Its in Different Languages
Discover 'Its' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Its
Afrikaans sy | ||
Albanian e saj | ||
Amharic የእሱ | ||
Arabic انها | ||
Armenian իր | ||
Assamese ইয়াৰ | ||
Aymara jupana | ||
Azerbaijani onun | ||
Bambara a | ||
Basque bere | ||
Belarusian яго | ||
Bengali এটি | ||
Bhojpuri इसका | ||
Bosnian svoje | ||
Bulgarian си | ||
Catalan la seva | ||
Cebuano kini | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 它的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 它的 | ||
Corsican u so | ||
Croatian svoje | ||
Czech své | ||
Danish dens | ||
Dhivehi އެއީ | ||
Dogri एहदा | ||
Dutch haar | ||
English its | ||
Esperanto ĝia | ||
Estonian selle | ||
Ewe enye | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) nito | ||
Finnish sen | ||
French ses | ||
Frisian its | ||
Galician a súa | ||
Georgian მისი | ||
German es ist | ||
Greek του | ||
Guarani ha'e | ||
Gujarati તેના | ||
Haitian Creole li yo | ||
Hausa ta | ||
Hawaiian kāna | ||
Hebrew שֶׁלָה | ||
Hindi आईटी इस | ||
Hmong nws | ||
Hungarian annak | ||
Icelandic þess | ||
Igbo ya | ||
Ilocano dayta ket | ||
Indonesian -nya | ||
Irish a | ||
Italian suo | ||
Japanese その | ||
Javanese sawijining | ||
Kannada ಅದರ | ||
Kazakh оның | ||
Khmer របស់វា | ||
Kinyarwanda yayo | ||
Konkani तें | ||
Korean 이것의 | ||
Krio i na | ||
Kurdish xwe | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئەو | ||
Kyrgyz анын | ||
Lao ຂອງມັນ | ||
Latin eius | ||
Latvian tā | ||
Lingala eza | ||
Lithuanian jos | ||
Luganda kili | ||
Luxembourgish seng | ||
Macedonian нејзините | ||
Maithili इ अछि | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay itu | ||
Malayalam അതിന്റെ | ||
Maltese tagħha | ||
Maori ona | ||
Marathi त्याचा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯁꯤ | ||
Mizo chu chu | ||
Mongolian түүний | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) င်း | ||
Nepali यसको | ||
Norwegian det er | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zake | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଏହାର | ||
Oromo inni ...dha | ||
Pashto د | ||
Persian آن است | ||
Polish jego | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) está | ||
Punjabi ਇਸ ਨੂੰ | ||
Quechua its | ||
Romanian este | ||
Russian его | ||
Samoan ana | ||
Sanskrit अयं अस्ति | ||
Scots Gaelic a | ||
Sepedi ke | ||
Serbian његово | ||
Sesotho ea eona | ||
Shona zvayo | ||
Sindhi اهو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එය | ||
Slovak jeho | ||
Slovenian svoje | ||
Somali ay | ||
Spanish sus | ||
Sundanese na | ||
Swahili yake | ||
Swedish dess | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) nito | ||
Tajik он | ||
Tamil அதன் | ||
Tatar аның | ||
Telugu దాని | ||
Thai ของมัน | ||
Tigrinya ናቱ | ||
Tsonga i | ||
Turkish onun | ||
Turkmen bu | ||
Twi (Akan) ɛyɛ | ||
Ukrainian його | ||
Urdu اس کے | ||
Uyghur its | ||
Uzbek uning | ||
Vietnamese nó là | ||
Welsh ei | ||
Xhosa yayo | ||
Yiddish זייַן | ||
Yoruba rẹ | ||
Zulu its |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "sy" in Afrikaans can also mean "she" or "her" in some contexts. |
| Albanian | The Albanian possessive pronoun "i saj" is also used in the sense of the pronoun "her" in contexts where there is a third-person feminine subject. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "የእሱ" (its) also means "his" or "hers" when used to refer to objects. |
| Arabic | 'انها' is also short for 'انها ل...' (Surely...)} |
| Armenian | The word 'իր' in Armenian also means 'his', 'her', or 'their' depending on the context. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "onun" in Azerbaijani can also mean "his" or "her" in some contexts. |
| Basque | The Basque word "bere" can also mean "his" or "her", depending on the context. |
| Belarusian | It is believed that "яго" is derived from the Slavic root "jь", meaning "he","she" or "it". Later, in Old Belarusian, the word "его" was used meaning "him", "her" or "it", while "яго" was used when referring to something inanimate. |
| Bengali | The word "এটি" can also be used to refer to a particular part of something or to emphasize the importance of something. |
| Bosnian | The word "svoje" can also mean "own" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "си" ("its") in Bulgarian is also a reflexive pronoun, indicating that the action of a verb is directed towards the subject. |
| Catalan | 'La seva' can refer to 'his', 'her' or 'its' in Catalan depending on context. |
| Cebuano | Kini is a Cebuano word that can also mean "now" or "this". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 它 (Simplified) can also refer to an abstract idea or an inanimate object as the subject or object of a sentence, similar to the English "it". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, 它 can also refer to a person's appearance, such as facial features or overall demeanor. |
| Corsican | Like in many other Romance languages, the Corsican word "u so" can also mean "the ground". |
| Croatian | The word "svoje" in Croatian also means "own" or "belonging to oneself". |
| Czech | Své' also means 'his' and 'her' and is used when referring to a masculine or feminine third person singular noun. |
| Danish | In Danish, "dens" is an antiquated form of the possessive pronoun "dets", meaning "its" or "its own". |
| Dutch | In some Dutch dialects "haar" can also refer to a woman's hair |
| Esperanto | The word "ĝia" in Esperanto can also refer to "of him" or "of her". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "selle" is derived from the Proto-Uralic word "*tälä", and it has cognates in other Uralic languages such as "tämä" in Finnish and "этот" in Russian. |
| Finnish | The word "sen" can also mean "you" in the singular, when used in the possessive form in the 3rd person singular. |
| French | The word "ses" in French can also be used to mean "his" or "her" in the plural, and it is derived from the Latin word "suus". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "its" can also mean "its own" or "of it." |
| Galician | In Galician, "a súa" can also mean "her" or "his" in the singular form. |
| Georgian | The word "მისი" can also be used to refer to a person's sister. |
| German | Es ist is an archaic genitive form of es and the third-person singular form of the verb sein. |
| Greek | Το "του" μπορεί να αναφέρεται σε αντικείμενα που ανήκουν σε αρσενικά όντα καθώς και σε αντικείμενα που ανήκουν σε ουδέτερα όντα (π.χ. το σπίτι του, η ώρα του). |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "તેના" is also used to denote possession and may translate to "his," "her," or "their" in English. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "li yo" in Haitian Creole can also mean "its" or "his". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, 'ta' can also refer to 'theirs' for a group of people. |
| Hawaiian | Kāna can also mean 'belonging to', 'pertaining to', or 'that which belongs to'. |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew grammar, שֶׁלָה ("its") also functions as a prepositional phrase meaning "of," "belonging to." |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "आईटी इस" can also refer to "this". |
| Hmong | The word "nws" in Hmong can also mean "his" or "her". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "annak" (its) can also mean "to that" or "for that" depending on context. |
| Icelandic | The form "þess" used in possessive pronouns is derived from the neuter of the Old Norse demonstrative pronoun "þessi" |
| Igbo | In certain northern Igbo dialects, "ya" can also refer to "his" or "her". |
| Indonesian | -nya is also a possessive pronoun with a neutral gender (neither "he/she"/"his/her" nor "it" but combining all). |
| Irish | The Irish word 'a', meaning 'its', can also mean 'of it' or 'from it'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "suo" also means "his" or "her" in cases where the gender of the subject is unspecified. |
| Japanese | The word "その" can also refer to "that", "this", or "the one in question" depending on the context. |
| Javanese | "Sawiijining" can also mean "one of them" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | It originates from the Sanskrit word 'asya', which refers to belonging or ownership. |
| Kazakh | "Оның" (its) also means "of him/her" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | របស់វា can also refer to the subject's property, or the subject itself. |
| Korean | "이것의" can also mean "this one's" or "the one of this". |
| Kurdish | 'Xwe' also means 'self' or 'own' in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | "Анын" may also refer to "his" or "her" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | In Lao the word "ຂອງມັນ" can also mean "of theirs" or "of that person's" depending on context. |
| Latin | The Latin word "eius" can refer to a possessive, an objective, or a dative case with several different meanings depending on the context. |
| Latvian | "Tā" in Latvian is derived from the Old Prussian "tan" and the Proto-Baltic "tā\i". It shares a root with the Lithuanian "ta" meaning "it" as well as with the Slavic "ta". |
| Lithuanian | The word "jos" also means "if" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "seng" in Luxembourgish also means "since" and "ago". |
| Macedonian | In the Slavic languages its form is the same as the possessive pronoun of the third person singular feminine gender, her, but in the other Indo-European languages it is a different form. |
| Malagasy | The word "ny" in Malagasy can also mean "his" or "her" depending on the context. |
| Malay | The word "itu" in Malay can also mean "that" or "it is" |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, “അതിന്റെ” can mean “to that” and “concerning that” in addition to “its”. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tagħha" can also be used as a possessive form of the personal pronoun "hi" (she, her). |
| Maori | "Ona" in Maori, the passive form in transitive verbs like "ki te tangata e whakarite" (it is being prepared by the person). |
| Marathi | त्याचा means "its" in Marathi, and derives from the Sanskrit word "tasya". |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, "түүний" has two meanings: "its" and "his/her." |
| Nepali | It also means "mine" when used in the sense of possession, such as "यो मेरो यसको छ" (this is mine). |
| Norwegian | Det er also means 'the matter is' in Norwegian, e.g. "det er klart" ("it is clear"). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zake" can also mean "his" or "hers" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "د" ("its") originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*is-o," meaning "belonging to"} |
| Persian | The Persian word for "its" (آن است) is also used as a demonstrative pronoun, meaning "that." |
| Polish | The word "jego" can also mean "him" or "his" and is declined according to the grammatical case. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In some varieties of Brazilian Portuguese "está" can also be used to replace "ele", "ela", and "você", which means "he", "she", and "you" respectively. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "este" also means "is" in Romanian. |
| Russian | Russian "его" derives from Old East Slavic "егоже" which has the same meaning but in addition refers to "him" (dat.) and "him, that" (gen.). |
| Samoan | The word “ana”, meaning “its” in Samoan, can also mean “theirs” and “his”/“hers” depending on context. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "a" can also mean "he," "she," or "it". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "његово" has a secondary meaning of "his", and is often used when referencing an object as masculine and singular. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "ea eona" can also mean "his" or "her" in certain contexts. |
| Shona | "Zvayo" also means "its" in the sense of "his/her/their" in phrases like "zvayo" imba (his/her/their house). |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اهو" can also mean "here" or "this". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In addition to meaning "its", "එය" also means "that" and "there." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word 'jeho' can also refer to the reflexive pronoun 'himself' or the possessive pronoun 'his'. |
| Slovenian | The word "svoje" can also refer to "own" or "beloved" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | In Somali, the word "ay" can also mean "him" or "her" depending on the context. |
| Spanish | In Latin, "sus" means "pig," and in old Spanish, it meant "up" |
| Sundanese | The word "na" can also be used as a possessive pronoun, meaning "its" or "his/her/their." |
| Swahili | This term, 'yake', may also be found in other expressions such as 'kwenye nyumba yake' ('in its house') or 'mtoto wake' ('its child'). |
| Swedish | "Dets" is a more formal version of "dess" and is still used to some extent in written Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In the ancient Tagalog numbering system, the word "nito" meant "one thousand." |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "он" can also mean "there" or "that", and it is derived from the Proto-Iranian "*hâ-na". |
| Tamil | The word 'அதன்' in Tamil can also mean 'that which' or 'the one that' when used in certain contexts. |
| Telugu | దాని is a possessive pronoun that can also mean "there" or "then". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ของมัน" literally means "thing of it", where "มัน" (it) can refer to a specific person, animal, or thing. |
| Turkish | "Onun" can also mean "his" or "her" in Turkish, depending on the context. |
| Ukrainian | The word "його" can also be used in the sense of "his" or "hers" when referring to a male or female antecedent. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, اس کے does not only mean "its," but also "of him/her/it" or "of this/that." |
| Uzbek | "Uning" in Uzbek also means "his/her/their" and "of it, of him, of her, of them". |
| Vietnamese | Besides its primary meaning, "nó là" can also be used as a pronoun meaning "they are." |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "ei", meaning "its", derives from the Old Welsh word "hi", meaning "he" or "she". |
| Xhosa | Yayo can also mean 'in order to' and 'after' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זייַן" ("its") is derived from the Hebrew word "שֶׁלָּהּ" ("shellah") and can also mean "hers" or "his" when used with a feminine or masculine noun, respectively. |
| Yoruba | The word "rẹ" (its) in Yoruba also means "him, her" in the third person singular. |
| Zulu | The word "its" is often used in Zulu to indicate the possessive form of a noun, but it can also be used to refer to the third person singular object pronoun. |
| English | The possessive pronoun 'its' derives from Middle English "his," which was originally both the genitive and possessive of 'he' and 'it' before becoming 'his' during the early modern English period. |