Jump to content

ten

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ten"
Languages (40)
Translingual • English
Ahtna • Atong (India) • Bislama • Catalan • Cornish • Czech • Danish • Dena'ina • Dutch • Galician • Gilbertese • Jamaican Creole • Japanese • Kabuverdianu • Karaim • Kashubian • Lithuanian • Lower Sorbian • Lower Tanana • Middle Dutch • Middle English • Northern Kurdish • Old Czech • Old English • Old Polish • Old Tupi • Pipil • Polish • Romanian • Scots • Slovak • Spanish • Sranan Tongo • Sumerian • Swedish • Tiang • Tok Pisin • Turkish
Page categories

Translingual

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

Borrowed from English ten.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction.

Etymology 2

[edit]

Symbol

[edit]

ten

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tama (Colombia).

English

[edit]
English numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tenth
    Abbreviated ordinal: 10th
    Latinate ordinal: denary
    Adverbial: ten times
    Multiplier: tenfold
    Latinate multiplier: decuple
    Germanic collective: tensome
    Collective of n parts: decuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade
    Metric collective prefix: deca-
    Greek collective prefix: deca-
    Latinate collective prefix: deca-
    Fractional: tenth
    Metric fractional prefix: deci-
    Elemental: decuplet
    Number of musicians: decet
    Number of years: decade, decennium
    Quantile: decile, decentile
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]
PIE word
*déḱm̥
Ten circles

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Numeral

[edit]

ten

  2. The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
    • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:
      There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
    • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University‎[2], page 1:
      A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
[edit]

Translations

[edit]
See ten/translations § Numeral.

Noun

[edit]

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

  1. A set or group with ten elements.
    We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
    • 1958 May, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392:
      They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
    • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University‎[3], page 1:
      Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.
  2. (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
    Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
    tens of thousands of voters
    • 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN‎[4]:
      No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
  3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
    Synonym: tenner
    Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
  5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
    Synonym: dime piece
    • 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio‎[5]:
      I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.
    • 2023 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine‎[6]:
      An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
  6. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
  7. (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
    • 1911, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486:
      At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
    • 1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history, page 105:
      Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.

Coordinate terms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
Terms derived from the numeral or noun ten
[edit]

Translations

[edit]
To be cleaned up A user suggests that this English entry be cleaned up.
Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) or the talk page for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked‌: "the number following nine"
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

[edit]


Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three, trey four, cater five, cinque six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

Anagrams

[edit]

Ahtna

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Proto-Athabaskan *tən (“ice, frost”). Cognate with Navajo tin.

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. ice

Root

[edit]

ten

  1. to freeze, be frozen
Stem set
[edit]
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Conclusive ten ten ten ten
Momentaneous tiis ten tiił ?
Distributive ten ten ten ten
Customary tiis tiis tiis tiis
Derived terms
[edit]

References

[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

From tene (“trail”)

Root

[edit]

ten

  1. to have a trail
Stem set
[edit]
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Neuter ten tiinʼ tiił tiinʼ

References

[edit]

Etymology 3

[edit]

Root

[edit]

ten

  1. dirt accumulates
Stem set
[edit]
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Neuter ten tiinʼ tiił tiinʼ

References

[edit]

Etymology 4

[edit]

Root

[edit]

ten

  1. to be surfeit, get tired of
Stem set
[edit]
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Conclusive ten ten ten ten
Momentaneous tiis ten tiił tiinʼ
Customary tiis tiis tiis tiis

References

[edit]

Atong (India)

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From English ten.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Numeral

[edit]

ten (Bengali script তেন)

  1. ten

Synonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]

Bislama

[edit]
Bislama numbers (edit)
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten

Etymology

[edit]

From English ten.

Numeral

[edit]

ten

  1. ten

Catalan

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

ten

  1. second-person singular imperative of tenir
  2. second-person singular imperative of tindre

Usage notes

[edit]

Generally, the imperative form ten is a contextual form of té used when clitic pronouns (e.g., te) are attached to the end of the verb.

Cornish

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. hard mutation of den
  2. mixed mutation of den

Czech

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Old Czech ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Pronoun

[edit]

ten

  1. the, this, that

Declension

[edit]
Declension of ten (irregular)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative ten ta to
genitive toho té toho
dative tomu té tomu
accusative toho ten tu to
locative tom té tom
instrumental tím tou tím
plural
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative ti ty ta
genitive těch
dative těm
accusative ty ta
locative těch
instrumental těmi, těma1

1This form is used when describing dual nouns, e.g. očima, rukama.

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Danish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Norse teinn (“stick”).

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. a spindle; a rod or stick used together with a distaff to spin yarn
  2. in a spinning wheel or similar machine: the reel on which the finished yarn is spooled

Declension

[edit]
Declension of ten
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ten tenen tene tenene
genitive tens tenens tenes tenenes

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Dena'ina

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Proto-Athabaskan *tən.

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. ice

References

[edit]
  • Kari, James (2013), Denaʼina Topical Dictionary, Revised Edition, Alaska Native Language Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 129

Etymology 2

[edit]

From Proto-Athabaskan *təŋʸ-eˑ.

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. trail, road, path
    Synonym: tinitun

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Kari, James (2013), Denaʼina Topical Dictionary, Revised Edition, Alaska Native Language Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 234

Dutch

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

A contraction of te + den. Compare German zum.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Contraction

[edit]

ten

  1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)
    ten goede of ten kwade ― for better or for worse
    ten dele ― partly
    ten tijde van ― during the time of

Usage notes

[edit]
ten is part of many fossilized idiomatic expressions. Being derived in part from te, it is followed by the (similarly fossilized) dative case.
ten is commonly used in Dutch family names such as Corrie ten Boom, Bernhard ten Brink, Marti ten Kate, and Simeon ten Holt.

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

Galician

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]
  • tem (Reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɛŋ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋ
  • Hyphenation: ten

Verb

[edit]

ten

  1. has; third-person singular present indicative of ter
    A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.
    Beer has a long history in Galicia.
  2. inflection of ter:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

[edit]

Gilbertese

[edit]
Gilbertese numbers (edit)
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: ten

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Proto-Oceanic *tolu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Numeral

[edit]

ten

  1. three

Etymology 2

[edit]

From English tin.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

ten

  1. tin

References

[edit]
  • Bingham, Hiram; Sabatier, Father Ernest with Luomala, Goo, and Banner (1978–), “ten”, in Trussel, Stephen, Groves, Gordon W., compilers, A Combined Kiribati–English Online Dictionary‎[7]

Jamaican Creole

[edit]
Jamaican Creole numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tent

Etymology

[edit]

    Inherited from English ten.

    Numeral

    [edit]

    ten

    1. ten

    Further reading

    [edit]
    • ten at majstro.com
    • “A Learner’s Grammar of Jamaican”, in Open Grammar Project‎[8], 2015, Glossary‎[9]

    Japanese

    [edit]

    Romanization

    [edit]

    ten

    1. Rōmaji transcription of てん
    2. Rōmaji transcription of テン

    Kabuverdianu

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From Portuguese ter.

    Verb

    [edit]

    ten

    1. to have
    2. to possess

    Karaim

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From Ultimately from Middle Chinese 等 (MC tojX|tongX, “to equate”).

    Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (teŋ, “equal, equivalent, appropriate”); Crimean Tatar teñ, Karachay-Balkar тенг (teñ), Kumyk тенг (teñ), Urum тэнг (teŋ), Kazakh тең (teŋ, “equal”), Southern Altai теҥ (teŋ, “equal”) Uzbek teng (“equal”), Turkish denk (“equal, equivalent”), Shor тең, Yakut тэҥ (teŋ, “equal”).

    Adjective

    [edit]

    ten

    1. equal

    References

    [edit]
    • N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ten”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

    Kashubian

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]
    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *só
    Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas
    Proto-Slavic *tъ
    Kashubian ten

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

      Pronunciation

      [edit]
      • IPA(key): /ˈtɛn/
      • Rhymes: -ɛn
      • Syllabification: ten

      Pronoun

      [edit]

      ten

      1. this (nearby)

      Further reading

      [edit]
      • Stefan Ramułt (1893), “ten”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 213
      • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ten”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[10]
      • “ten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

      Lithuanian

      [edit]

      Etymology

      [edit]

      From Proto-Baltic *ten "thither", formed from *tas by analogy with Proto-Balto-Slavic *kun "whither", from Proto-Indo-European *kú, with an accusative suffix -m.[1]

      Pronunciation

      [edit]
      • IPA(key): [²ˈtʲɛnˑ]
      • Rhymes: -ɛnˑ
      • Syllabification: teñ

      Adverb

      [edit]

      ten

      1. there

      References

      [edit]
      1. ^ https://www.prusistika.flf.vu.lt/zodynas/paieska/1?id=808

      Lower Sorbian

      [edit]

      Etymology

      [edit]

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

      Pronunciation

      [edit]

      Determiner

      [edit]

      ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)

      1. this

      Declension

      [edit]
      Declension of ten
      singular dual plural
      masculine feminine neuter
      nominative ten ta to tej te
      genitive togo teje togo teju tych
      dative tomu tej tomu tyma tym
      accusative ten
      togo (animate)       		tu to tej
      teju (animate)       		te
      tych (optional animate form)
      instrumental tym teju tym tyma tymi
      locative tom tej tom tyma tych

      Lower Tanana

      [edit]

      Etymology 1

      [edit]

      From Proto-Athabaskan *tən (“ice”), whence also tenh. Cognate with Ahtna ten.

      Root

      [edit]

      ten

      1. to freeze
      Stem set
      [edit]
      Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
      Conclusive ten ten ten ten
      Momentaneous tiyh tenh tiɬ tiɬ
      Neuter ten tin' — —
      Derived terms
      [edit]

      References

      [edit]
      • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 347-348

      Etymology 2

      [edit]

      From Proto-Athabaskan *təŋ.

      Root

      [edit]

      ten

      1. to be asleep
      Stem set
      [edit]
      Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
      Neuter tenh tin' tin' tiɬ
      Derived terms
      [edit]

      References

      [edit]
      • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 348

      Etymology 3

      [edit]

      From Proto-Athabaskan *təm. Cognate with Ahtna łteni, nełteni (“thunder, grasshopper”).

      Root

      [edit]

      ten

      1. to thunder
      Stem set
      [edit]
      Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
      Consecutive tenh tenh tenh tenh
      Momentaneous tiyh tenh tiɬ tiɬ
      Derived terms
      [edit]

      References

      [edit]
      • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 348-349

      Middle Dutch

      [edit]

      Contraction

      [edit]

      ten

      1. contraction of te +‎ den

      Middle English

      [edit]
      Middle English numbers (edit)
      100
       ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
      1
          Cardinal: ten
          Ordinal: tenthe, tithe

      Etymology 1

      [edit]

      Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

      Alternative forms

      [edit]

      Pronunciation

      [edit]

      Numeral

      [edit]

      ten (postpositive (especially Early Middle English) tene)

      1. ten
      [edit]
      Descendants
      [edit]
      • English: ten
      • Scots: ten
      • Yola: dhen
      References
      [edit]

      Etymology 2

      [edit]

        From Old English tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

        Alternative forms

        [edit]

        Verb

        [edit]

        ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)

        1. (transitive) To draw; lead.
        2. (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.
        Conjugation
        [edit]
        Conjugation of ten (strong class 2)
        infinitive (to) ten, te
        present tense past tense
        1st-person singular te tegh
        2nd-person singular test towe1
        3rd-person singular teth tegh
        subjunctive singular te towe2
        imperative singular —
        plural3 ten, te towen, towe
        imperative plural teth, te —
        participles teynge, tende towen, towe

        1 Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular or teghest.
        2 Later replaced by the indicative.
        3 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

        Derived terms
        [edit]

        Etymology 3

        [edit]

        From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).

        Noun

        [edit]

        ten

        1. plural of toth

        Northern Kurdish

        [edit]

        Etymology

        [edit]

        From Arabic طَعْن (ṭaʕn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).

        Pronunciation

        [edit]

        Noun

        [edit]

        ten m or f

        1. scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
        2. threat

        References

        [edit]
        • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[11], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 604

        Old Czech

        [edit]

        Alternative forms

        [edit]

        Etymology

        [edit]
        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *só
        Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas
        Proto-Slavic *tъ
        Old Czech ten

          Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

          Pronunciation

          [edit]

          Pronoun

          [edit]

          ten

          1. this (nearby)

          Declension

          [edit]
          Declension of ten (hard pronominal)
          singular
          masculine feminine neuter
          nominative ten ta to
          genitive toho té toho
          dative tomu téj, tej tomu
          accusative teninan+anml or
          tohopers+anml          		 tu to
          locative tom téj, tej tom
          instrumental tiem tú tiem
          dual
          masculine feminine neuter
          nominative ta tě
          genitive tú
          dative těma
          accusative ta tě
          locative tú
          instrumental těma
          plural
          masculine feminine neuter
          nominative ti ty ta
          genitive těch
          dative těm
          accusative ty ta
          locative těch
          instrumental těmi

          Coordinate terms

          [edit]
          Type interrogative relative demonstrative indefinite
          kto/ký
          qualitative           		který
          selective           		jen sen
          proximal           		ten onen
          distal           		jiný
          alternative           		veš
          every
          Time k(eh)dy -kterdy jedy — t(eh)dy on(eh)dy jindy v(e)šdy
          Place in kde -kterde — sde tu onde jinde vešde
          to kam(o) — jam(o) sěm(o) tam(o) onam(o) jinam(o) všam(o)
          through kudy, kady — jady sudy tudy, tady onudy, onady jinudy, jinady všudy, všady
          with prepositions -kud, -kad — -ňud, -ňad -sud, -sad -tud, -tad -onud, -onad -jinud, -jinad -všud, -všad
          Manner Way kak(o) kterak(o) jak(o) sic(e) tak(o) onak(o) jinak(o) však(o)
          Amount kolik(o) — jelik(o) — tolik(o) — — všelik(o)
          Indefinite prefixes: ně-, leda-, neda-, ni-
          Indefinite suffixes: -koli, -si

          Derived terms

          [edit]

          Descendants

          [edit]

          See also

          [edit]

          References

          [edit]

          Old English

          [edit]

          Alternative forms

          [edit]

          Etymology

          [edit]

          See tīen.

          Pronunciation

          [edit]

          Numeral

          [edit]

          tēn

          1. (Mercian) ten

          References

          [edit]
          • A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123

          Old Polish

          [edit]

          Alternative forms

          [edit]

          Etymology

          [edit]
          Etymology tree
          Proto-Indo-European *só
          Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas
          Proto-Slavic *tъ
          Old Polish ten

            Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ. First attested in the 14th century.

            Pronunciation

            [edit]
            • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /tɛn/
            • IPA(key): (15th CE) /tɛn/

            Pronoun

            [edit]

            ten

            1. this (nearby)

            Declension

            [edit]

            This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

            Descendants

            [edit]

            References

            [edit]

            Old Tupi

            [edit]

            Etymology

            [edit]

            Onomatopoeic.

            Pronunciation

            [edit]

            Particle

            [edit]

            ten

            1. (used with the verb 'e) to be firm, fixed, or snug (literally, “to make a "ten" sound”)
            [edit]

            References

            [edit]

            Pipil

            [edit]

            Etymology

            [edit]

            From Proto-Nahuan *teen-tlɨ, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).

            Pronunciation

            [edit]

            Noun

            [edit]

            -tēn (plural -tejtēn)

            1. mouth
              Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka
              You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby
            2. edge, brim
              Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul
              Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug
            3. opening
              Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten
              They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)

            Derived terms

            [edit]

            Noun

            [edit]

            -tēn

            1. on the edge, outside
              Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput
              They waited outside the cave
            Declension of -ten
            singular plural
            first person nuten tuten
            second person muten anmuten
            third person iten inten

            Polish

            [edit]

            Etymology

            [edit]
            Etymology tree
            Proto-Indo-European *só
            Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas
            Proto-Slavic *tъ
            Old Polish ten
            Polish ten

              Inherited from Old Polish ten.

              Pronunciation

              [edit]
               
              • Audio 1:(file)
              • Audio 2:(file)
              • Rhymes: -ɛn
              • Syllabification: ten

              Pronoun

              [edit]

              ten

              1. this (nearby)

              Usage notes

              [edit]

              1The feminine accusative singular form tą is proscribed, but overall much more common.

              Declension

              [edit]
              Declension of ten
              singular plural
              masculine neuter feminine virile nonvirile
              nominative ten to ta ci te
              genitive tego tej tych
              dative temu tym
              accusative animate tego to tę/tą1 tych te
              inanimate ten
              instrumental tym tą tymi
              locative tym tej tych
              vocative ten to ta ci te

              Derived terms

              [edit]
              determiners
              pronouns
              [edit]

              Particle

              [edit]

              ten

              1. filler word
                A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...

              Trivia

              [edit]

              According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ten is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1196 times in scientific texts, 782 times in news, 1457 times in essays, 1080 times in fiction, and 1228 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5743 times, making it the 10th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

              References

              [edit]
              1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “ten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 600

              Further reading

              [edit]

              Romanian

              [edit]

              Etymology

              [edit]

              Borrowed from French teint.

              Noun

              [edit]

              ten n (plural tenuri)

              1. color of the face

              Declension

              [edit]
              singular plural
              indefinite definite indefinite definite
              nominative-accusative ten tenul tenuri tenurile
              genitive-dative ten tenului tenuri tenurilor
              vocative tenule tenurilor

              Scots

              [edit]
              Scots numbers (edit)
               ←  1  ←  9 10 11  → 
              1
                  Cardinal: ten
                  Ordinal: tent

              Etymology

              [edit]

              Inherited from Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

              Numeral

              [edit]

              ten

              1. ten

              References

              [edit]

              Slovak

              [edit]

              Etymology

              [edit]

              Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

              Pronunciation

              [edit]

              Pronoun

              [edit]

              ten m

              1. the; this; that

              Declension

              [edit]
              Declension of ten (irregular)
              singular
              masculine feminine neuter
              animate inanimate
              nominative ten tá to
              genitive toho tej toho
              dative tomu tej tomu
              accusative toho ten tú to
              locative tom tej tom
              instrumental tým tou tým
              plural
              masculine feminine/neuter
              virile nonvirile
              nominative tí tie
              genitive tých
              dative tým
              accusative tých tie
              locative tých
              instrumental tými
              [edit]

              Further reading

              [edit]
              • “ten”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

              Spanish

              [edit]

              Pronunciation

              [edit]

              Verb

              [edit]

              ten

              1. second-person singular imperative of tener

              Sranan Tongo

              [edit]

              Etymology

              [edit]

              From English time.

              Noun

              [edit]

              ten

              1. time
                • 1975, Mighty Botai, “Sranang Kong Fri”, in Onafhankelijkheid (Srefidensi) Suriname:
                  Atleba ten no sa de moro ini Sranan / Den bakra, den ben hori wi na baka / Den de bow den kondre kon na fesi / Meki wi e pina
                  The period of toiling will be no more in Suriname / The Dutch, they held us back / They built up their country successfully / Made us suffer

              Sumerian

              [edit]

              Romanization

              [edit]

              ten

              1. romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

              Swedish

              [edit]

              Etymology

              [edit]

              From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *tainaz

              Pronunciation

              [edit]

              Noun

              [edit]

              ten c

              1. a thin metal rod
              2. (spinning) the shaft of a spindle (in any material)

              Declension

              [edit]
              Declension of ten
              nominative genitive
              singular indefinite ten tens
              definite tenen tenens
              plural indefinite tenar tenars
              definite tenarna tenarnas

              Derived terms

              [edit]

              See also

              [edit]

              References

              [edit]
              • “ten”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
              • ten in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

              Tiang

              [edit]

              Noun

              [edit]

              ten

              1. woman

              Further reading

              [edit]
              • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[14], Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

              Tok Pisin

              [edit]
              Tok Pisin numbers (edit)
              100
               ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
              1
                  Cardinal: ten

              Etymology

              [edit]

              From English ten.

              Numeral

              [edit]

              ten

              1. ten

              Usage notes

              [edit]

              Used when counting; see also tenpela.

              Coordinate terms

              [edit]
              Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99
              —0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
              0— — wan tu tri foa faiv sikis seven et nain
              10— ten eleven twelv tetin fotin fiftin sikistin seventin etin naintin
              20— twenti tupela ten wan tupela ten tu tupela ten tri tupela ten foa tupela ten faiv tupela ten sikis tupela ten seven tupela ten et tupela ten nain
              30— teti tripela ten wan tripela ten tu tripela ten tri tripela ten foa tripela ten faiv tripela ten sikis tripela ten seven tripela ten et tripela ten nain
              40— foti fopela ten wan fopela ten tu fopela ten tri fopela ten foa fopela ten faiv fopela ten sikis fopela ten seven fopela ten et fopela ten nain
              50— fifti faivpela ten wan faivpela ten tu faivpela ten tri faivpela ten foa faivpela ten faiv faivpela ten sikis faivpela ten seven faivpela ten et faivpela ten nain
              60— sikisti sikispela ten wan sikispela ten tu sikispela ten tri sikispela ten foa sikispela ten faiv sikispela ten sikis sikispela ten seven sikispela ten et sikispela ten nain
              70— seventi sevenpela ten wan sevenpela ten tu sevenpela ten tri sevenpela ten foa sevenpela ten faiv sevenpela ten sikis sevenpela ten seven sevenpela ten et sevenpela ten nain
              80— eti etpela ten wan etpela ten tu etpela ten tri etpela ten foa etpela ten faiv etpela ten sikis etpela ten seven etpela ten et etpela ten nain
              90— nainti nainpela ten wan nainpela ten tu nainpela ten tri nainpela ten foa nainpela ten faiv nainpela ten sikis nainpela ten seven nainpela ten et nainpela ten nain

              Turkish

              [edit]

              Etymology

              [edit]

              Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن (ten), from Persian تن (tan).

              Pronunciation

              [edit]

              Noun

              [edit]

              ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

              1. skin
              2. body
              3. (dialectal) vulva of a cow

              Declension

              [edit]
              Declension of ten
              singular plural
              nominative ten tenler
              definite accusative teni tenleri
              dative tene tenlere
              locative tende tenlerde
              ablative tenden tenlerden
              genitive tenin tenlerin
              Possessive forms
              nominative
              singular plural
              1st singular tenim tenlerim
              2nd singular tenin tenlerin
              3rd singular teni tenleri
              1st plural tenimiz tenlerimiz
              2nd plural teniniz tenleriniz
              3rd plural tenleri tenleri
              definite accusative
              singular plural
              1st singular tenimi tenlerimi
              2nd singular tenini tenlerini
              3rd singular tenini tenlerini
              1st plural tenimizi tenlerimizi
              2nd plural teninizi tenlerinizi
              3rd plural tenlerini tenlerini
              dative
              singular plural
              1st singular tenime tenlerime
              2nd singular tenine tenlerine
              3rd singular tenine tenlerine
              1st plural tenimize tenlerimize
              2nd plural teninize tenlerinize
              3rd plural tenlerine tenlerine
              locative
              singular plural
              1st singular tenimde tenlerimde
              2nd singular teninde tenlerinde
              3rd singular teninde tenlerinde
              1st plural tenimizde tenlerimizde
              2nd plural teninizde tenlerinizde
              3rd plural tenlerinde tenlerinde
              ablative
              singular plural
              1st singular tenimden tenlerimden
              2nd singular teninden tenlerinden
              3rd singular teninden tenlerinden
              1st plural tenimizden tenlerimizden
              2nd plural teninizden tenlerinizden
              3rd plural tenlerinden tenlerinden
              genitive
              singular plural
              1st singular tenimin tenlerimin
              2nd singular teninin tenlerinin
              3rd singular teninin tenlerinin
              1st plural tenimizin tenlerimizin
              2nd plural teninizin tenlerinizin
              3rd plural tenlerinin tenlerinin

              References

              [edit]
              • “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
              Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ten&oldid=92658651"