mitt
English
Etymology
Clipping of mitten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
Noun
mitt (plural mitts)
- A mitten
- An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
- (informal, especially in the plural) A hand.
- Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!
See also
Faroese
Icelandic
Pronoun
mitt
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Usage notes
- The attributive form is used before counted nouns.
Norwegian Bokmål
References
- “mitt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪtː/
- Homophone: midt
References
- “mitt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish mitt, from Old Norse miðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪtː/
audio (file)
Adverb
mitt (not comparable)
- in the middle (at or around the middle, spatially or more abstractly), (often) right
- Vi befann oss mitt emellan två städer
- We were at around the middle point (literally) / right between two cities
- De befann sig mitt i kaoset
- They were in the middle of (literally) / right in the chaos
- Det var mitt i natten
- It was the middle of the night
- Jag blev slagen mitt i nyllet
- I was punched right in ("in the middle of") the face
Derived terms
- mitt i smeten (“in the thick of things”)
Declension
Declension of mitt | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | mitt | mitten | — | — |
Genitive | mitts | mittens | — | — |
Declension
Swedish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
3Colloquial pronunciation spelling.
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council
References
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