tn
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[edit]Symbol
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tn
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of trillion.
Alternative forms
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]tn (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tonight.
- 2014 October 15, @spanishgodess_, Twitter[1]:
- I'm just annoyed cuz you didn't text me tn and ugh fuck you
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[edit]Egyptian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: ten
Determiner
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f sg proximal demonstrative determiner
Usage notes
[edit]This demonstrative was originally a determiner but could later be used alone, like a pronoun. When used as a determiner it follows the noun it describes.
It forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative tf, in which tn is proximal.
Inflection
[edit]determiners | pronouns1 | adverbs | ||||||
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singular | dual | plural | unmarked | |||||
masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |||
proximal to speaker | pn |
tn |
*jpnj |
jptnj, jptntj |
jpn |
jptn |
nn |
— |
distal | pf |
tf |
*jpfj |
*jptfj, *jptftj |
jpf |
jptf |
nf |
— |
proximal to spoken of | pj, pw, p |
tj, tw |
jpwj |
jptwj, jptwtj |
jpw |
jptw, jptwt |
nw |
— |
vocative | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
— |
— |
— |
— |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
1 Unmarked for number and gender, but treated syntactically as masculine plurals when used with participles and relative forms, and as feminine singulars when referred to by resumptive pronouns.
determiners and pronouns | adverbs | |||
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singular | plural1 | |||
masculine | feminine | |||
proximal | pn |
tn |
nn |
ꜥn |
distal | pf, pfꜣ |
tf, tfꜣ |
nf, nfꜣ |
ꜥf |
‘copula’ and vocative | pw, pwy |
tw, twy |
nw |
— |
anaphoric | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
1 Joined by n(j) to nouns they modify.
masculine | feminine | plural | adverb | ||
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pronoun | pꜣw |
dj | |||
determiners and pronouns | pꜣj |
tꜣj |
nꜣj | ||
possessive determiners1 | pꜣy |
tꜣy |
nꜣy | ||
relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) | p-n, pꜣ |
t-nt, tꜣ |
nꜣyw, nꜣ | ||
definite articles | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ2 | ||
indefinite articles | wꜥ2 |
nhꜣy2 |
1 Used with suffix pronouns.
2 Originally joined by n(j) to nouns they modify; later without it.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
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pl and f sg 2. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun
- Variant spelling of ṯn
References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 51, 54–55.
- Edel, Elmar (1955-1964) Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]tn
- Abbreviation of tänav.
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