teenager

English

Teenagers.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn.ˌeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. (countable) Literally, a person from thirteen to nineteen who is in their teens; an adolescent.

Usage notes

Sometimes only refers up to the legal minor limit in many countries of eighteen years old, or sometimes only refers up to the point of high school graduation. In the earlier years, sometimes referred to as a youth; in later years, sometimes referred to as a young adult.

Translations

person aged between thirteen and nineteen

• Afrikaans: tiener
• Albanian: ri
• Arabic: مراهق m (muraahiq)
• Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani)
• Bashkir: үҫмер (üθmer)
• Catalan: adolescent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 少年 (zh) (shàonián)

• Czech: výrostek, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m
• Danish: teenager (da) c
• Dutch: tiener (nl)
• Esperanto: plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino
• Estonian: teismeline
• Faroese: tannáringur m
• Finnish: teini-ikäinen
• French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f
• German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f
• Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos), έφηβη (el) f (éfivi)
• Hungarian: serdülő (hu), tini, tinédzser (hu), tizenéves (hu), kamasz (hu)
• Icelandic: táningur (is) m, unglingur (is) m
• Indonesian: anak belasan tahun
• Irish: déagóir m, déagóirí pl
• Italian: giovincello, adolescente (it), ragazzino (it) m, ragazzina (it) f
• Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā), 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen)

• Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)
• Latin: puer (la) m
• Latvian: pusaudzis
• Macedonian: тинејџер m (tinejdžér), тинејџерка f (tinejdžérka)
• Malay: remaja
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tenåring m

  Nynorsk: tenåring m

• Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: adolescente (pt)
• Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f
• Russian: подросток (ru) m (podróstok), тинейджер (ru) m (tinéjdžer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: младићство, омладина, тинејџер m

  Roman: mladićstvo, omladina (sh), tinejdžer (sh) m

• Sotho: motjha (st)
• Spanish: adolescente (es)
• Swahili: kijana (sw)
• Swedish: tonåring (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabataan
• Turkish: genç (tr)
• Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi)
• Welsh: llefnyn
• Yiddish: צענערלינג m (tsenerling)

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Etymology

From English teenager

Noun

teenager c (definite singular teenageren, indefinite plural teenagere or teenagers, definite plural teenagerne)

1. a teenager

References

• “teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog