ty

See also: Ty, -ty, ty., .ty, Tý, tŷ, tỷ, Tỵ, and ти

English

Interjection

ty

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thank you.

Related terms

• tysm
• tyvm

See also

• thx

Anagrams

• YT, yt

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tə̟i̯]

Noun

ty (plural [please provide])

1. season

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tuu̯an, from earlier *tuu̯ān, from earlier *tuu̯ām, from Proto-Indo-European *tuu̯ēm (*twé, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”)). Compare Latin te.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/

Pronoun

ty

1. (personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

Related terms

• ti
• teje
• të

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Cornish) te

Pronoun

ty

1. you (informal second person singular pronoun)
2. thou
3. thee

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪ/

• audio

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Pronoun

ty

1. (personal) you (second person singular)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ty	vy
genitive	tebe/tě	vás
dative	tobě/ti	vám
accusative	tebe/tě	vás
vocative	-	-
locative	tobě	vás
instrumental	tebou	vámi

See also

• já
• my
• on
• ona
• oni
• ono
• ony
• vy

Further reading

• ty in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ty in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þýða (“to make friends”), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þiuþjan, “to bless”). It may originally be the same verb as *þiudijaną (“to interpret”), which is the source of Old Norse þýða (whence Danish tyde) and German deuten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢyˀ]

Verb

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)

1. to turn to, resort to

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Guaraní

Noun

ty

1. urine

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ ˈc]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ ˈceː]

Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ty	ty-k
accusative	ty-t	ty-ket
dative	ty-nek	ty-knek
instrumental	ty-vel	ty-kkel
causal-final	ty-ért	ty-kért
translative	ty-vé	ty-kké
terminative	ty-ig	ty-kig
essive-formal	ty-ként	ty-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ty-ben	ty-kben
superessive	ty-n	ty-ken
adessive	ty-nél	ty-knél
illative	ty-be	ty-kbe
sublative	ty-re	ty-kre
allative	ty-hez	ty-khez
elative	ty-ből	ty-kből
delative	ty-ről	ty-kről
ablative	ty-től	ty-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	ty-é	ty-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	ty-éi	ty-kéi

Possessive forms of ty
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ty-m	ty-im
2nd person sing.	ty-d	ty-id
3rd person sing.	ty-je	ty-i
1st person plural	ty-nk	ty-ink
2nd person plural	ty-tek	ty-itek
3rd person plural	ty-jük	ty-ik

See also

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z, Zs zs

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨ]

Pronoun

ty sg

1. you (singular, informal)

Declension

Declension of the second-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ty	wej	wy
Genitive	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Dative	śi tebje¹	wama	wam
Accusative	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Instrumental	tobu	wama	wami
Locative	tebje	wama	was
Possessive determiner	twój	waju	waš

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

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Middle English

Determiner

ty

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi

References

• “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þýða.

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tydd/tytt, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 2

From Old Norse týja.

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tydd/tytt, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 3

From Old Norse tygi (“tool”).

Noun

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by tøy

Anagrams

• yt

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɨ/

• audio

  (file)

Pronoun

ty

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

• Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

Declension

declension of ty

	singular
nominative	ty
genitive	ciebie/cię
dative	tobie/ci
accusative	ciebie/cię
instrumental	tobą
locative	tobie
vocative	ty

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading

• ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Silesian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

ty

1. you (singular)

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/

Pronoun

ty

1. you (personal, singular)

Declension

Declension of ty

	singular	plural
nominative	ty	vy
genitive	ťa, teba	vás
dative	ti, tebe	vám
accusative	ťa, teba	vás
locative	tebe	vás
instrumental	tebou	vami

See also

• Ty
• ja
• my
• on
• ona
• oni
• ono
• ony
• vy

Further reading

• ty in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyː/

• Audio

  (file)

Conjunction

ty

1. (archaic, poetic) because, therefore

Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

• Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
• Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

Synonyms

• därför att
• eftersom
• emedan
• för

Verb

ty

1. to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.

   När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar

   When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ty (weak)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	ty	—
Present tense	tyr	—
Past tense	tydde	—
Supine	tytt	—
Imperative	ty	—
Present participle	tyende
Past participle	—

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

ty

1. you, thou

Declension

Declension of the second-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ty	wój	wy
Genitive	æe (after preposition) tebje	waju	was
Dative	æi (after preposition) tebi	wamaj	wam
Accusative	æe (after preposition) tebje	waju	was
Instrumental	tobu	wamaj	wami
Locative	tebi	wamaj	was

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Westrobothnian

Verb

ty

1. Alternative form of tyd

Adjective

ty

1. Alternative form of tyd