teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Wikipedia

Etymology

See teenage.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn.ˌeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

teenager ‎(plural teenagers)

1. A person between 13 and 19 years of age; 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 (sq)
• Arabic: مُرَاهِق m ‎(murāhiq)
• Armenian: պատանի (hy) ‎(patani)
• 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)

• Crimean Tatar: ösmür
• Czech: výrostek, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m
• Danish: teenager (da) c
• Dutch: tiener (nl), adolescent (nl) m, puber (nl) m, f, teenager m, f
• Esperanto: plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino
• Estonian: teismeline
• Faroese: tannáringur m
• Finnish: teini-ikäinen
• French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f
• Georgian: მოზარდი ‎(mozardi), თინეიჯერი ‎(tineiǯeri)
• German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f
• Greek: έφηβος (el) m ‎(éfivos), έφηβη (el) f ‎(éfivi)
• 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: giovincello, 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: puer (la) m
• Latvian: pusaudzis
• Macedonian: тинејџе́р m ‎(tinejdžér), тинејџе́рка 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: 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)
• Swahili: kijana (sw)
• Swedish: tonåring (sv) c
• Tagalog: lalabintaunin
• Thai: วัยรุ่น (th) ‎(wai rûn)
• Turkish: genç (tr)
• Ukrainian: підлі́ток m ‎(pidlítok)
• Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi)
• Welsh: llefnyn
• Yiddish: צענערלינג m ‎(tsenerling)
• Zazaki: genc

Anagrams

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Danish

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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

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French

Noun

teenager m, f ‎(plural teenagers)

1. teenager