tamten

Czech

Etymology

Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamtɛn]

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Pronoun

tamten

1. that; that one

   Synonyms: onen, tamhleten

Declension

Declension of tamten (irregular)

singular
	masculine		feminine	neuter
	animate	inanimate
nominative	tamten		tamta	tamto
genitive	tamtoho		tamté	tamtoho
dative	tamtomu		tamté	tamtomu
accusative	tamtoho	tamten	tamtu	tamto
locative	tamtom		tamté	tamtom
instrumental	tamtím		tamtou	tamtím
plural
	masculine		feminine	neuter
	animate	inanimate
nominative	tamti	tamty		tamta
genitive	tamtěch
dative	tamtěm
accusative	tamty			tamta
locative	tamtěch
instrumental	tamtěmi

Further reading

• “tamten”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tamten”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tamten”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Kashubian

Etymology

Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Czech tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam.tɛn/
• Rhymes: -amtɛn
• Syllabification: tam‧ten

Pronoun

tamten

1. that, that one

Further reading

• “tamten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Slovak

Etymology

Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. First attested in 1666.

Pronoun

tamten

1. that, that one
2. past, previous

Descendants

• Slovak: tamten

References

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “tamten”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam.tɛn/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈtam.tɛn/

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• Rhymes: -amtɛn
• Syllabification: tam‧ten

Pronoun

tamten

1. that, that one

   Synonym: ów

Declension

Declension of tamten (irregular)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	tamten		tamta	tamto	tamci	tamte
genitive	tamtego		tamtej	tamtego	tamtych
dative	tamtemu		tamtej	tamtemu	tamtym
accusative	tamtego	tamten	tamtę, tamtą1	tamto	tamtych	tamte
instrumental	tamtym		tamtą	tamtym	tamtymi
locative	tamtym		tamtej	tamtym	tamtych

¹Proscribed but much more common.

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tamten is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 8 times in essays, 57 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 122 times, making it the 495th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• tamten in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tamten in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TAMTEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 17.12.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 17

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak tamten. By surface analysis, univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, and Silesian tamtyn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamcen]

Pronoun

tamten

1. that, that one
2. (colloquial) past, previous

Descendants

• Slovak: tamten

References

• “tamten”, 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, 2003–2025