teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Alternative forms

• teen-ager

Etymology

teenage +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/

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Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. A person between 13 and 19 years old.

   Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

Synonyms

• See more synonyms at Thesaurus:teenager

Hypernyms

• adolescent

Coordinate terms

• centenarian
• eightysomething
• fiftysomething
• fortysomething
• hundredsomething
• ninetysomething
• nonagenarian
• octogenarian
• quadragenarian
• quinquagenarian
• semicentenarian
• septuagenarian
• seventysomething
• sexagenarian
• sixtysomething
• supercentenarian
• thirtysomething
• tricenarian
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

 

Descendants

• → Danish: teenager
• → French: teenager
• → Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
• → Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)
• → Russian: тине́йджер (tinɛ́jdžer)
• → 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), тынэ́йджэр m (tynéjdžer)
• 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 m, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m, dospívající m, teenager m
• 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: zagalón m, galeote m, 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
• Hindi: गबरू (hi) (gabrū), किशोर (hi) (kiśor), नौख़ेज़ जवान (nauxez javān), नौख़ेज़ लड़का (nauxez laṛkā), नौख़ेज़ लड़की (nauxez laṛkī), नौखेज लड़का (naukhej laṛkā), नौखेज लड़की (naukhej laṛkī), नौख़ेज़ (nauxez), नौखेज (naukhej)
• 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), 十代 (ja) (じゅうだい, jūdai)
• Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo), 십대(十代) (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: тинејџер m (tinejdžer), тинејџерка f (tinejdžerka)
• Malay: remaja
• Maori: taitamariki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tenåring (no) m

  Nynorsk: tenåring m

• Persian: نُوْجَوان‎ (fa) (nowjavân)
• 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: тѝнејџер m

  Roman: tìnejdžer (sh) m

• Slovak: tínedžer m
• Slovene: najstnik 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), тіне́йджер m (tinéjdžer)
• 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

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English teenager.

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

1. teenager

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]

• Rhymes: -eiʝeɾ

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (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.