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adjective
- Belonging to it (used as a possessive adjective, possessive adjective).
- The team on this side of the field and that one over there each has a Captain. I am this one's, you are .
Translations: - Dutch: zijn , haar (Dutch has no genitive of het (it))
- French: le sien , la sienne
- Spanish: suyo m sing, suya f sing, suyos , suyas
pronoun
- Possessive form of it.
- This jar has a lid; this is lid.
Translations: - Dutch: ervan, het ... ervan, de zijne
- French: son , sa , ses
- German: sein , ihr , sein
- Spanish: su , sus
Etymology: Probably by analogy with possesives ending in 's. There is no apostrophe, by analogy with his/hers/yours/etc. and to distinguish the pronoun from the contraction it's. Note that the corresponding Old English and Middle English genitive form is his.
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