te - synonyms, antonyms, definitions

te

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of te in English

English Online Dictionary. What means te‎? What does te mean?

Translingual

Symbol

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Telugu.

English

Etymology 1

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti; the vowel was then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiː/
Rhymes: -iː
Homophones: T, tea, tee, ti

Noun

te (plural tes)

(music) In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.

Synonyms

ta
B-flat
li

Etymology 2

Noun

te (plural tes)

The name of the unspecified script letter Т / т.

Anagrams

-et, ET, Et, et

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch te.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/

Adverb

indicating excess: too

Preposition

modifying an infinitive verb: to
located at, in

Äiwoo

Verb

to see

References

Ross, M., & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Akan

Alternative forms

tse (Fante)

Pronunciation

Tone: L

Verb

to understand, perceive
to hear

References

Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎^[1], Basel, page 476

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *te-k(u), from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“it”). Governs the nominative determinative, due to its relatively recent use as a preposition and its origin as a shortened form of Albanian *te-k(u).

Preposition

te (+ nominative)

at
to
(with a human referent) at (someone's) place

Synonyms

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin te. Akin to Spanish te and French te.

Pronoun

Second-person singular dative, accusative and prepositional pronoun; you

Usage notes

Takes the form t' before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.

References

“te”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin tē, from tū.

Pronoun

you (second-person singular direct pronoun)
you (second-person singular indirect pronoun)

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

Etymology 1

Noun

te inan

Etymology 2

Noun

te inan

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Declension

Blagar

Noun

wood, tree

References

A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
Stokhof (1975)

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ti, from Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate to Welsh ti.

Pronoun

you (singular)

Catalan

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte]
Homophone: té
Rhymes: -e

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Etymology 2

From Latin tē (accusative of tū).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tə]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [te]

Pronoun

te (enclitic, contracted 't, proclitic et, contracted proclitic t')

you, thee (direct or indirect object)
yourself (reflexive pronoun)

Usage notes

-te is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.
Puc ajudar-te? ― Can I help you?

Mou-te! ― Move!

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 3

Originally from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈte]
Rhymes: -ɛ

Noun

te m (plural tes)

a tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
tea; the product made from the leaves of the tea plant
tea; a light afternoon meal at which tea is commonly served

Derived terms

joc de te
planta del te
tetera

Classical Nahuatl

Pronoun

Alternative spelling of teh

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

stone

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ti, from Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Alternative forms

ty (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

you (informal second person singular pronoun), thou, thee

Etymology 2

From English tea from Dutch thee

Noun

te m (plural teow)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]
Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

(informal) Combined form of to +‎ je

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

(second-person singular pronoun) you, thou

Related terms

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈteːˀ/, [ˈtˢe̝ːˀ], [ˈtsʰe̝ˀ]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê, “tea”), compare English tea, German Tee, French thé.

Alternative forms

the (unofficial since 1872, but still common)

Noun

te c (singular definite teen, plural indefinite teer)

tea (plant) (Camellia sinensis)
tea (the dried leaves from the tea plant, also parts from other plants)
(uncountable) tea (a beverage made from tea leaves, also similar beverages made from other plants)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Faroese: te

References

“te,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
“Te,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tjá, from Proto-Germanic *tīhaną (“to show”), cognate with Icelandic tjá, Faroese tíggja, Swedish te, German zeihen (“to accuse”). The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”), which is also the source of Latin dīcō (“to say”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”).

Verb

te (present tense ter, past tense teede, past participle teet)

(reflexive) behave

Conjugation

Derived terms

bete

References

“te,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
“te,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Deg Xinag

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰe/

Noun

water

References

S. Hargus, Vowel quality and duration in Deg Xinag

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch te, from Old Dutch te, ti, from Proto-Germanic *ta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/

Adverb

too (indicating excess)
Te veel is nooit goed! ― Too much is never good!

Te gek! ― Far out! (literally, “Too crazy!”)

Derived terms

Descendants

Negerhollands: tu, tee
Petjo: te

Preposition

(modifying an infinitive verb) to
located at, in, on

Derived terms

Descendants

Jersey Dutch: te
Negerhollands: toe

Article

(archaic) in idiom; a form of the definite article de

Usage notes

This preposition used to govern the dative case. It also fused with the dative forms of the definite article:

(at, in): ter = te + der for feminine singular.
(at, in): ten = te + den in all other cases.

Combinations with the nominative form of the article, like *te het or *te de have never become part of the language. The collapse of the inflection system and the related demise of the distinction between masculine and feminine gender (for most speakers) has pushed this preposition into partial disuse. It does however occur in a fair number of idiomatic expressions, often with fossilized case endings, e.g.:

te elfder ure. ― at the eleventh hour

te eigen bate ― for one's own profit

(Elfder, ure and bate are dative forms of elfde, uur and baat respectively.)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tek.

Pronoun

te (short form of teie)

you (plural and polite form)

Declension

Ewe

Noun

paternal aunt
yam

Preposition

under

Verb

to compact
to compress
to sting
to swell

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese te, from Latin tē.

Pronoun

Second person singular dative and accusative pronoun; you

Usage notes

Takes the form -ti when suffixed to an impersonal verb form.

References

Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰeː/
Rhymes: -eː
Homophone: teg

Etymology 1

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, plural te)

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Declension

Etymology 2

Originally from Hokkien 茶 (tê), from Middle Chinese, from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, uncountable)

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

Finnish

Alternative forms

Te (when used politely)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tek, from Proto-Uralic *te. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (tet).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈte/, [ˈt̪e̞]
Rhymes: -e
Hyphenation^(key): te

Pronoun

(personal) you (second-person plural; when addressing many persons or when addressing politely or formally one person)

Usage notes

Depending on the context, the pronoun can sometimes be omitted in written language if the text remains fluent – the pronoun is in spoken language practically always used (compare the usage of sinä (“you sg”)).
When addressing one person politely or formally, it is recommended to capitalize the pronoun in writing: Te.
When addressing only one person (even politely), the active past participle must be in the singular in the compound forms that use it (e.g. negative, perfect, pluperfect forms):
- Te ette ollut täällä silloin. (negative past indicative) ― You were not here at that time.
- Te olette ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect indicative) ― You have been here at that time.
- Te ette ole ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect indicative) ― You have not been here at that time.
- Te olisitte ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect conditional) ― You would have been here at that time.
- Te ette olisi ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect conditional) ― You would have not been here at that time.
- Te lienette ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative present perfect potential) ― You have probably been here at that time.
- Te ette liene ollut täällä silloin. (negative present perfect potential) ― You haven't probably been here at that time.
- Te olitte ollut täällä silloin. (affirmative past perfect indicative) ― You had been here at that time.
- Te ette ollut ollut täällä silloin. (negative past perfect indicative; note the duplicate ollut) ― You had not been here at that time.

Declension

Irregular (inflectional stem tei-, as if in the plural). The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
In addition to the standard set of cases, te and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, teidät.
See this appendix for information on the dialectal variants of te.

Synonyms

tet (dialectal)
työ (dialectal)

Derived terms

Descendants

Kven: tet

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tū.

Pronoun

te (prevocalic t', postpositive -tu) (ORB, broad)

you (second-person singular nominative)

References

tu in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
te in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

From Middle French te, from Old French te, from Latin tē, (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/
Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

(direct object) you
Il te cite souvent. ― He often quotes you.
(indirect object) you
Il te donne le livre. ― He gives you the book.
(reflexive pronoun) yourself
Tu te souviens d’elle. ― You remember her. (literally, “You remind yourself of her.”)

Related terms

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

inflection of ti:
1. accusative
2. reflexive

Related terms

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Etymology 1

From French été (“been”).

Adverb

Indicates the past or pluperfect tense.

Etymology 2

From French thé (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Noun

Hawaiian

Article

Niʻihau form of ke (“the”)

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Uralic root *tinä as e.g. Finnish sinä, Erzya тон (ton), Eastern Mari тый (tyj) and Komi-Zyrian тэ (te).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]
Rhymes: -tɛ

Pronoun

(personal) you (second-person singular, nominative, informal form)

Declension

Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, te is optional and only serves for emphasis.

tealattad, teáltalad, teelőtted etc. (te + a postposition with the second-person singular personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
teneked, teveled, tehozzád etc. (te + one of the declined forms listed in the chart above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

References

Hunsrik

Article

te (Wiesemann spelling)

Alternative spelling of de

Icelandic

Etymology

From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰɛː/
Rhymes: -ɛː

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, no plural)

Declension

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

From t +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, /tɛ/

Noun

te (plural te-i)

The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch tee.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/, [ˈt̪ɛ]

Noun

tè

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Synonyms

ti (Standard Malay)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish té (“hot”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʲɛ(h)/

Adjective

te (genitive singular masculine te, genitive singular feminine te, plural teo, comparative teo or teocha)

hot, warm
pungent
ardent, hot-tempered; vehement, hotfoot
affectionate
comfortable (of circumstances)

Declension

Alternative comparative form: teocha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

alathe
bogthe
buidéal te

Related terms

teas

Mutation

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tē, from tū.

Pronunciation

(clitic) IPA^(key): /te/
- Hyphenation: te
(disjunctive) IPA^(key): /ˈte/^*
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: té

Pronoun

(disjunctive, emphatic) you

Pronoun

(clitic) Alternative form of ti

Usage notes

Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

The hiragana syllable て (te) or the katakana syllable テ (te) in Hepburn romanization.

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit तद् (tád), from Proto-Indo-European *tód.

Pronoun

they, them (absent from speaker) (3rd-person plural personal pronoun)

Coordinate terms

éli

Kholosi

Etymology

Cognate with Sindhi تي (te), Punjabi 'ਤੇ ('te).

Postposition

References

Rezaei, Tahereh (2020) First notes on the syntax of Kholosi as a heritage language in the south of Iran‎^[4], Hormozgan Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts & Tourism Organization

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kute as an equivalent of English throw in the “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ/

Verb

te (infinitive gũte)

to throw away
tũteaga ― we (usually) throw away

References

Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Ladin

Preposition

in, into

Derived terms

tl
tla
ti
tles

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /teː/, [t̪eː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪ɛː]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tē f (indeclinable)

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Coordinate terms

(Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

References

te in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
te in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
te in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronoun

tē

accusative/ablative singular of tū

Descendants

Latvian

Pronunciation

Adverb

here

Conjunction

now..., now...
te šur, te tur ― now here, now there

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian te. The interjection is identical to Ancient Greek τῆ (tê, “here!, take this!”), which Beekes derives from Proto-Indo-European *teh₁, the instrumental neuter singular form of *tód. Compare Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌸𐌴 (biþē, “while”), 𐌳𐌿𐌸𐌴 (duþē, “therefore”), Tocharian A ca-, Tocharian B ce (“demonstrative pronoun”) < *tē, and possibly Old Armenian թէ (tʻē, “that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʲɛ/

Particle

tè

(with third person) may, let (used to indicate the optative mood)
Šì naktìs tè niẽkad nesibaĩgia. - May this night never end.

Interjection

tè

(with object cases) here you go, take this (when giving something to someone)
Tè táu pinigų̃ – pir̃k tù sáu laũko kókį sklypẽlį. ― Here, have some money, go buy yourself a piece of land.

Synonyms

Derived terms

see te-
bet
net

References

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tɛ]

Determiner

nominative/accusative plural of ten

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tè.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛː/

Noun

te m (plural tejiet)

Manchu

Romanization

Romanization of ᡨᡝ

Mandarin

Romanization

te (te⁵／te⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄜ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脦

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of tē.
Nonstandard spelling of tè.
Nonstandard spelling of tê̄.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maori

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Compare Hawaiian ka (“the”). Resemblance to English the is incidental, but might have been reinforced by it.

Article

te sg (plural ngā)

Determiner

te sg (plural ngā)

Referring to a whole class of things or people designated by the noun that follows.
Mr, mister, sir (capitalised)
Used in front of another verb following a stative.
Used in front of another verb following taea.
Used before the names for the days of the week.
Sometimes used before numbers with a following noun.
Used before ordinal numbers including those using tua-.

References

“te” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Meriam

Noun

mouth
door

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch te, from Proto-Germanic *ta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/

Preposition

at, in (a place)
to, towards
at, during (a time)
for (the purpose of)
in accordance with
with, from (a means, such as language)
(with gerund) to, for

Alternative forms

toe (eastern)

Descendants

Dutch: te
Limburgish: te, tö

Adverb

very, particularly
too, to an excessive degree

Alternative forms

toe (eastern)

Descendants

Dutch: te

Middle English

Pronoun

Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Middle French

Alternative forms

t' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Old French te.

Pronoun

you, second-person singular object pronoun
to you, second-person singular indirect object pronoun

Synonyms

(second-person singular object and indirect object pronoun): toy (with verbs in the imperative)
(second-person singular object and indirect object pronoun): vous (used as a mark of formality or respect)

Descendants

French: te

Mohawk

Particle

used with iah to negate a sentence

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/
Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

you (singular familiar, accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)

Coordinate terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

From Dutch thee.

Noun

te m (definite singular teen)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tjá.

Verb

te (imperative te, present tense ter, passive tes, simple past tedde, past participle tedd, present participle teende)

(reflexive) to behave

References

“te” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

From Dutch thee.

Noun

te m (definite singular teen)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tjá.

Verb

te (present tense ter, past tense tedde, past participle tedd or tett, passive infinitive teast, present participle teande, imperative te)

(reflexive) to behave

Etymology 3

From Old Norse til.

Preposition

(dialectal, Trøndelag, Østlandet) Alternative form of til

References

“te” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

te f (plural tes)

tee (the letter t, T)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ta (“to”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Preposition

Related terms

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tē.

Pronoun

you (second-person singular direct object pronoun)
to you (second-person singular indirect object pronoun)
yourself (second-person singular direct object reflexive pronoun)
to yourself (second-person singular indirect object reflexive pronoun)

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

masculine nominative/accusative plural of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

nominative/accusative plural of ta (“they”)
instrumental/dative/genitive singular of tvaṃ (“you”)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese até.

Adjective

until, till, up to, up until

Phuthi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

té

just, only, however

Relative

-té

naked

Inflection

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/
Rhymes: -ɛ
Syllabification: te
Homophone: tę

Pronoun

te m

nonvirile nominative/accusative plural of ten

Pronoun

te f

nominative/accusative plural of ta

Pronoun

te n

nominative/accusative plural of to

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese te, from Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: te

Pronoun

(object pronoun) you (singular)
particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:te.

Rapa Nui

Article

te (pl te mau)

the (the definite article)

Romani

Conjunction

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/
Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

te (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

(direct object) you
(reflexive pronoun) yourself

Derived terms

te rog

Related terms

tine
tu

Romansch

Alternative forms

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) té
(Puter, Vallader) tè

Noun

te m

(Sursilvan) tea

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronoun

te (Cyrillic spelling те)

of you (clitic genitive singular of tȋ (“you”))
you (clitic accusative singular of tȋ (“you”))
feminine nominative plural of taj: those (= one)
Tko su te žene? ― Who are those women?

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *ta. Compare Ukrainian та (ta).

Conjunction

te (Cyrillic spelling те)

and (following a cause; lit. and thereby, and thus)
and, and then (before the last thing in order of mention or occurrence)
(Croatia) now (chiefly used in stock phrases)

Sicilian

Alternative forms

tè, té, the (misspelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from French thé, from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ/ (Standard)
Hyphenation: te

Noun

te m

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/ [t̪e]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: te
Homophone: té

Etymology 1

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Etymology 2

From Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronoun

dative of tú: to you, for you
accusative of tú: you
(reflexive pronoun) yourself

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Etymology 1

From English then.

Conjunction

when

Etymology 2

From English till or Dutch te.

Preposition

until

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dutch thee.

Noun

Descendants

→ Aukan: te
→ Saramaccan: té

Sumerian

Romanization

Romanization of 𒋼

Swedish

Alternative forms

the, thé

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Homophones: t, T
Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

From either French thé or German Tee, ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Noun

te n

tea (the tree, its dried leaves and the drink made from them)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Finnish: tee

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish tēa, from Old Norse tjá, from Proto-Germanic *tīhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-. Cognate of Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan), German zeihen, Dutch tijgen.

Verb

te (present ter, preterite tedde, supine tett, imperative te)

(reflexive) to appear

Conjugation

Related terms

bete
förete

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling of till, for some dialects.

Preposition

Synonym of till

Usage notes

Rarely in written form unless imitating speech.

References

te in Svensk ordbok (SO)
te in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
te in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: te
Homophone: Te

Etymology 1

Noun

te (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ) (colloquial)

Clipping of ate.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish te, the Spanish name of the letter T/t.

Noun

te (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ) (historical)

the name of the Latin-script letter T/t, in the Abecedario
Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ti, (in the Abakada alphabet) ta

Tahitian

Article

te (plural sometimes te mau)

the (singular) (definite article)
the (plural) (definite article)
(conversationally) a, an (indefinite article)

References

Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
“te” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *te. Cognates include Hawaiian ke and Samoan le.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [te]
Hyphenation: te

Article

Singular definite article; the

Derived terms

References

R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 379

Tongan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Article

the (definite article)

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Etymology 2

Noun

Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ت

Etymology 3

Adverb

Alternative form of ta

Turkmen

Noun

te (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Tuvaluan

Article

the (definite article)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

road, way

Inflection

Derived terms

References

Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “дорога, трасса”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[6], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Adverb

only, solely, merely
but

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea, from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê), probably via French thé or English tea.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Rhymes: -eː

Noun

te m (uncountable)

(uncountable) tea (drink made with infusion of Camellia sinensis or other leaves)
tea (main evening meal)
Synonym: swper

Derived terms

Mutation

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “te”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Makian

Etymology 1

From Malay teh, possibly through Ternate tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪e/

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪e/

Conjunction

so; so that
Synonym: supaya

References

Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[7], Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *tæwᶜ (“frost”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te˧/

Noun

te (classifier: cov)

frost

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[8], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 312.

Zia

Noun

foot

te

te

Translingual

Symbol

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

Preposition

Äiwoo

Verb

References

Akan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

References

Albanian

Etymology

Preposition

Synonyms

Aragonese

Etymology

Pronoun

Usage notes

See also

References

Asturian

Etymology

Pronoun

Basque

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

See also

Blagar

Noun

References

Breton

Etymology

Pronoun

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Usage notes

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Classical Nahuatl

Pronoun

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

Cornish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronoun

Etymology 2

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb