its

Meanings

Pronoun

  • The one (or ones) belonging to it.

Noun

  • Plural of it

Origin

  • Equivalent to it + -'s. From the earlier form it's (it + 's), which is now considered nonstandard. Began to displace his as the possessive of the neuter pronoun in the Middle English period; had fully displaced it by the 1700s.

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