Learn English – It’s too cute! But what is “it”

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Sometime on the Internet we see some cute cat doing some cute things:

A cute cat doing cute things

And because of that, an English speaker will say: It's too cute.

Because I'm French, and in French we have no good equivalent for 'it', I wonder…

Does the 'it' stand for:

  • The cat.
  • The situation (what the cat is actually doing).

In French we will respectively say:

  • Il/Elle est trop mignon/mignonne (depending if the cat is a He (default) or a She).
  • C'est trop mignon (the 'C' standing for the situation)

Finally what will be the correct translation for the two phrase below ?

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A simple way to give a response to my question will be to put it plural, what did you say when you see this:

Two cutes cats doing cute things

  • They are too cute. (the cats)
  • It's too cute. (the situation)

Best Answer

Either. An animal of unknown gender is it.

  • Look at the cat, it's so cute.
  • Look at what the cat does. It's the cutest thing I have seen.
  • Look at the picture, it's cute.

The translations would be

  • It is too cute (the cat, any gender) and
  • It is too cute (the situation).

You can use This/That is too cute to emphasize the situation though.

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