tn

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

Translingual

Symbol

tn

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

English

Noun

tn

1. (chiefly UK, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of trillion.

Alternative forms

• tn.
• tln / tln.

Coordinate terms

• bn
• mn

Adverb

tn (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tonight.

Anagrams

• -n't, NT, n't, n/t

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: ten

Determiner

 f sg proximal demonstrative determiner

1. this, that

Usage notes

This demonstrative was originally a determiner but could later be used alone, like a pronoun. When used as a determiner it follows the noun it describes.

It forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative tf, in which tn is proximal.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Pronoun

 pl and f sg 2. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

1. Variant spelling of ṯn

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 51, 54–55.
• Edel, Elmar (1955-1964) Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

Estonian

Noun

tn

1. Abbreviation of tänav.