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!
Derived terms
Translations
mitten — see mitten
oversized, protective glove
See also
Faroese
Adverb
mitt
Icelandic
Determiner
mitt
- nominative/accusative neuter singular of minn (“my/mine”)
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
100 | ||
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10[a], [b] | ||
Cardinal: mija Attributive cardinal: mitt |
Numeral
mitt m or f
- attributive form of mija (“hundred”)
Usage notes
- The attributive form is used before counted nouns.
Etymology 2
Verb
mitt
- first/second-person singular imperfect of miet
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Determiner
mitt n
- neuter singular of min
References
- “mitt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪtː/
- Homophone: midt
Determiner
mitt
- neuter singular of min
References
- “mitt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Adjective
mitt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of miðr
Determiner
mitt n
- neuter nominative/accusative singular of minn
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”)
Noun
mitt c
- a middle (central point or area)
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | mitt | mitts |
definite | mitten | mittens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Pronoun
mitt
Declension
Number | Person | 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, though it remains limited.
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