t

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t U+0074, t
LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← s
[U+0073] 		Basic Latin u →
[U+0075]
ｔ U+FF54, ｔ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← ｓ
[U+FF53] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｕ →
[U+FF55]

Translingual[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(file)

Symbol[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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t

  1. (IPA) voiceless alveolar plosive.
  2. (mathematics, physics) time
  3. tonne
  4. (manufacturing) thickness
    0.7 mmt

Usage notes[edit]

  • As a symbol meaning "time", t is italicised in print; for example, "the position at time t is x".

See also[edit]

  • (IPA): d (“voiced alveolar plosive”)

Other representations of T:

Gallery[edit]

  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type

    Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

    Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

  • Uppercase and lowercase T in sans-serif and serif font

    Uppercase and lowercase T in sans-serif and serif font

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /tiː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/
  • (main allophones): IPA(key): [tʰ], [t], [t̬], [ɾ], [ʔ]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T, plural ts or t's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
See also[edit]

Number[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2[edit]

Abbreviations.

t

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of at
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of to and homophone too.

Noun[edit]

t (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.
  3. (UK) Alternative letter-case form of T, tonne.
  4. (historical) Abbreviation of tomin.
Alternative forms[edit]

Afar[edit]

Letter[edit]

t

  1. The third letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t lower case (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

Noun[edit]

t

  1. ton

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also[edit]

  • Previous letter: s
  • Next letter: u

See also[edit]

Egyptian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

t
X2		 X4
Z2

 m

  1. bread

Inflection[edit]

Declension of t (masculine)
singular t
dual twj
plural tw

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of t  
X2
t

Derived terms[edit]

Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Faroese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Noun[edit]

t

  1. Abbreviation of tavu.

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
      His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

Contraction[edit]

t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Informal spelling of t'es
    t ou? ― wya?
    t pas chez toi? ― ur not home?
    t vrmt nul! ― u rly suck!

See also[edit]

Fula[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes[edit]

See also[edit]

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

t

  1. Romanization of 𐍄

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈt]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈteː]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative t t-k
accusative t-t t-ket
dative t-nek t-knek
instrumental t-vel t-kkel
causal-final t-ért t-kért
translative t-vé t-kké
terminative t-ig t-kig
essive-formal t-ként t-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive t-ben t-kben
superessive t-n t-ken
adessive t-nél t-knél
illative t-be t-kbe
sublative t-re t-kre
allative t-hez t-khez
elative t-ből t-kből
delative t-ről t-kről
ablative t-től t-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		t-é t-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		t-éi t-kéi
Possessive forms of t
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. t-m t-im
2nd person sing. t-d t-id
3rd person sing. t-je t-i
1st person plural t-nk t-ink
2nd person plural t-tek t-itek
3rd person plural t-jük t-ik

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • t in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ido[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /t/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /te/

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Italian[edit]

Letter[edit]

t f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case T)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Latin[edit]

Letter[edit]

t

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

References[edit]

Latvian[edit]

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology[edit]

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Letter[edit]

T

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Livonian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Maltese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t/
  • IPA(key): /d/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
  • Audio(file)

Letter[edit]

t

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
  • Audio(file)

Letter[edit]

t m (upper case T, definite singular t-en, indefinite plural t-ar, definite plural t-ane)

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.
  2. Something in the shape of a T

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

t

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Abbreviation of tonn.
  3. (music) Abbreviation of tempo.
  4. (music) Abbreviation of tenor.
  5. (historical) Initialism of tilfredsstillande (academic grade).
  6. Abbreviation of tara.
  7. (music) Abbreviation of tonika (“tonic”).

Preposition[edit]

t

  1. (text messaging, informal) Abbreviation of til (“to”).

References[edit]

Nupe[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T, lower case)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Romani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. (International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Saterland Frisian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ət/
  • Hyphenation: t

Article[edit]

t

  1. Unstressed form of dät

References[edit]

  • Pyt Kramer (1996) Kute Seelter Sproakleere‎[1], Mildam, page 10

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • (uppercase) T

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (Cyrillic spelling т)

  1. The 26th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by š and followed by u.

Skolt Sami[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

Noun[edit]

t m or f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of tiempo, time
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, tonelada: ton, Spanish ton, metric ton
  3. (historical) Abbreviation of tomín: tomin, former Spanish unit of currency

Alternative forms[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Swedish alphabet

Declension[edit]

Declension of t 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative t t:et t:n t:na
Genitive ts t:ets t:ns t:nas

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish t. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English t.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish t.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜆ (ta).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: t
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ti/, [tɪ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈte/, [ˈtɛ]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ta/, [tɐ]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, [t]
  • Rhymes: -i, -e, -a

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called ti and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The twenty-third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called te and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ta and written in the Latin script.

Further reading[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Turkmen[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Yoruba[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called tí and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Zulu[edit]

Letter[edit]

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

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