ngaa — subject — inanimate thing
• Pitjantjatjara: pala — subject — inanimate thing
• Pitjantjatjara: nyara — subject — inanimate thing
• Pitjantjatjara: palunya — subject — inanimate thing
• Polish: to — subject — inanimate thing
• Portuguese: ele — subject — inanimate thing
• Portuguese: ela — subject — inanimate thing
• Portuguese: isso — subject — inanimate thing
• Rapa Nui: ia — subject — inanimate thing
• Romanian: el — subject — inanimate thing
• Russian: он (on) — subject — inanimate thing
• Russian: она́ (oná) — subject — inanimate thing
• Russian: оно́ (onó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Russian: э́то (éto) — subject — inanimate thing
• Northern Sami: son — subject — inanimate thing
• Sardinian: issu — subject — inanimate thing
• Scottish Gaelic: e — subject — inanimate thing
• Scottish Gaelic: esan — subject — inanimate thing
• Scottish Gaelic: i — subject — inanimate thing
• Scottish Gaelic: ise — subject — inanimate thing
• Serbo-Croatian: оно — subject — inanimate thing
• Serbo-Croatian: ono — subject — inanimate thing
• Sicilian: issu — subject — inanimate thing
• Sinhalese: එයා (eyā) — subject — inanimate thing
• Sinhalese: ඌ (ū) — subject — inanimate thing
• Sinhalese: ඒක (ēka) — subject — inanimate thing
• Slovak: ono — subject — inanimate thing
• Slovak: to — subject — inanimate thing
• Slovene: ôno — subject — inanimate thing
• Lower Sorbian: wóno — subject — inanimate thing
• Spanish: ello — subject — inanimate thing
• Swedish: den — subject — inanimate thing
• Swedish: det — subject — inanimate thing
• Tajik: ӯ (ü) — subject — inanimate thing
• Tajik: ин (in) — subject — inanimate thing
• Taos: ą́wąną — subject — inanimate thing
• Tatar: ул (ul) — subject — inanimate thing
• Thai: มัน (man) — subject — inanimate thing
• Tigrinya: ንሱ (nəsu) — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: gwo class 3 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: lyo class 5 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: kyo class 7 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: yo class 9 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: rwo class 11 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: ko class 12 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: bwo class 14 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: kwo class 15 — subject — inanimate thing
• Tooro: ho class 16 — subject — inanimate thing
• Turkish: o — subject — inanimate thing
• Turkmen: ol — subject — inanimate thing
• Ukrainian: воно́ (vonó) — subject — inanimate thing
• Ukrainian: це (ce) — subject — inanimate thing
• Urdu: وہ (vah) — subject — inanimate thing
• Urdu: یہ (yah) — subject — inanimate thing
• Uyghur: ئۇ (u) — subject — inanimate thing
• Uzbek: u — subject — inanimate thing
• Vietnamese: nó — subject — inanimate thing
• Volapük: on — subject — inanimate thing
• Welsh: ef — subject — inanimate thing
• Welsh: hi — subject — inanimate thing
• Wolof: moom — subject — inanimate thing
• Yámana: kitu — subject — inanimate thing
• Yiddish: עס (es) — subject — inanimate thing
• Zazaki: yin — subject — inanimate thing
• Zazaki: in — subject — inanimate thing
• Zhuang: de — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: yena — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: wona — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: lona — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: sona — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: yona — subject — inanimate thing
• Zulu: lona — subject — inanimate thing
• ǃXóõ: èh — subject — inanimate thing
• ǃXóõ: èhʻè — subject — inanimate thing
• ǃXóõ: ãh — subject — inanimate thing
• ǃXóõ: ãhʻã — subject — inanimate thing
• ǃXóõ: ìh — subject — inanimate thing
• Afrikaans: dit — object — see also that
• Arabic: ـهُ (-hu) — object — see also that
• Belizean Creole: ahn — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: не́го (négo) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: го (go) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: на не́го (na négo) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: нему (nemu) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: му (mu) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: нея (neja) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: я (ja) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: на нея (na neja) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: ней (nej) — object — see also that
• Bulgarian: ѝ (ì) — object — see also that
• Burmese: သူ (su) — object — see also that
• Catalan: ho — object — see also that
• Catalan: lo — object — see also that
• Catalan: la — object — see also that
• Catalan: allò — object — see also that
• Catalan: això — object — see also that
• Literary Chinese: 之 (zhī) — object — see also that
• Literary Chinese: 伊 (yī) — object — see also that
• Literary Chinese: 渠 (qú) — object — see also that
• Chinese Mandarin: 這 /这 (zhè) — object — see also that
• Chinese Mandarin: 那 (nà, nèi) — object — see also that
• Chinese Mandarin: 它 (tā) — object — see also that
• Chinese Mandarin: 之 (zhī) — object — see also that
• Cornish: 'n — object — see also that
• Cornish: 's — object — see also that
• Czech: toho — object — see also that
• Czech: tomu — object — see also that
• Czech: to — object — see also that
• Dutch: het — object — see also that
• Dutch: er — object — see also that
• Esperanto: ĝin — object — see also that
• French: le — object — see also that
• French: la — object — see also that
• French: ça — object — see also that
• West-Frisian: it — object — see also that
• German: es — object — see also that
• Greek: το (to) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: αὐτό (autó) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τοῦτο (toûto) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τόδε (tóde) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ἐκεῖνο (ekeîno) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τό (tó) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ὅ (hó) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: αὐτήν (autḗn) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ταύτην (taútēn) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ἥνδε (hḗnde) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ἐκείνην (ekeínēn) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τήν (tḗn) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ἥν (hḗn) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: αὐτόν (autón) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τοῦτον (toûton) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τόνδε (tónde) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ἐκεῖνον (ekeînon) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: τόν (tón) — object — see also that
• Ancient Greek: ὅν (hón) — object — see also that
• Hebrew: אותו (otó) — object — see also that
• Hebrew: אותה (otá) — object — see also that
• Hindi: वह (vah) — object — see also that
• Hindi: यह (yah) — object — see also that
• White Hmong: nws — object — see also that
• Hungarian: azt — object — see also that
• Hungarian: ezt — object — see also that
• Ido: ol — object — see also that
• Ido: olu — object — see also that
• Ingrian: hänen — object — see also that
• Ingrian: häntä — object — see also that
• Irish: é — object — see also that
• Irish: í — object — see also that
• Old Irish: a- — object — see also that
• Old Irish: id- — object — see also that
• Old Irish: did- — object — see also that
• Old Irish: d- — object — see also that
• Old Irish: -i — object — see also that
• Old Irish: -it — object — see also that
• Italian: lo — object — see also that
• Japanese: それ (soré) — object — see also that
• Korean: 그것 (geugeot) — object — see also that
• Northern Kurdish: wî — object — see also that
• Northern Kurdish: wê — object — see also that
• Lao: ມັນ (man) — object — see also that
• Latin: id — object — see also that
• Latin: illud — object — see also that
• Latin: hoc — object — see also that
• Macedonian: го (go) — object — see also that
• Macedonian: него (nego) — object — see also that
• Mongolian: үүнийг (üüniig) — object — see also that
• Norwegian: den — object — see also that
• Old English: hit — object — see also that
• Old English: þæt — object — see also that
• Persian: او را (u râ) — object — see also that
• Pipil: ki- — object — see also that
• Pipil: k- — object — see also that
• Portuguese: o — object — see also that
• Portuguese: a — object — see also that
• Russian: его́ (jevó) — object — see also that
• Russian: ему́ (jemú) — object — see also that
• Russian: его́ (jevó) — object — see also that
• Russian: им (im) — object — see also that
• Russian: её (jejó) — object — see also that
• Russian: ей (jej) — object — see also that
• Russian: её (jejó) — object — see also that
• Russian: е́ю (jéju) — object — see also that
• Russian: ей (jej) — object — see also that
• Slovak: to — object — see also that
• Lower Sorbian: jo — object — see also that
• Spanish: le — object — see also that
• Spanish: la — object — see also that
• Spanish: lo — object — see also that
• Swedish: den — object — see also that
• Swedish: det — object — see also that
• Thai: มัน (man) — object — see also that
• Tooro: gwo class 3 — object — see also that
• Tooro: lyo class 5 — object — see also that
• Tooro: kyo class 7 — object — see also that
• Tooro: yo class 9 — object — see also that
• Tooro: rwo class 11 — object — see also that
• Tooro: ko class 12 — object — see also that
• Tooro: bwo class 14 — object — see also that
• Tooro: kwo class 15 — object — see also that
• Tooro: ho class 16 — object — see also that
• Wolof: ko — object — see also that
• Zulu: yena — object — see also that
• Zulu: wona — object — see also that
• Zulu: lona — object — see also that
• Zulu: sona — object — see also that
• Zulu: yona — object — see also that
• Zulu: lona — object — see also that
• Zulu: bona — object — see also that
• Zulu: khona — object — see also that
• ǃXóõ: èh — object — see also that
• ǃXóõ: èhʻè — object — see also that
• ǃXóõ: ãh — object — see also that
• ǃXóõ: ãhʻã — object — see also that
• ǃXóõ: ìh — object — see also that
• Belarusian: гэ́та (héta) — subject of impersonal statement
• Dutch: het — subject of impersonal statement
• Faroese: tað — subject of impersonal statement
• French: ce — subject of impersonal statement
• German: es — subject of impersonal statement
• Hebrew: זה (ze) — subject of impersonal statement
• Irish: sé — subject of impersonal statement
• Latin: id — subject of impersonal statement
• Latin: illud — subject of impersonal statement
• Latin: hoc — subject of impersonal statement
• Russian: э́то (éto) — subject of impersonal statement
• Swedish: det — subject of impersonal statement
• Ukrainian: це (ce) — subject of impersonal statement
• Zulu: khona — subject of impersonal statement
• Dutch: het — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Dutch: ze — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Dutch: hem — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• French: il — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• French: ça — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Galician: el — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• German: es — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Latin: id — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Latin: illud — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Latin: hoc — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Low German: et — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Low German: het — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Swedish: det — impersonal pronoun, used without referent
• Dutch: het — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• French: ce — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• French: ça — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• French: cela — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• Galician: el — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• Latin: id — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• Latin: illud — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder
• Latin: hoc — impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder