its
- determiner
- /ɪts/
:
su
- Each company has its own set of rules and procedures.
Once they cut the tree off from its roots dead.
- Once they cut the tree off from its roots dead.
- Consciousness plays no part in its free realization.
- The Byzantine Empire with its headquarters in Constantinople.
- It's just, you know, life is doing its thing as well while we're doing ours.
- This is the Cinder Grill, which just finished its campaign on Indiegogo.
- Each has its writer, its director, its actors, and so on and so forth.
- It's the wish and the desire to continue its persistence.
- And so he says, in which it found not only its own self.
Examples
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Because they really do, like a dog chasing its tail, affect each other.
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Let's get this little robot all set up to start its cleaning.
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And I think that that that comes with its own set of challenges.
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And so a gay bar opens its doors on the weekend.
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So each crossing is kept if all four of its endpoints are kept.
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It's the wish and the desire to continue its persistence.
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Consciousness plays no part in its free realization.
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Kind of prepping this vessel for its new plant.
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The Byzantine Empire with its headquarters in Constantinople.
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The cat is grooming its fur after playing outside.
Idioms
- Informal
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4.4
Decide something about a person or thing by how they look
- Informal
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7.1
A person or thing that is much weaker and less impressive than before
- Offensive
To let strong, uncontrolled feelings make your life worse
To become larger and hard to control as it spreads beyond where it started
Surface Forms
Morphology
its = it (transparent) = it + s
The form is the regular possessive realization of 'it', so the connection between base pronoun and meaning is straightforward.
Etymology
Its is the possessive form of it, made by adding the short -s that shows 'belonging to'. Think of it like Sam's or the dog's, but for a thing or animal, so its means 'belonging to it'.