How to refer to a person as an 'It'


In english you can call objects an 'it', as well as people, and generally seen
as rude to call a person an 'it'. Is it possible for something similar to be
done in japanese? Call a person an 'it'?

If not, is there a way of addressing/ talking about someone that invokes the
same feeling of 'i see this person as an object'?




Well, if you don't want the risk of sounding unnatural, こいつ/やつ are pronouns
that can be used for both people and objects, and they are quite disrespectful
as well. You can further write those pronouns in katakana to emphasize the
distance between you (or whoever) and the object-person. (katakana can both
express intimacy and stiffness/foreignness, usually by context you can
determine which is which)

You could also emphasize the dynamic between (whoever) and the object-person
by using を more frequently than が in places where they're interchangeable,
[since を implies more control over an object in a sentence according to
IMABI](https://www.imabi.net/gavswo.htm)

Most other advices I could give involve niche sentence structure changes or
grammatical changes like the one I just gave you. I'm not sure there's an easy
way to convey the same feeling of "it" in Japanese, to be honest.

