te

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Translingual

Symbol

te

(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

Noun

te (plural tes)

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

Anagrams

-et, ET, Et, et

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch te.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/
Audio (file)

Adverb

te

indicating excess: too

Preposition

te

modifying an infinitive verb: to
located at, in

Aiwoo

Verb

te

to see

References

Ross, M., & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 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[1]

Verb

te

to understand, perceive
to hear

References

Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎, 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
Unë jam te pijetorja.
I'm at the bar.
to
(with a human referent) at (someone's) place
Jemi te unë.
We're at my place.

Synonyms

tek

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

te

you, thee (second-person singular direct pronoun)
(to) you, (to) thee (second-person singular indirect pronoun)

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin tē, from tū.

Pronoun

te

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

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

Noun

te inan

tea

Noun

te inan

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Declension of te (inanimate, ending in vowel)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	te	tea	teak
ergative	tek	teak	teek
dative	teri	teari	teei
genitive	teren	tearen	teen
comitative	terekin	tearekin	teekin
causative	terengatik	tearengatik	teengatik
benefactive	terentzat	tearentzat	teentzat
instrumental	tez	teaz	teez
inessive	tetan	tean	teetan
locative	tetako	teko	teetako
allative	tetara	tera	teetara
terminative	tetaraino	teraino	teetaraino
directive	tetarantz	terantz	teetarantz
destinative	tetarako	terako	teetarako
ablative	tetatik	tetik	teetatik
partitive	terik	—	—
prolative	tetzat	—	—

Blagar

Noun

te

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

te

you (singular)

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈte/
Audio (Valencian) (file)
Homophone: té
Rhymes: -e

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 2

From Latin tē (accusative of tū).

Pronunciation

(Central, Balearics) /tə/
(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

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi³	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic¹	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal¹	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal²	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’⁴	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal²	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
¹⁾ Behaves grammatically as plural. ²⁾ Behaves grammatically as third person.			³⁾ Only as object of a preposition. ⁴⁾ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Related terms

et
tu

Etymology 3

Originally from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/
Rhymes: -ɛ

Noun

te m (plural tes)

the 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

Classical Nahuatl

Pronoun

te

Alternative spelling of teh

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

te

stone

Cornish

Alternative forms

ty (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

te

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

Noun

te

tea

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]
Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

te

(informal) Combined form of to +‎ je

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

te

(second-person singular pronoun) you, thou

Related terms

toi

Danish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 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 (the 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)

Inflection

Declension of te

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	te	teen	teer	teerne
genitive	tes	teens	teers	teernes

Derived terms

citronte
hybente
kamillete
myntete
teblad
tebrev
tedåse
tehandel
tekande
tekop
tekrus
teplantage
teplante
teplukker
tepotte
tesalon
teselskab
tesi
tesort
tevand
urtete

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

Inflection

Inflection of te

	present	past
simple	ter	teede
perfect	har teet	havde teet
passive	—	—
participle	teende	teet
imperative	te	—
infinitive	te	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	teen	—

Derived terms

bete

References

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

Deg Xinag

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰe/

Noun

te

water

References

S. Hargus, Vowel quality and duration in Deg Xinag

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/
audio (file)

Adverb

te

too (indicating excess)
Te veel is nooit goed! ― Too much is never good!
Te gek! ― Far out! (literally, “Too crazy!”)

Descendants

Negerhollands: tu, tee
Petjo: te

Preposition

te

(modifying an infinitive verb) to
Er is iets te eten
there is something to eat
located at, in, on
Te Amsterdam
in Amsterdam.
En zo rijden we te paard
and so we ride on horseback.

Derived terms

te over
te pas en te onpas
te voet
te weten
te zijner tijd

Descendants

Jersey Dutch: te
Negerhollands: toe

Article

te

(archaic) in idiom; a form of the definite article de
Te drommel
by Jove.

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)

Ewe

Noun

te

paternal aunt
yam

Preposition

te

under

Verb

te

to compact
to compress
to sting
to swell

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese te, from Latin tē.

Pronoun

te

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 [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 265

Faroese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, plural te)

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Declension of te
n4	singular		plural
n4	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	te	teið	te	teini
accusative	te	teið	te	teini
dative	te, tei	tenum	teum	teunum
genitive	tes	tesins	tea	teanna

Etymology 2

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

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, uncountable)

tea

Declension

Declension of te (singular only)
n4s	singular
n4s	indefinite	definite
nominative	te	teið
accusative	te	teið
dative	te, tei	tenum
genitive	tes	tesins

Derived terms

grønt te
hvítt te
reytt te
svart te
teblað
tebræv
tekanna
tekoppur
temuður

Anagrams

et

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
Syllabification^(key): te

Pronoun

te (stem tei-)

(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 politely or formally one person in a written form, it is recommendable to capitalize the pronoun: Te.
When addressing one person, the active past participle must be singular in negative past indicative, in present perfect of all moods both affirmative and negative and past perfect indicative — because there is one person addressed:

Te ette ollut täällä silloin. ― You were not here at that time.
(negative past indicative)
Te olette ollut täällä silloin. ― You have been here at that time.
(affirmative present perfect indicative)
Te ette ole ollut täällä silloin. ― You have not been here at that time.
(negative present perfect indicative)
Te olisitte ollut täällä silloin. ― You would have been here at that time.
(affirmative present perfect conditional)
Te ette olisi ollut täällä silloin. ― You would have not been here at that time.
(negative present perfect conditional)
Te lienette ollut täällä silloin. ― You have probably been here at that time.
(affirmative present perfect potential)
Te ette liene ollut täällä silloin. ― You haven't probably been here at that time.
(negative present perfect potential)
Te olitte ollut täällä silloin. ― You had been here at that time.
(affirmative past perfect indicative)
Te ette ollut ollut täällä silloin. ― You had not been here at that time.
(negative past perfect indicative; note ollut twice)

Declension

Irregular. 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.

Declension of te

noun case	singular	plural
nominative	sinä	te
genitive	sinun	teidän
partitive	sinua	teitä
accusative	sinut	teidät
inessive	sinussa	teissä
elative	sinusta	teistä
illative	sinuun	teihin
adessive	sinulla	teillä
ablative	sinulta	teiltä
allative	sinulle	teille
essive	sinuna	teinä
translative	sinuksi	teiksi
instructive	–	–
abessive	sinutta	teittä
comitative	–	–

Synonyms

tet (dialectal)
työ (dialectal)

Derived terms

teititellä (verb)

Descendants

Kven: tet

Anagrams

et

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/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

te

(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) yourself
Tu te souviens d'elle. ― You remember her. (literally, “You remind yourself of her.”)

Related terms

French personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative (subject)	Accusative (direct complement)	Dative (indirect complement)	Locative (at)	Genitive (of)	Disjunctive (tonic)
Singular	First	—	je, j’	me, m’		—	—	moi
	Second	—	tu	te, t’		—	—	toi
	Third	Masculine	il	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui
		Feminine	elle	la, l’	lui	y	en	elle
		Indeterminate	on¹	—	—	—	—	—
		Reflexive	—	se, s’⁴		—	—	soi⁴
Plural	First	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous
	Second	—	vous²	vous²^,3		—	—	vous²
	Third	Masculine	ils³	les	leur	y	en	eux³
	Third	Feminine	elles	les	leur	y	en	elles

¹ Also used as the first person plural.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

³ Also used when a group has both men and women.

⁴ Also used as third person plural reflexive.

Anagrams

et

Galician

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

te

inflection of ti:
1. accusative
2. reflexive

Related terms

té

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French été (“been”).

Adverb

te

Indicates the past or pluperfect tense.

Hawaiian

Article

te

Niʻihau form of ke (“the”)
Te kula.
The school.

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -tɛ

Pronoun

te

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

Declension

declension of te

nominative	te
accusative	téged
dative	neked
instrumental	veled
causal-final	érted
inessive	benned
superessive	rajtad
adessive	nálad
illative	beléd
sublative	rád
allative	hozzád
elative	belőled
delative	rólad
ablative	tőled

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)

Icelandic

Etymology

From Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰɛː/
Rhymes: -ɛː

Noun

te n (genitive singular tes, no plural)

tea

Declension

declension of te

	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular
nominative	te	teið
accusative	te	teið
dative	tei	teinu
genitive	tes	tesins

Derived terms

grænt te
tebolli
tehetta
teketill
tepottur
tesía
teskeið

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, /tɛ/

Noun

te (plural te-i)

The name of the Latin script letter T/t.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish té (“hot”).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /tʲɛ(h)/[1]
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /tʲɛ/

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
(of circumstances) comfortable

Declension

Declension of te

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	te	the	teo; theo²
Vocative	the	the	teo
Genitive	the	te	teo	te
Dative	te; the¹	the	teo; theo²
Comparative	níos teo
Superlative	is teo

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Alternative comparative form: teocha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

alathe
buidéal te

Related terms

teas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
te	the	dte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tē, from tū.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

te

(disjunctive, emphatic) you

Pronoun

te

(clitic) Alternative form of ti

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

et

Japanese

Romanization

te

Rōmaji transcription of て
Rōmaji transcription of テ

Kalasha

Etymology

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

Pronoun

te

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

Coordinate terms

éli

Kholosi

Etymology

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

Postposition

te

to

References

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

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kute as an equivalent of English throw in the “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ/

Verb

te (infinitive gũte)

to throw away
tũteaga ― we (usually) throw away

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Ladin

Preposition

te

in, into

Derived terms

tl
tla
ti
tles

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /teː/, [t̪eː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪ɛː]
Audio (Classical) (file)

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.

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

Aromanian: ti
Asturian: te
Catalan: te
French: te, toi
Friulian: ti
Galician: te, che
Istriot: tèi, te
Italian: te, ti
Mozarabic: ت‎ (ti)
Portuguese: te
Romanian: te
Sicilian: ti
Spanish: te

Latvian

Adverb

te

here

Conjunction

te

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.[1] Compare Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌸𐌴 (biþē, “while”), 𐌳𐌿𐌸𐌴 (duþē, “therefore”), Tocharian A ca-, Tocharian B ce (“demonstrative pronoun”) < *tē[2], and possibly Old Armenian թէ (tʿē, “that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʲɛ/

Particle

te

(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.

Derived terms

see te-
bet
net

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Albert J. van Windekens (1979) Le tokharien confronté avec les autres langues indoeuropéennes. Vol. I. La phonétique et le vocabulaire. Louvain, page 249

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tɛ]

Determiner

te

nominative/accusative plural of ten

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tè.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛː/

Noun

te m (plural tejiet)

tea

Manchu

Romanization

te

Romanization of ᡨᡝ

Mandarin

Romanization

te (te⁵ / te⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄜ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脦.

te

Nonstandard spelling of tè.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate 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)

the
- 2006, Joanne Barker, Sovereignty Matters, page 208:
  Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori.
  The language is the life principle of Maori mana

Determiner

te sg (plural ngā)

Referring to a whole class of things or people designated by the noun that follows.
Kī tonu te wharenui i te tamariki.
The meeting house was full of children.
Mr, mister, sir (capitalised)
Kei Te Wharehuia, tēnei te mihi atu mō tō āwhina mai.
Wharehuia sir, thank you most sincerely for your help.
Used in front of another verb following a stative.
Kua oti i a au tāku pukapuka te tuhi.
I have finished writing my book.
Used in front of another verb following taea.
Ka taea e ia tēnei waiata te whakamāori.
She will be able to interpret this song.
Used before the names for the days of the week.
Ā te Rātapu mātou haere ai ki Poihākena.
We go to Sydney on Saturday.
Sometimes used before numbers with a following noun.
I tāwāhi a Pita mō te rima tau.
Peter was overseas for five years.
Used before ordinal numbers including those using tua-.
I piki a Tāne-nui-a-rangi ki te tuangahuru mā rua o ngā rangi.
Tāne-nui-a-rangi climbed to the twelfth realm.

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

te

mouth
door

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tə/

Preposition

te

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

te

very, particularly
too, to an excessive degree

Alternative forms

toe (eastern)

Descendants

Dutch: te

Middle English

Pronoun

te

Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Middle French

Alternative forms

t' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Old French te.

Pronoun

te

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

te

used with iah to negate a sentence

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

te

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

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

From Dutch thee.

Noun

te m (definite singular teen)

tea

Derived terms

iste
tefat
tekanne
tekjele
tekopp
telys
tepose
teskje, teskei
urtete

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)

tea

Derived terms

iste
tefat
tekanne
tekjele
tekopp
telys
tepose
teskei
urtete

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

te

(dialectal, Trøndelag, Østlandet) Alternative form of til

References

“te” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

te f (plural tes)

tee (the letter t, T)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ta (“to”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Preposition

te

to
Heom te cwæþ (He said to him)
Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 26, 21.
Ālēfed te habbanne (Allowed to have)
Swt. 445, 30: 50.

Related terms

te-

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tē.

Pronoun

te

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

𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
ते (Devanagari script)
তে (Bengali script)
තෙ (Sinhalese script)
တေ (Burmese script)
เต (Thai script)
ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
ເຕ (Lao script)
តេ (Khmer script)
𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

te

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

Pronoun

te

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

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese até.

Adjective

te

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

Relative concord, tone H
	Modifier	Copulative
1st singular	legite	gite
2nd singular	lote	ute
1st plural	lesite	site
2nd plural	lelite	lite
Class 1	lote	ute
Class 2	labate	bate
Class 3	lote	ute
Class 4	lete	ite
Class 5	lelite	lite
Class 6	late	ate
Class 7	lesite	site
Class 8	letite	tite
Class 9	lete	ite
Class 10	letite	tite
Class 14	lobute	bute
Class 15	lokute	kute
Class 17	lokute	kute

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ/
Audio (file)
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 Portuguese te, from Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /t(ɨ)/

Hyphenation: te

Pronoun

te

(object pronoun) you
Matar-te-ei; Te matarei;
I will kill you.
particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.
Vais-te muito cedo.
You leave too soon.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:te.

Rapa Nui

Article

te (pl te mau)

the (the definite article)

Romani

Conjunction

te

if

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
Știi cât de multte iubește?'
Do you know how much he loves you?
(reflexive) 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

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

Declension of te

	singular	plural
nominative	tȋ	vȋ
genitive	tȅbe, te	vȃs
dative	tȅbi, ti	vȁma, vam
accusative	tȅbe, te	vȃs
vocative	ti	vȋ
locative	tȅbi	vȁma
instrumental	tȍbōm	vȁma

Etymology

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

Conjunction

te (Cyrillic spelling те)

and (following a cause; lit. and thereby, and thus)
Poskliznuo sam se te pao.
I slipped and fell.
and, and then (before the last thing in order of mention or occurrence)
U posljednjih godinu dana bio sam u Beogradu, Zagrebu, Sarajevu te Podgorici.
In the past year, I have been to Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Podgorica.
Obukao sam se, izašao iz kuće, zaključao vrata te otišao na posao.
I got dressed up, got out of the house, locked the door and then went to work.
(Croatia) now (chiefly used in stock phrases)
Problemi gdje god pogledaš! Te tu, te tamo!
Problems, wherever you look! Now here, now there!

Sicilian

Alternative forms

tè, té, the (misspelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

te m

tea

Derived terms

tiera
tiina

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

te f (plural tes)

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

te

dative of tú: to you, for you
Te voy a hacer tus calzones...."La Cucaracha"
I’m going to make your britches
accusative of tú: you
(reflexive): yourself

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Etymology 1

From English then.

Conjunction

te

when

Preposition

te

until

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dutch thee.

Noun

te

tea

Sumerian

Romanization

te

Romanization of 𒋼 (te)

Swedish

te

Alternative forms

the, thé

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From either French thé or German Tee, from Chinese 茶 (Min Nan tê).

Noun

te n

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

Declension

Declension of te
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	te	teet	teer	teerna
Genitive	tes	teets	teers	teernas

Derived terms

fläderte
löste
silverte
tebjudning
teblad
teblask
tebord
tebricka
tebröd
tebuske
teceremoni
tedags
tedrickare
tefat
tegelte
teglas
tehus
tehuva
tekaka
tekanna
tekittel
tekokare
tekopp
tekula
tekök
teodling
teplantage
tepåse
teros
teservis
tesil
tesked
teskörd
tesort
tesupé
tevagn
tevatten
teveronika

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)

to appear
- Och gräshopporna tedde sig såsom hästar, rustade till strid.
  And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle (Revelations 9:7)

Conjugation

Conjugation of te (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	te		—
Supine	tett		—
Imperative	te		—
Imper. plural¹	ten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	ter	tedde	—	—
Ind. plural¹	te	tedde	—	—
Subjunctive²	te	tedde	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	teende
Past participle	—
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

bete
förete

References

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

Anagrams

-et

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): /ˈte/
Hyphenation: te

Article

te

Singular definite article; the

Derived terms

a te
ia te

References

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

Tongan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/

Article

te

the (definite article)

Turkish

Noun

te (definite accusative, plural teler)

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Noun

te

Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ت

Turkmen

Noun

te (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Turkmen|?]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Turkmen|?]])

The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Tuvaluan

Article

te

the (definite article)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

te

road, way

Inflection

Inflection of te (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing.	te
genitive sing.	ten
partitive sing.	ted
partitive plur.	teid
	singular	plural
nominative	te	ted
accusative	ten	ted
genitive	ten	teiden
partitive	ted	teid
essive-instructive	ten	tein
translative	teks	teikš

inessive	tes	teiš
elative	tespäi	teišpäi
illative	tehe	teihe

adessive	tel	teil
ablative	telpäi	teilpäi
allative	tele	teile

abessive	teta	teita
comitative	tenke	teidenke
prolative	tedme	teidme

approximative I	tenno	teidenno
approximative II	tennoks	teidennoks
egressive	tennopäi	teidennopäi

terminative I	tehesai	teihesai
terminative II	telesai	teilesai
terminative III	tessai	—

additive I	tehepäi	teihepäi
additive II	telepäi	teilepäi

Derived terms

ajandte
päavtote
pämante
päte
raudte
ristte
tedote
telikundankodvii
telämoi
tenkatkaidai
tenpäluz
tesar'
tever'
ujundte
ülituzte
šossete

References

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

Volapük

Adverb

te

only, solely, merely
but

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 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

amser te (“teatime”)
bag te (“teabag”)
bisgeden de (“tea biscuit”)
blwch te (“tea caddy”)
cist de (“tea chest”)
clwb te (“tea club”)
cwpanaid o de (“cup of tea”)
cwpan te (“teacup”)
dail te (“tea leaves”)
dawns amser tea (“tea dance”)
dŵr te (“water for brewing tea”)
dysglaid o de (“cup of tea”)
dysgl de (“teacup”)
fflasg de (“tea flask”)
gardd de (“tea garden”)
hambwrdd te (“tea tray”)
helygen dail te (“tea-leaved willow, Salix phylicifolia”)
hidlwr te (“tea strainer”)
llestri te (“tea set, tea things”)
llwy de (“teaspoon”)
llwyn te (“broom tea-tree, Leptospermum scoparium”)
llwyn-te gwlanog (“wooly tea-tee, Leptospermum lanigerum”)
paned o de (“cup of tea”)
pelen de (“teaball”)
planhigfa de (“tea plantation”)
rhosyn te (“tea rose”)
seremoni de (“tea ceremony”)
soser de (“saucer”)
tabi te (“tea tabby, Aglossa dimidiata”)
te bach (“light refreshment, afternoon tea”)
te bwtsiar (“tea made in the cup”)
te camomeil (“camomile tea”)
te cig eidion (“beef tea”)
te colsyn (“cinder tea”)
te dail (“leaf tea”)
te deg (“tea taken at 10:00 am”)
te du (“black tea”)
te gwyn (“white tea”)
te gwyrdd (“green tea”)
te Labrador (“Labrador-tea, Ledum palustre”)
te Mecsico (“Mexican tea, Chenopodium ambrosioides”)
te melyn (“yellow tea”)
te mintys (“mint tea”)
te padi (“tea made in the cup”)
te perlysiau (“herbal tea”)
te perlysieuol (“herbal tea”)
te pinsh (“tea made in the cup”)
te slecyn (“cinder tea”)
te tramp (“tea made in the cup; stewed tea”)
te ŵlong (“oolong tea”)
troli te (“tea trolley”)
tun te (“tea tin”)
tŷ te (“teahouse”)
wrn te (“tea urn”)
ystafell de (“tearoom”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
te	de	nhe	the
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Makian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪e/

Noun

te

tea

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪e/

Conjunction

te

so; so that
Synonym: supaya

References

Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Westrobothnian

Interjection

te

Quiet!
te, fa lonaǃ ― Quiet, listenǃ
Synonym: töst

Zia

Noun

te

foot

[1] Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

[2] Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59

[hh1904-3] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[4] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[5] Albert J. van Windekens (1979) Le tokharien confronté avec les autres langues indoeuropéennes. Vol. I. La phonétique et le vocabulaire. Louvain, page 249

te

Translingual

Symbol

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Noun

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

Preposition

Aiwoo

Verb

References

Akan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

References

Albanian

Etymology

Preposition

Synonyms

Aragonese

Etymology

Pronoun

Asturian

Etymology

Pronoun

Basque

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Further reading

Classical Nahuatl

Pronoun

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

Cornish

Alternative forms

Pronoun

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

See also

Dalmatian

Etymology

Pronoun

Related terms

See also

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms