ty

See also: Ty, -ty, ty., .ty, Tý, tŷ, tỷ, and Tỵ

Contents

English

Interjection

ty

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thank you.

Related terms

• tysm
• tyvm

See also

• thx

Anagrams

• YT, yt

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tə̟i̯]

Noun

ty (plural [please provide])

1. season

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Cornish) te

Pronoun

ty

1. you (informal second person singular pronoun)
2. thou
3. thee

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪ/

• audio

  (file)

Pronoun

ty

1. (personal) you (second person singular)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ty	vy
genitive	tebe/tě	vás
dative	tobě/ti	vám
accusative	tebe/tě	vás
vocative	-	-
locative	tobě	vás
instrumental	tebou	vámi

See also

• já
• my
• on
• ona
• oni
• ono
• ony
• vy

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Guaraní

Noun

ty

1. urine

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈc]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈceː]

Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z, Zs zs

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɨ]

Pronoun

ty sg

1. you (singular, informal)

Declension

Declension of the second-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ty	wej	wy
Genitive	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Dative	śi tebje¹	wama	wam
Accusative	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Instrumental	tobu	wama	wami
Locative	tebje	wama	was
Possessive determiner	twój	waju	waš

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

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Middle English

Determiner

ty

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi

References

• “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɨ/

• audio

  (file)

Pronoun

ty

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

• Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

Declension

declension of ty

	singular
nominative	ty
genitive	ciebie/cię
dative	tobie/ci
accusative	ciebie/cię
instrumental	tobą
locative	tobie
vocative	ty

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading

• ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/

Pronoun

ty

1. you (personal, singular)

Declension

Declension of ty

	singular	plural
nominative	ty	vy
genitive	ťa, teba	vás
dative	ti, tebe	vám
accusative	ťa, teba	vás
locative	tebe	vás
instrumental	tebou	vami

See also

• Ty
• ja
• my
• on
• ona
• oni
• ono
• ony
• vy

Further reading

• ty in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Conjunction

ty

1. (archaic, poetic) because, therefore

Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

• Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
• Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

Synonyms

• därför att
• eftersom
• emedan
• för

Verb

ty

1. to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.

   När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar

   When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ty (weak)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	ty	—
Present tense	tyr	—
Past tense	tydde	—
Supine	tytt	—
Imperative	ty	—
Present participle	tyende
Past participle	—

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

ty

1. you, thou

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Westrobothnian

Verb

ty

1. Alternative form of tyd

Adjective

ty

1. Alternative form of tyd