iets
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch iets.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /its/
Pronoun
iets
- something
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch iet, from Middle Dutch iewet, a contraction of Old Dutch iowiht.The Middle Dutch word is formed out of the articles Old Dutch ie- meaning 'anything', and a second article corresponding with Middle Dutch wicht, 'creature', of which its original meaning likely has been 'thing'. Cognate with Limburgish get, Central Franconian jet, English aught.
In the word, the suffix -s has been shaped under influence of the older Old Dutch niets wherein -s is the ending of an old partitive genitive.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -its
- IPA(key): /its/
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Pronoun
iets
- something
- Mag het iets meer zijn? : May it be something more?
- Mag het iets minder zijn? : May it be something less?
- anything
- Anders nog iets? : Anything else? (literally: anything other still?)
Derived terms
- ietsje
Adverb
iets
- somewhat
Anagrams
- eist
Latvian
Participle
iets (def. ietais)
- gone; indefinite past passive participle of iet
- ar mazo spēkstaciju atbalstu ir iets par tālu ― as for (lit. with) the support for small power plants (it) is gone too far
- atceries kādreiz takas, kas ietas ― remember sometime the paths that were gone (= gone by, traveled)
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of iets
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | iets | ieti | ieta | ietas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | ietu | ietus | ietu | ietas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | ieta | ietu | ietas | ietu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | ietam | ietiem | ietai | ietām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | ietu | ietiem | ietu | ietām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | ietā | ietos | ietā | ietās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||