is it
See also: isit
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(ˈ)ɪz ɪt/
Audio (US): (file)
Interjection
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see is, it.
- - It's ten o'clock already.
- - Is it?
- (Canada, South Africa, India, MLE, MTE) really? is that so?
- - I'm feeling tired.
- - Is it?
- 2007, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" on Angles
- Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by saying "is it?"
- 2011 July 31, James Ashcroft, Making A Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq, Random House, →ISBN, page 80:
- 'Everyone just calls me Ash.'
'Izzit?' said Hendriks, and he fixed me with his cold grey eyes. Spartan at that time was unusual in that it would only take on ex-army South Africans.
Translations
Translations
Particle
- (Singapore, Malaysia, Wales) Final interrogative particle forming a tag question.
- You forgot, is it?
- 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 187:
- "I mean what now - the bet is cancelled but they are both going to ask her, is it?"
- 2010, Neil Humphreys, chapter 10, in Match Fixer, Marshall Cavendish International, →ISBN, page 112:
- Fame gone to your head, is it?
- 2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 1, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Hachette, →ISBN, page 15:
- So short-lah, the chopstick. For children is it?
Usage notes
In contrast to the neutral or not, questions formed with is it expect an affirmative response.