ten
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ten
- (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction
English edit
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Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Group collective: tensome Multipart 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 |
Etymology edit
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”). See also teen.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĕn IPA(key): /tɛn/, [tʰɛn]
- IPA(key): /tɪn/ (pin–pen merger)
Audio (US-Inland North) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛn, Rhymes: -ɪn (pin–pen merger)
- Homophone: tin (with pin-pen merger)
Numeral edit
ten
- The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
Noun edit
ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)
- A set or group with ten elements.
- We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
- (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
- (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- (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?
- (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- Synonym: dime piece
- 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio[2]:
- I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.
- 2023 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine[3]:
- An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
- (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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 terms edit
Derived terms edit
- a hundred and ten percent
- at ten and two
- Bayard of ten toes
- card of ten
- count to ten
- feel ten feet tall
- five-and-ten
- five and ten
- five will get you ten
- four score and ten
- grade ten
- hang ten
- nine times out of ten
- not touch something with a ten-foot pole
- not touch with a ten-foot pole
- number ten
- starter for ten
- take ten
- ten a penny
- ten bagger
- ten-bagger
- ten-ball
- ten-cent store
- ten-cent tour
- ten-cent word
- Ten Commandments
- ten-dollar word
- ten-eighty
- ten foot
- ten-footer
- ten foot pole
- ten-for
- ten for the big guy
- ten-four
- ten-gallon hat
- ten-hut
- ten-in-one
- ten-lined June beetle
- Ten Mile Bank
- ten million
- tenner
- ten o'clock
- ten-penny nail
- ten penny nail
- ten-percenter
- ten piece
- ten-pin/ten-pin bowling
- ten points to Gryffindor
- ten-pounder
- tenpounder
- ten pound pom
- ten pound Pom
- ten-pound tourist
- ten pound tourist
- ten sack
- tens across the board
- ten-second car
- ten-second rule
- ten-shun
- ten-speed
- ten-spot
- ten-strike
- ten-strip
- ten thousand
- ten-thousandth
- ten toes down
- ten to one
- ten to the dozen
- ten ways from Sunday
- ten will get you twenty
- ten-year series
- three score and ten
- top ten
- two upon ten
- upper ten
- upper ten thousand
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
- (prefix): deca-, deka-
- (adjective): decadal, decenary
- (a set of 10 items): decimate, decimal; decaplet, decuplet (of babies, musical notes, or baryons)
- (containing 10 items): decenary
- (related to base-10 numeration): See decimal
- (period of 10 months): decimestrial
- (period of 10 years): See decade and decennium
- (related to a 10-year period): See decadal and decennial
- (10-year anniversary): See decennial
- (rule by 10 people): See decemvirate
- (commander of 10 soldiers): See decener
- (chief of 10 men in early English law): See tithingman
- (payment or collection of a 10% tax): See tithe
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ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |
Anagrams edit
Atong (India) edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
ten (Bengali script তেন)
Synonyms edit
References edit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.
Bislama edit
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Cardinal : ten | ||
Etymology edit
Numeral edit
ten
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ten
Usage notes edit
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.
Cornish edit
Noun edit
ten
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten
Declension edit
singular | ||||
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masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | ten | ta | to | |
genitive | toho | té | toho | |
dative | tomu | té | tomu | |
accusative | toho | ten | tu | to |
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 terms edit
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse teinn (“stick”).
Noun edit
ten
- a spindle; a rod or stick used together with a distaff to spin yarn
- in a spinning wheel or similar machine: the reel on which the finished yarn is spooled
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- håndten (“manual spindle”)
Further reading edit
- “ten” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Contraction edit
ten
- 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 notes edit
- 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 terms edit
- dientengevolge
- heden ten dage
- Sint Jan ten Heere
- ten aanzien van
- ten algemenen nutte
- ten behoeve van
- ten dode opgeschreven
- ten eerste
- ten gehore brengen
- ten gevolge van
- ten gunste van
- ten minste, tenminste
- ten naaste bij
- ten onrechte
- ten opzichte van
- ten slotte, tenslotte
- ten spijt
- ten tijde van
- ten zeerste
- tentoonstellen
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
- tem (Reintegrationist)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ten
- has; third-person singular present indicative of ter
- A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.
- Beer has a long history in Galicia.
- inflection of ter:
References edit
- “ten” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
- Romanization of 天
ten
Kabuverdianu edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese ter.
Verb edit
ten
Karaim edit
Etymology edit
From Ultimately from Middle Chinese 等 (MC tojX|tongX, “to equate”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (teŋ, “equal, equivalent, appropriate”); Crimean Tatar teñ, Karachay-Balkar тенг (teñ), Kumyk тенг (teñ), Urum тэнг (teŋ), Kazakh тең (teñ, “equal”), Southern Altai теҥ (teŋ, “equal”) Uzbek teng (“equal”), Turkish denk (“equal, equivalent”), Shor тең, Yakut тэҥ (teñ, “equal”).
Adjective edit
ten
References edit
- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ten”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Kashubian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten
- this (nearby)
Further reading edit
- Stefan Ramułt (1893) “ten”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego[4] (in Kashubian), page 213
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ten”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[5], volume 2, page 1130
- “ten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Lithuanian edit
Adverb edit
ten
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)
Declension edit
Masculine singular | Feminine singular | Neuter singular | Dual | Plural | |
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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 Dutch edit
Contraction edit
ten
Middle English edit
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Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenthe, tithe |
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English tīen.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
ten
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “ten, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
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 forms edit
Verb edit
ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)
- (transitive) To draw; lead.
- (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.
Conjugation edit
infinitive | (to) ten, te | ||
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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 terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).
Noun edit
ten
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic طَعْن (ṭaʕn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ten m or f
References edit
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[6], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 604
Old Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten
- this (nearby)
Declension edit
singular | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | ten | ta | to | |
genitive | toho | té | toho | |
dative | tomu | tej, téj | tomu | |
accusative | toho, ten | tu | to | |
locative | tom | tej, téj | tom | |
instrumental | tiem | tú | tiem | |
dual | ||||
masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | ta | tě | ||
genitive | tú | |||
dative | těma | |||
accusative | ta | tě | ||
locative | tú | |||
instrumental | těma | |||
plural | ||||
masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | ti | ty | ta | |
genitive | těch | |||
dative | těm | |||
accusative | ty | ta | ||
locative | těch | |||
instrumental | těmi |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Czech: ten
See also edit
References edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ten”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
See tien
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
tēn
References edit
- A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123
Old Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten
- this (nearby)
Declension edit
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
References edit
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “ten”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Pipil edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nahuan *teːn-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
-tēn (plural -tejtēn)
- mouth
- Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka
- You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby
- edge, brim
- Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul
- Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug
- opening
- Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten
- They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)
Derived terms edit
- -tēnpan (“edge”)
- -tēnshīpal (“lip”)
- -tēntzun (“moustache” or “beard”)
- tēnkal (“door”, “doorway”)
- tēntzin (“window”)
- tēntzakka (“lid” or “door”)
- -tēnnāmiki (“to kiss”)
- tēnpēlua (“to open one's mouth”)
Noun edit
-tēn
- on the edge, outside
- Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput
- They waited outside the cave
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish ten. Cognate with Russian тот (tot), Lithuanian tas, Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), German der (“the”), English the.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten
- this (nearby)
Usage notes edit
1The feminine accusative singular form tą is proscribed, but overall much more common.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Particle edit
ten
- filler word
- A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...
Trivia edit
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ten is one of the 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, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5743 times, making it the 10th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References edit
Further reading edit
- ten in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ten in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “TEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2008 December 2
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego[7]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[8]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego[9] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 42
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ten n (plural tenuri)
Declension edit
Scots edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English ten.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
ten
References edit
- Andy Eagle, ed., (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ten m
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ten”, 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, 2024
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ten
Sranan Tongo edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ten
- time
- 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
Sumerian edit
Romanization edit
ten
- Romanization of 𒋼 (ten)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
ten c
Declension edit
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Nominative | ten | tenen | tenar | tenarna |
Genitive | tens | tenens | tenars | tenarnas |
See also edit
Tiang edit
Noun edit
ten
Further reading edit
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Tok Pisin edit
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Etymology edit
Numeral edit
ten
Usage notes edit
Used when counting; see also tenpela.
Coordinate terms edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن (ten), from Persian تن (tan).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)
Declension edit
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References edit
- “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982