't
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "t"
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Pronoun edit
't
- (archaic or eye dialect) Contraction of it.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 6, column 2:
- He could not miſſe't.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 217, column 1:
- Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:
- (eye dialect) Contraction of that.
- 2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:
Derived terms edit
Afrikaans edit
Verb edit
't
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't
Catalan edit
Pronoun edit
't
- Contraction of te.
Usage notes edit
- 't is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.
- Fixa't. ― Take note.
Declension edit
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Article edit
't
- Contraction of het (“the”).
- Dan houdt 't verhaal op ― Then the story ends.
- Waar in 't veld staat hij? ― Where on the pitch is he?
- Wat ga je in 't weekend doen? ― What are you up to this weekend?
- Also used in names: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (Nobel laureate in chemistry)
Pronoun edit
't
- Contraction of het (“it”).
- 't Is al laat ― It's late already.
- Kan je 't goed zien? ― Can you see it well?
Usage notes edit
Common in spoken Dutch. Other than in names, "het" is usually written in full in written Dutch.
't is never capitalised, even before a proper noun or at the start of sentences. Instead, the following word is capitalised, as in 't Kan beter. (It could be better.)
Inflection edit
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
Limburgish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Contraction of het.
Article edit
't n
Pronoun edit
't n
- Reduced form of het (“it”)
Declension edit
Limburgish (Southeast) personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ich | 'ch | mich | m'ch | mir | m'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
doe | de | dich | d'ch | dir | d'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person singular | m | heë deë |
e de |
dem | d'm | hem dem |
'm | zich | |
f | zie het |
ze 't | |||||||
n | det | 't | |||||||
1st person plural | vir | v'r | ós | — | ós | — | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person plural | duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person plural | zie die |
ze | hön | — | hönnen | — | zich |
Etymology 2 edit
Contraction of het, itself derived from det.
Pronoun edit
't f
- Reduced form of het (“she”)
Declension edit
Limburgish (Southeast) personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ich | 'ch | mich | m'ch | mir | m'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
doe | de | dich | d'ch | dir | d'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person singular | m | heë deë |
e de |
dem | d'm | hem dem |
'm | zich | |
f | zie het |
ze 't | |||||||
n | det | 't | |||||||
1st person plural | vir | v'r | ós | — | ós | — | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person plural | duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person plural | zie die |
ze | hön | — | hönnen | — | zich |
Luxembourgish edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
't
- Alternative form of et
Usage notes edit
- Chiefly used before and after vowels, but never obligatory.
Declension edit
Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | Der | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | ||
3rd person singular | m | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
f | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | ||
n | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | ||
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | ||
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | ||
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /t/, [t]
Conjunction edit
't (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔)
- Contraction of at, after a word ending in a vowel, primarily used as a clitic in informal writing or recorded speech.
Derived terms edit
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Determiner edit
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