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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.5 Anagrams 2 Basque 2.1 Noun 3 Catalan 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Pronoun 3.3 Etymology 3 3.3.1 Noun 4 Classical Nahuatl 4.1 Pronoun 5 Danish 5.1 Alternative forms 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Etymology 1 5.3.1 Noun 5.3.1.1 Inflection 5.4 Etymology 2 5.4.1 Verb 6 Dutch 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Adverb 6.3 Preposition 6.4 Article 6.4.1 Usage notes 7 Estonian 7.1 Pronoun 8 Ewe 8.1 Noun 8.2 Preposition 8.3 Verb 9 Faroese 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Noun 9.2.1 Declension 10 Finnish 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Pronoun 10.2.1 Declension 10.2.2 Usage notes 10.2.3 Synonyms 10.2.4 Derived terms 10.3 See also 10.4 Anagrams 11 French 11.1 Pronunciation 11.2 Pronoun 11.2.1 Related terms 11.3 Anagrams 12 Galician 12.1 Etymology 12.2 Pronoun 12.3 See also 13 Haitian Creole 13.1 Etymology 13.2 Adverb 14 Hungarian 14.1 Etymology 14.2 Pronunciation 14.3 Pronoun 14.3.1 Declension 14.3.2 See also 15 Icelandic 15.1 Noun 15.1.1 Derived terms 16 Irish 16.1 Pronunciation 16.2 Adjective 16.2.1 Mutation 17 Italian 17.1 Pronoun 17.1.1 See also 18 Japanese 18.1 Noun 19 Lojban 19.1 Cmavo 20 Mandarin 20.1 Pinyin syllable 20.1.1 Usage notes 21 Maori 21.1 Article 22 Meriam 22.1 Noun 23 Norwegian 23.1 Noun 24 Romani 24.1 Conjunction 25 Romanian 25.1 Pronoun 25.1.1 See also 26 Serbo-Croatian 26.1 Pronoun 26.1.1 Declension 27 Spanish 27.1 Etymology 1 27.1.1 Noun 27.2 Etymology 2 27.2.1 Pronoun 27.2.1.1 See also 28 Swedish 28.1 Pronunciation 28.2 Alternative spellings 28.3 Noun 28.3.1 Homophones 29 Tongan 29.1 Article

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• (North America) ti

[edit] Etymology

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter.

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /ti:/

  Rhymes: -iː

• Homophones: T, tea, tee, ti

[edit] Noun

te (uncountable)

1. (music) In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): si.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: et , ET

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[edit] Basque

[edit] Noun

te

1. tea.

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[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

te f. (plural tes)

1. The Latin letter T (lowercase t).

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Pronoun

te 2 sg. weak (reinforced et, elided 't, reduced t')

1. thee; second person weak pronoun

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[edit] Noun

te m. (plural tes)

1. The tea plant; (Camellia sinensis)
2. tea; the product made from the leaves of the tea plant
3. tea; a light afternoon meal at which tea is commonly served

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[edit] Classical Nahuatl

[edit] Pronoun

te

1. Alternative spelling of teh.

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Alternative forms

• the (unofficial since 1872, but still common)

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /teː/, [tˢeːˀ]

[edit] Etymology 1

From Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê), “‘tea’”).

[edit] Noun

te c. (singular definite teen, plural indefinite teer)

1. tea

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Norse tjá.

[edit] Verb

te (imperative te, infinitive at te, present tense ter, past tense teede, past participle har teet)

1. behave

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: [tə]
• X-SAMPA: [t@]

[edit] Adverb

te

1. indicating excess: too

   Te veel is nooit goed — too much is never good

   te gek! — far out!

[edit] Preposition

te

1. (modifying an infinitive verb) to

   Er is iets te eten — there is something to eat

2. (archaic) located at, in

   Te Amsterdam: in Amsterdam.

[edit] Article

te

1. (archaic) in idiom; a form of the definite article de

   Te drommel — by Jove.

[edit] Usage notes

This preposition used to govern the dative case. It also fused with the dative forms of the definite article:

• (at, in) ter = te + der for feminine singular.
• (at, in) ten = te + den in all other cases.

Combinations with the nominative form of the article, like *te het or *te de have never become part of the language. The collapse of the inflection system and the related demise of the distinction between masculine and feminine gender (for most speakers) has pushed this preposition into partial disuse. It does however occur in a fair number of idiomatic expressions, often with fossilized case endings, e.g.:

te elfder ure. — at the eleventh hour.

te eigen bate — for one's own profit.

(Elfder, ure and bate are dative forms of elfde, uur and baat resp.)

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[edit] Estonian

[edit] Pronoun

te (short form of teie)

1. you (plural and polite form).

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[edit] Ewe

[edit] Noun

te

1. paternal aunt
2. yam

[edit] Preposition

te

1. under

[edit] Verb

te

1. to compact
2. to compress
3. to sting
4. to swell

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[edit] Faroese

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [teː]

[edit] Noun

te n. sg.

1. tea

[edit] Declension

n4s	Singular
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	te	teið
Accusative	te	teið
Dative	te(i)	tenum
Genitive	tes	tesins

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: te
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA: [te]

[edit] Pronoun

te (stem tei-)

1. (personal) you (second-person plural; when addressing many persons or when addressing politely or formally one person).

[edit] Declension

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, te and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, teidät.

Declension of te noun case singular plural nominative sinä te genitive sinun teidän partitive sinua teitä accusative sinut teidät inessive sinussa teissä elative sinusta teistä illative sinuun teihin adessive sinulla teillä ablative sinulta teiltä allative sinulle teille essive sinuna teinä translative sinuksi teiksi instructive – – abessive sinutta teittä comitative – –

[edit] Usage notes

• Depending on the context, the pronoun can sometimes be omitted in written language if the text remains fluent – the pronoun is in spoken language practically always used (cf. the usage of sinä, "you" (sg.)).
• When addressing politely or formally one person in a written form, it is recommendable to capitalize the pronoun, Te, for politeness purposes.
• When addressing one person, the active past participle must be singular in negative past indicative, in present perfect of all moods both affirmative and negative and past perfect indicative — because there is one person addressed:

• Te ette ollut täällä silloin. (negative past indicative)
  • You were not here at that time.
• Te olette ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect indicative)
  • You have been here at that time.
• Te ette ole ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect indicative)
  • You have not been here at that time.
• Te olisitte ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect conditional)
  • You would have been here at that time.
• Te ette olisi ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect conditional)
  • You would have not been here at that time.
• Te lienette ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect potential)
  • You have probably been here at that time.
• Te ette liene ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect potential)
  • You haven't probably been here at that time.
• Te olitte ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative past perfect indicative)
  • You had been here at that time.
• Te ette ollut ollut täällä silloin. (negative past perfect indicative; note ollut twice)
  • You had not been here at that time.

[edit] Synonyms

• tet (dialectal)
• työ (dialectal)

[edit] Derived terms

• verbs: teititellä

[edit] See also

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• me
• he

[edit] Anagrams

• et

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /tə/

[edit] Pronoun

Aiwoo

1. (direct object) You.

   Il te cite souvent.: He often quotes you.

2. (indirect object) You.

   Il te donne le livre.: He gives you the book.

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[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: et

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin tē, dative singular form of tū.

[edit] Pronoun

te accusative (nominative ti, oblique ti, dative che)

1. you (singular second-person personal pronoun)
2. yourself (reflexive singular second-person personal pronoun)

[edit] See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• che
• contigo
• ti
• teu

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French été (“‘been’”)

[edit] Adverb

te

1. indicates the past or pluperfect tense.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

From the same Uralic root *te as Finnish sinä.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɛ/
•  Audio^{help, file}

[edit] Pronoun

te

1. (personal) you (second-person singular, nominative, informal form)

[edit] Declension

declension of te nominative te accusative téged dative neked instrumental veled causal-final érted inessive benned superessive rajtad adessive nálad illative beléd sublative rád allative hozzád elative belőled delative rólad ablative tőled

[edit] See also

• maga (formal)
• ön (formal)

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[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Noun

te n. (te-s)

1. tea

[edit] Derived terms

• grænt te n.
• tebolli m.
• tehetta f.
• teketill m.
• tepottur m.
• tesía f.
• teskeið f.

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [tʲɛ]

[edit] Adjective

te (plural teo, comparative teo)

1. warm
2. hot

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
te	the	dte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronoun

te

1. (emphasised objective of tu) you

[edit] See also

• ti
• tè

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

te (hiragana て)

1. 手: hand
2. て: hiragana character te
3. テ: katakana character te

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

te (rafsi ter)

1. refers to the x3 sumti of the following word

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

te

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having the tone, tè.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Maori

[edit] Article

te

1. the, the definite article, singular. (Plural: ngā)

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[edit] Meriam

[edit] Noun

te

1. mouth
2. door

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Noun

te c.

1. tea.

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[edit] Romani

[edit] Conjunction

te

1. if

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronoun

te (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

   ştii cât de mult te iubeşte? - do you know how much he loves you?

[edit] See also

• tine
• te rog

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronoun

te (Cyrillic spelling те)

1. of you (clitic genitive singular of tȋ (“‘you’”))
2. you (clitic accusative singular of tȋ (“‘you’”))

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

te f. (plural tes)

1. Name of the letter t.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Latin te, accusative of tu

[edit] Pronoun

te

1. you (familiar objective case form)

   Te voy a hacer tus calzones.... — I’m going to make your britches (from the song La Cucaracha)

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

[edit] Alternative spellings

• the, thé

[edit] Noun

Inflection for te	Singular		Plural
Neuter	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	te	teet	teer	teerna
Genitive	tes	teets	teers	teernas

te IPA: /teː/

1. tea.

[edit] Homophones

• T, t

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[edit] Tongan

[edit] Article

te

1. the (the definite article)