têm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tem"
Galician edit
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têm
- (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ter
Kabuverdianu edit
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From Portuguese ter.
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têm
Macanese edit
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- (also common) tem
Etymology edit
From Portuguese tem and têm, inflections of ter. Compare similar semantic developments in Kabuverdianu têm. Sense 3 may be a calque of Cantonese 有, especially têm gente as a calque of 有人 (jau5 jan4).
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têm
- to have, to possess
- Vôs têm quanto filo-filo?
- How many children do you have?
- (with qui) to have to, to be required to
- Synonym: mestê
- Têm qui esmolâ pa nádi morê di fome
- He has to beg in order to not starve to death
- there is, there are
- têm gente falá ― some people say (literally, “there are people saying”)
- Têm pâm dóci, têm pâm salgado
- There is sweet bread, there is savoury bread
- to be (as pertains to physical location)
- Nôs têm aqui ― We are here
- Iou têm na casa ― I am at home
- Úndi têm vôsso mai?
- Where is your mother?
Usage notes edit
- Sense 2 sometimes written as têm-qui, with a hyphen between the words.
- sâm is not used to express physical location.
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têm
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese tẽem, from Latin tenent. Cognate with Galician teñen and Spanish tienen. Also compare with vêm.
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têm
Vietnamese edit
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- to prepare betel leaves for consumption by folding with slaked lime