mitt
English
Etymology
Clipping of mitten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪt/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
Noun
mitt (plural mitts)

An oven mitt.
- 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
Faroese
Icelandic
Pronoun
mitt
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Usage notes
- The attributive form is used before counted nouns.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪtː/
- Homophone: midt
Old Norse
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish mitt, from Old Norse miðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪtː/
audio (file)
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
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