tante

See also tantē, and Tante

Danish

Etymology

From French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“paternal aunt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tantə/, [ˈtˢand̥ə]

Noun

tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)

1. aunt

Synonyms

• (paternal aunt): faster c
• (maternal aunt): moster c

Inflection

    Inflection of tante

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	tante	tanten	tanter	tanterne
genitive	tantes	tantens	tanters	tanternes

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

tante f (^??? please provide the plural!, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. aunt

Related terms

• oom, (Flemish) nonkel
• neef, nicht

Anagrams

• atten, natte

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French

Etymology

From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /tɑ̃t/, X-SAMPA: /tA~t/

Noun

tante f (plural tantes)

1. aunt
2. (pejorative) homosexual

Synonyms

• tata

Related terms

• oncle, tonton
• cousin, cousine

Anagrams

• entât, étant, natte, tenta

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).

Verb

tante

1. attempt
2. tempt

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Ido

Adverb

tante

1. so

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tante, from Dutch tante.

Noun

tante

1. aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
2. madam

Synonyms

• tanta

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Italian

Adjective

tante f pl

1. feminine plural of tanto

Anagrams

• netta, tenta

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Jèrriais

Noun

tante f (plural tantes)

1. aunt

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Latin

Adjective

tante

1. vocative masculine singular of tantus

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Latvian

Etymology

A borrowing from German Tante ("aunt"), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.

Noun

tante f, 5th declension, masculine form: tēvocis, onkulis

1. aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife)

   dzīvot pie tantes — to live at (one's) aunt's

   tante Betsija — aunt Betsy

2. aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)

   Peterēna vienaudži mani jau uzrunā par tanti — Peterēns (= Little Peter)'s friends called me aunt

   atbrauca inspektors un viena tante no arodbiedrības, veca meita — the inspector came with an aunt from the trade union, an old girl

Declension

declension of tante

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tante	tantes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tanti	tantes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tantes	tanšu
dative (datīvs)	tantei	tantēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tanti	tantēm
locative (lokatīvs)	tantē	tantēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	tante	tantes

Synonyms

• mātesmāsa
• tēamāsa

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Malay

Etymology

From Dutch tante.

Alternative forms

• تنتى

Noun

tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante)

1. (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)

Synonyms

• emak saudara / امق ساودارا
• mak cik / مق چيق

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Norwegian

Noun

tante

1. aunt

Related terms

• onkel
• nevø, niese

Inflection

    Inflection of tante

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	tante	tanteen	tantee	tantene
Bokmål f	tante	tanta	tante/tanter	tantene
Nynorsk f	tante [tanta]	tanta	tanter [tantor]	tantene [tantone]