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ten

See also: Ten, TEN, tén, tèn, tên, and -ten

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English ten.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ten

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

EnglishEdit

English numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tenth
    Latinate ordinal: denary
    Adverbial: ten times
    Multiplier: tenfold
    Latinate multiplier: decuple
    Collective: tensome
    Multiuse collective: decuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade
    Metric collective prefix: deca-
    Greek collective prefix: deca-
    Latinate collective prefix: deca-
    Fractional: tenth
    Metric fractional prefix: deci-
    Elemental: decuplet
    Greek prefix: decato-
    Number of musicians: decet
    Number of years: decade, decennium
 
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EtymologyEdit

 
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From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”), Dutch tien (“ten”), German zehn (“ten”), Norwegian ti (“ten”), Swedish tio (“ten”).

Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dhjetë, Old Armenian տասն (tasn), Lithuanian dešimt, Old Church Slavonic десѧть (desętĭ), Old Breton dec, Old Irish deich, Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Sanskrit दश (dásá), Old Persian *𐎭𐎰 (*d-θ /daθa/), Latin decem, Tocharian A śäk.

See also teen.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

ten

  1. The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

See ten/translations § Numeral.

NounEdit

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

  1. A set or group with ten elements.
    We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
  2. (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
    Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
    tens of thousands of voters
  3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
    Synonym: tenner
    Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
  5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
    Synonym: dime piece
  6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
    • 1911, The Cambridge Review (volume 32, page 486)
      At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
    • 1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history (page 105)
      Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.

Coordinate termsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from the numeral or noun ten

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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See alsoEdit


Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
             
ace deuce, two three four five six seven
             
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

AnagramsEdit

Atong (India)Edit

EtymologyEdit

From English ten.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

ten (Bengali script তেন)

  1. ten

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

BislamaEdit

Bislama cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : ten

EtymologyEdit

From English ten.

NumeralEdit

ten

  1. ten

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ten

  1. second-person singular imperative form of tenir

Usage notesEdit

Generally, the imperative form ten is a contextual form of té used when clitic pronouns (e.g., te) are attached to the end of the verb.

CornishEdit

NounEdit

ten

  1. Hard mutation of den.
  2. Mixed mutation of den.

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ten m

  1. the; this; that

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ten (irregular)
singular
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter
nominative ten ta to
genitive toho té toho
dative tomu té tomu
accusative toho ten to tu
locative tom té tom
instrumental tím tou tím
plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter
nominative ti ty ta
genitive těch
dative těm
accusative ty ta
locative těch
instrumental těmi

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ten in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ten in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • ten in Internetová jazyková příručka

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

A contraction of te + den.

PronunciationEdit

ContractionEdit

ten

  1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)
    ten goede of ten kwade ― for better or for worse
    ten dele ― partly
    ten tijde van ― during the time of

Usage notesEdit

ten is part of many fossilized idiomatic expressions. Being derived in part from te, it is followed by the (similarly fossilized) dative case.
ten is commonly used in Dutch family names such as Corrie ten Boom, Bernhard ten Brink, Marti ten Kate, and Simeon ten Holt.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

GalicianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

ten

  1. has; third-person singular present indicative of ter
    A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.
    Beer has a long history in Galicia.
  2. second-person singular imperative of ter

ReferencesEdit

  • “ten” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

  • Romanization of 天

ten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of テン

KabuverdianuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese ter.

VerbEdit

ten

  1. to have
  2. to possess

LithuanianEdit

AdverbEdit

ten

  1. there

Lower SorbianEdit

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)

  1. this

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ten
Masculine singular Feminine singular Neuter singular Dual Plural
Nominative ten ta to tej te
Genitive togo teje togo teju tych
Dative tomu tej tomu tyma tym
Accusative ten
togo (animate) 		tu to tej
teju (animate) 		te
tych (optional animate form)
Instrumental tym teju tym tyma tymi
Locative tom tej tom tyma tych

Middle DutchEdit

ContractionEdit

ten

  1. Contraction of te den.

Middle EnglishEdit

Middle English numbers (edit)
100
[a], [b] ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1[a], [b]
    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tenthe, tithe

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English tīen.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

ten

  1. ten
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • English: ten
  • Scots: ten
  • Yola: dhen
ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)

  1. (transitive) To draw; lead.
  2. (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of ten (strong class 2)
infinitive (to) ten, te
present tense past tense
1st-person singular te tegh
2nd-person singular test towe, tegh
3rd-person singular teth tegh
subjunctive singular te towe1
imperative singular —
plural2 ten, te towen, towe
imperative plural teth, te —
participles teynge, tende towen, towe

1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).

NounEdit

ten

  1. plural of tothe

Northern KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic طَعْن‎ (ṭaʿn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ten m or f

  1. scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
  2. threat

ReferencesEdit

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

See tien

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

tēn

  1. (Mercian) ten

ReferencesEdit

  1. A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123

Old PolishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

PronounEdit

ten m

  1. this (nearby)

DeclensionEdit

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

PipilEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Nahuan *teːn-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

-tēn (plural -tejtēn)

  1. mouth
    Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka
    You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby
  2. edge, brim
    Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul
    Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug
  3. opening
    Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten
    They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

-tēn

  1. on the edge, outside
    Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput
    They waited outside the cave
Declension of -ten
Person Number
singular plural
first nuten tuten
second muten anmuten
third iten inten

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Old Polish ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ten m

  1. this (nearby)
m f n vir pl nvir pl
Nom ten ta to ci te
Gen tego tej tego tych
Dat temu tej temu tym
Acc tego/ten tę/tą to tych te
Instr tym tą tym tymi
Loc tym tej tym tych

Usage notesEdit

The feminine accusative singular form tą is only acceptable in colloquial speech, not in formal writing.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ParticleEdit

ten

  1. Filler word.
    A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...

TriviaEdit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ten is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 1196 times in scientific texts, 782 times in news, 1457 times in essays, 1080 times in fiction, and 1228 times in plays, totaling 5743 times, making it the 10th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “ten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 600

Further readingEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French teint.

NounEdit

ten n (plural tenuri)

  1. color of the face

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ten
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ten tenul (niște) tenuri tenurile
genitive/dative (unui) ten tenului (unor) tenuri tenurilor
vocative tenule tenurilor

ScotsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English ten.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

cardinal number
10 Previous: nine
Next: eleiven

ten

  1. ten

ReferencesEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ten m

  1. (demonstrative) this (nearby)

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ten in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈten/ [ˈt̪ẽn]
  • Audio (Colombia)(file)
  • Rhymes: -en
  • Syllabification: ten

VerbEdit

ten

  1. second-person singular imperative of tener

Sranan TongoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English time.

NounEdit

ten

    • 1975, Mighty Botai (lyrics and music), “Sranang Kong Fri”, in Onafhankelijkheid (Srefidensi) Suriname:
      Atleba ten no sa de moro ini Sranan / Den bakra, den ben hori wi na baka / Den de bow den kondre kon na fesi / Meki wi e pina
      The period of toiling will be no more in Suriname / The Dutch, they held us back / They built up their country successfully / Made us suffer
  1. time

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

ten

  1. Romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”).

NounEdit

ten c

  1. a rod, a stick (of metal or wood)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ten 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ten tenen tenar tenarna
Genitive tens tenens tenars tenarnas

See alsoEdit

TiangEdit

NounEdit

ten

  1. woman

Further readingEdit

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Tok PisinEdit

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten

EtymologyEdit

From English ten.

NumeralEdit

ten

  1. ten

Usage notesEdit

Used when counting; see also tenpela.

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن‎ (ten), from Persian تن‎ (tan).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

  1. skin
  2. body
  3. (dialectal) vulva of a cow

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative ten
Definite accusative teni
Singular Plural
Nominative ten tenler
Definite accusative teni tenleri
Dative tene tenlere
Locative tende tenlerde
Ablative tenden tenlerden
Genitive tenin tenlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular tenim tenlerim
2nd singular tenin tenlerin
3rd singular teni tenleri
1st plural tenimiz tenlerimiz
2nd plural teniniz tenleriniz
3rd plural tenleri tenleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular tenimi tenlerimi
2nd singular tenini tenlerini
3rd singular tenini tenlerini
1st plural tenimizi tenlerimizi
2nd plural teninizi tenlerinizi
3rd plural tenlerini tenlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular tenime tenlerime
2nd singular tenine tenlerine
3rd singular tenine tenlerine
1st plural tenimize tenlerimize
2nd plural teninize tenlerinize
3rd plural tenlerine tenlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular tenimde tenlerimde
2nd singular teninde tenlerinde
3rd singular teninde tenlerinde
1st plural tenimizde tenlerimizde
2nd plural teninizde tenlerinizde
3rd plural tenlerinde tenlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular tenimden tenlerimden
2nd singular teninden tenlerinden
3rd singular teninden tenlerinden
1st plural tenimizden tenlerimizden
2nd plural teninizden tenlerinizden
3rd plural tenlerinden tenlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular tenimin tenlerimin
2nd singular teninin tenlerinin
3rd singular teninin tenlerinin
1st plural tenimizin tenlerimizin
2nd plural teninizin tenlerinizin
3rd plural tenlerinin tenlerinin

ReferencesEdit

  • “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

WestrobothnianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ten n

  1. tin (chemical element)
    joʈ båʈi teɳęɳ
    made out of tin
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