teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Alternative forms

• teen-ager

Etymology

teenage +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. A person between 13 and 19 years old.

   Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

Hypernyms

• adolescent

Synonyms

• teen

Coordinate terms

• vicenarian (20–29)
• twentysomething (20–29)
• tricenarian (30–39)
• thirtysomething (30–39)
• quadragenarian (40–49)
• fortysomething (40–49)
• quinquagenarian (50–59)
• semicentenarian (50–59)
• fiftysomething (50–59)
• sexagenarian (60–69)
• sixtysomething (60–69)
• septuagenarian (70–79)
• seventysomething (70–79)
• octogenarian (80–89)
• eightysomething (80–89)
• nonagenarian (90–99)
• ninetysomething (90–99)
• centenarian (100–199)
• hundredsomething (100–199)

 

Descendants

• → Danish: teenager
• → French: teenager
• → Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
• → Russian: тине́йджер (tinéjdžer)
• → Spanish: teenager

Translations

person aged between thirteen and nineteen

• Afrikaans: tiener
• Albanian: ri (sq)
• Arabic: مُرَاهِق‎ m (murāhiq)
• Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani), թինեյջեր (hy) (tʿineyǰer)
• Bashkir: үҫмер (üθmer)
• Belarusian: падле́так m (padljétak)
• Bulgarian: тийне́йджър m (tijnéjdžǎr)
• Catalan: adolescent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 少年 (zh) (shàonián), 青少年 (zh) (qīngshàonián)

• Cornish: degowek m, degowoges f
• Crimean Tatar: ösmür
• Czech: výrostek, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m, dospívající m, teenager
• Danish: teenager (da) c
• Dutch: tiener (nl), adolescent (nl) m, puber (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: dekkelkjarulo, plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino, adoleskulo, adoleskanto
• Estonian: teismeline, noor (et)
• Faroese: tannáringur (fo) m
• Finnish: teini-ikäinen (fi)
• French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f, ado (fr) m or f
• Galician: adolescente (gl) m or f, rapaz (gl) m, rapazolo m, mozo (gl) m, rapazola f, rapariga f, rapaza f, moza f
• Georgian: მოზარდი (mozardi), თინეიჯერი (tineiǯeri)
• German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f
• Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos), έφηβη (el) f (éfivi)
• Greenlandic: inuusuttuaraq
• Hungarian: serdülő (hu), tini (hu), tinédzser (hu), tizenéves (hu), kamasz (hu)
• Icelandic: táningur (is) m, unglingur (is) m
• Indonesian: anak belasan tahun
• Irish: déagóir m, déagóirí pl
• Italian: giovane (it) c, adolescente (it), ragazzino (it) m, ragazzina (it) f
• Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā), ティーンエイジャー (tīn'eijā), 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen)

• Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo), 십대 (ko) (sipdae), 10대 (10dae)
• Lao: ໄວຫນຸ່ມ (wai num)
• Latin: iuvenis (la) c, iuventus m, iuventa f
• Latvian: pusaudzis m, pusaudze f, tīnis m, tīne f
• Macedonian: тинејџе́р m (tinejdžér), тинејџе́рка f (tinejdžérka)
• Malay: remaja
• Maori: taitamariki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tenåring (no) m

  Nynorsk: tenåring m

• Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: adolescente (pt)
• Romagnol: adulescént m
• Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f
• Russian: подро́сток (ru) m (podróstok), тине́йджер (ru) m (tinɛ́jdžer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: младићство, омладина, тинејџер m

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

• Sotho: motjha (st)
• Spanish: adolescente (es), puberto m (colloquial, Mexico)
• Swahili: kijana (sw)
• Swedish: tonåring (sv) c
• Tagalog: lalabintaunin
• Thai: วัยรุ่น (th) (wai rûn)
• Turkish: genç (tr)
• Ukrainian: підлі́ток (uk) m (pidlítok)
• Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi)
• Welsh: plentyn yn ei arddegau m, person yn ei arddegau m, person ifanc yn ei arddegau m, arddegyn m
• Yiddish: צענערלינג‎ m (tsenerling)
• Zazaki: genc

Anagrams

• generate, green tea, renegate

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Danish

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

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French

Etymology

From English teenager.

Noun

teenager m or f (plural teenagers)

1. teenager

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiˈneiʝeɾ/, [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʝeɾ/, [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tiˈneiʃeɾ/, [t̪iˈnei̯.ʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʒeɾ/, [t̪iˈnei̯.ʒeɾ]

Noun

teenager m or f (plural teenagers or teenager)

1. teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)

   Synonym: adolescente

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.