ten

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Alternative forms

Ten, TEN

Etymology

Borrowed from English ten.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn/

Noun

ten

(international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

**English numbers ^(edit)**
		100
← 1	← 9	10	11 →	20 →
		1
Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Germanic collective: tensome Collective of n parts: 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

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Etymology

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

(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĕn IPA^(key): /tɛn/, [tʰɛn]
IPA^(key): /tɪn/ (pin–pen merger)
Audio (US, Inland Northern American): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛn, (pin–pen merger) -ɪn
Homophone: tin (pin–pen merger)

Numeral

ten

The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
- 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:
  There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

Related terms

tenth

Translations

See ten/translations § Numeral.

Noun

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.
- 1958 May, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392:
  They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
(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:
  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:
  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

Previous: nine (9)
Next: eleven (11)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral or noun ten

Related terms

Translations

set or group with ten elements

Azerbaijani: on dənə, on nəfər, onluq
Bashkir: унау (unaw)
Catalan: desena (ca)
Finnish: kymmenen (fi) (attribute, use with ryhmä, kasa, nippu etc.), kymmenikkö (fi)
French: dizaine (fr)
Greek: δεκάδα (el) (dekáda)
Hindi: दस (hi) m (das), दश (hi) m (daś), दह (hi) m (dah)
Polish: dziesiątka (pl) f
Russian: деся́ток (ru) m (desjátok)
Spanish: decena (es)
Swedish: tia (sv) c
Urdu: دَہَائی f (dahāī)

inexact quantity

Finnish: kymmen (fi)

playing card with a value of ten

Czech: desítka (cs) f
Estonian: kümme (et)
Finnish: kymppi (fi)
German: Zehner (de) m
Hindi: दहला (hi) (dahlā)
Spanish: diez (es) m
Swedish: tia (sv) c

denomination of currency with a value of ten

Finnish: kymppi (fi)
German: Zehnerl (de)
Italian: dieci (it)
Swedish: tia (sv) c

perfect specimen

Finnish: täysi kymppi

slang: high level of intensity

Finnish: kybä (fi)

rowing: act of rowing ten strokes flat out

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Afrikaans: tien (af)
Albanian: dhjetë (sq)
Amharic: አስር (ʾäsr)
Arabic: عَشَرَة (ar) m (ʕašara), عَشْر f (ʕašr) (numeral: ١٠ (10))
Egyptian Arabic: عشرة (ʕašaṛa)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܥܣܪܐ m (ʿesrā), ܥܣܪ f (ʿəsar)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: עַסְרָא m (ʿasrā), עֲסַר f (ʿăsar)

Western Neo-Aramaic: ܐܥܣܪ m (ʾeʿsar), ܥܣܪܐ f (ʿasraʾ)
Armenian: տասը (hy) (tasə), տասն (hy) (tasn)
Asturian: diez (ast) m
Bashkir: ун (un)
Basque: hamar (eu)
Belarusian: дзяся́тка (dzjasjátka)
Bengali: দশ (bn) (doś)
Bulgarian: десет (deset)
Burmese: တဆယ် (my) (ta.hcai)
Catalan: deu (ca) m (1,2,3)
Cebuano: napulo
Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča-
Chichewa: khumi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 十 (zh) (shí)
Corsican: deci (co)
Czech: pětka (cs) f (3)
Danish: tital n (1), tier c (2, 3)
Dutch: tien (nl) f (1,2), tientje (nl) n (3)
Esperanto: dek (eo)
Estonian: kümme (et)
French: dix (fr) m (1,2,3)
Galician: dez (gl)
Georgian: ათი (ka) (ati)
German: Zehn (de) f (2)
Gun: Awo
Alemannic German: zää
Gilbertese: tebwina
Gujarati: દસ (das)
Haitian Creole: dis
Hausa: goma
Hawaiian: umi
Hebrew:
Biblical Hebrew: עֲשָּׂרָה (he) m (ʿăśśārā), עֶשֶׂר (he) f (ʿeśer)

Modern Hebrew: עֶשְׂרֵה (he) f (ʾesré)
Hungarian: tíz (hu)
Icelandic: tíu (is)
Indonesian: sepuluh (id)
Irish: deich (ga)
Italian: dieci (it) m (1,2,3)
Japanese: 十 (ja) (jū), とお (ja) (tō)
Javanese: sepuluh (jv)
Kannada: ಹತ್ತು (kn) (hattu)
Kazakh: он (kk) (on)
Khmer: ដប់ (km) (dɑp)
Korean: 십 (ko) (sip)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: deh (ku)
Kyrgyz: он (ky) (on)
Ladino: דייס, dyes
Latin: decem (la)
Latvian: desmit (lv)
Lithuanian: dešimt (lt)
Luxembourgish: zéng (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦲᧇ (ṡiib)
Macedonian: десетка f (desetka)
Malagasy: folo (mg)
Malay: sepuluh (ms)
Malayalam: പത്ത് (ml) (pattŭ)
Maltese: għaxra (mt)
Maori: tekau (mi)
Marathi: दहा (dahā)
Mongolian: арав (mn) (arav), арван (arvan)
Nepali: दस (das)
Norwegian: ti (no)
Ogun: Awóh, Wó, Awo
Persian: ده (fa) (dah)
Polish: dziesiątka (pl) f (1,2), dycha (pl) f (informal) (3)
Portuguese: dez (pt) m (1,2)
Punjabi: ਦਸ (das)
Romanian: zece (ro) m (1), decar (ro) m (2)
Russian: деся́тка (ru) f (desjátka)
Samoan: sefulu
Scottish Gaelic: deich m
Serbo-Croatian: десет, deset
Shona: gumi
Sindhi: ڏَهَه (sd), ڏَهَيلو
Slovak: desiatka f (1,2), desaťkorunáčka f (3)
Slovene: desét (sl)
Somali: toban (so)
Sotho: leshome (st)
Spanish: diez (es)
Sundanese: sapuluh (su)
Swahili: kumi (sw)
Tagalog: sampu (tl), diyes
Tajik: даҳ (tg) (dah)
Tamil: பத்து (ta) (pattu)
Telugu: పది (te) (padi)
Thai: สิบ (th) (sìp)
Turkish: on (tr)
Ukrainian: десять (uk) (desjatʹ)
Uzbek: o‘n (uz)
Vietnamese: mười (vi) (1)
Welsh: deg (cy)
West Frisian: tsien (fy)
Xhosa: shumi
Yiddish: צען (yi) (tsen)
Yoruba: mẹwa
Zulu: ishumi

Anagrams

Net, net, ent, NET, -ent, .NET, ENT, Ent, ent-

Etymology

From English ten.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ten/

Numeral

ten (Bengali script তেন)

ten

Synonyms

chyigyk
dys / das

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

**Bislama cardinal numbers**
< 9	10	11 >
Cardinal : ten

Etymology

From English ten.

Numeral

ten

ten

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈten]
Rhymes: -en

Verb

ten

second-person singular imperative of tenir
second-person singular imperative of tindre

Usage notes

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.

Noun

ten

Hard mutation of den.
Mixed mutation of den.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn]
Audio: (file)

Pronoun

ten

the; this; that

Declension

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singular
	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

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Declension of ten (irregular)

Derived terms

Etymology

From Old Norse teinn (“stick”).

Noun

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

More information common gender, Singular ...

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ten	tenen	tene	tenene
genitive	tens	tenens	tenes	tenenes

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Declension of ten

Derived terms

håndten (“manual spindle”)

Etymology

A contraction of te + den. Compare German zum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛn/
Audio: (file)

Contraction

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

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

Related terms

ter

Anagrams

ent, net

Alternative forms

tem (Reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋ/

Verb

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:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ten”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Romanization

ten

Rōmaji transcription of てん
Rōmaji transcription of テン

Etymology

From Portuguese ter.

Verb

ten

to have
to possess

Etymology

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

ten

equal

References

N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ten”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn/
Rhymes: -ɛn
Syllabification: ten

Pronoun

ten

this (nearby)

Adverb

ten

there

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tɛn]

Determiner

ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)

this

Declension

More information Masculine singular, Feminine singular ...

	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual	Plural
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

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Declension of ten

Contraction

ten

Contraction of te den.

**Middle English numbers ^(edit)**
		100
^{[a], [b]} ← 1	← 9	10	11 →	20 →
		1^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenthe, tithe

Etymology 1

From Old English tīen.

Alternative forms

tene, tenne, tien

Pronunciation

(Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /teːn/
IPA^(key): /tɛn/
Rhymes: -ɛn

Numeral

ten

ten

Related terms

Descendants

English: ten
Scots: ten
Yola: dhen

References

“ten, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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

teen, tene

Verb

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

More information infinitive, present tense ...

infinitive	(to) ten, te
	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	te	—

plural²	ten, te	towen, towe
imperative plural	teth, te	—

participles	teynge, tende	towen, towe

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Conjugation of ten (strong class 2)

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).

Noun

ten

plural of tothe

Etymology

From Arabic طَعْن (ṭaʕn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛn/

Noun

ten m or f

scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
threat

References

Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 604

Alternative forms

tet

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɛn/

IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈtɛn/

Pronoun

ten

this (nearby)

Declension

More information singular, masculine ...

singular
	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

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Declension of ten (irregular)

Derived terms

mezitiem
mezitojú
proto
protož
přitom
přědtiem
tento
toten
tověz
točúš
toť
tuten
vetčas
vtom
zatiem

Descendants

Czech: ten

References

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

Alternative forms

tēne, tȳn, tīen
tȳn, tīen — West Saxon

Etymology

See tien

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teːn/

Numeral

tēn

(Mercian) ten

References

A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123

Alternative forms

tet

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɛn/

IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɛn/

Pronoun

ten

this (nearby)

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Polish: ten
Silesian: tyn

References

B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ten”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ̃n]
Rhymes: -ɛ̃n
Hyphenation: ten

Particle

ten

(used with the verb 'e) to be firm, fixed, or snug (literally, “to make a "ten" sound”)
Ten a'é.^[1] ― I am firm. (literally, “I make a "ten" sound.”)

Ten aîmo'e.^[2] ― I firm it up. (literally, “I make it make a "ten" sound.”)

References

[1]
Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 186
[2]
Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 186

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *teːn-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /teːŋ/
(Izalco) IPA^(key): /teŋ/

Noun

-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

-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

-tēn

on the edge, outside
Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput
They waited outside the cave

More information Person, Number ...

Person	Number
Person	singular	plural
first	nuten	tuten
second	muten	anmuten
third	iten	inten

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Declension of -ten

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ten. Cognate with Russian тот (tot), Lithuanian tas, Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), German der (“the”), English the.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn/

(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn/

Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛn
Syllabification: ten

Pronoun

ten

this (nearby)

Usage notes

¹The feminine accusative singular form tą is proscribed, but overall much more common.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	virile	nonvirile
nominative		ten	to	ta	ci	te
genitive		tego		tej	tych
dative		temu		tej	tym
accusative	animate	tego	to	tę/tą¹	tych	te
accusative	inanimate	ten	to	tę/tą¹	tych	te
instrumental		tym		tą	tymi
locative		tym		tej	tych
vocative		ten	to	ta	ci	te

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Declension of ten

Derived terms

pronouns

tamten

Related terms

Particle

ten

filler word
A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...

Trivia

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

[1]
Ida Kurcz (1990) “ten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 600

Etymology

Borrowed from French teint.

Noun

ten n (plural tenuri)

color of the face

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	ten	tenul	tenuri	tenurile
genitive-dative	ten	tenului	tenuri	tenurilor
vocative	tenule		tenurilor

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**Scots numbers ^(edit)**
← 1	← 9	10	11 →
		1
Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tent

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Numeral

ten

ten

References

“ten, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
“ten, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛn/

Pronoun

ten m

the; this; that

Declension

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singular
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter
nominative	ten		tá	to
genitive	toho		tej	toho
dative	tomu		tej	tomu
accusative	toho	ten	tú	to
locative	tom		tej	tom
instrumental	tým		tou	tým
plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter
nominative	tí	tie
genitive	tých
dative	tým
accusative	tých	tie
locative	tých
instrumental	tými

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Declension of ten (irregular)

Related terms

to

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈten/ [ˈt̪ẽn]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -en
Syllabification: ten

Verb

ten

second-person singular imperative of tener

Etymology

From English time.

Noun

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

Romanization

ten

Romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

Etymology

From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

ten c

a thin metal rod
(spinning) the shaft of a spindle (in any material)

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Declension of *ten*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ten	tens
singular	definite	tenen	tenens
plural	indefinite	tenar	tenars
plural	definite	tenarna	tenarnas

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Noun

ten

woman

Etymology

From English ten.

Numeral

ten

ten

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also tenpela.

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	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9
0—	—	wan	tu	tri	foa	faiv	sikis	seven	et	nain
1—	ten	eleven	twelv	tetin	fotin	fiftin	sikistin	seventin	etin	naintin
2—	twenti	tupela ten wan	tupela ten tu	tupela ten tri	tupela ten foa	tupela ten faiv	tupela ten sikis	tupela ten seven	tupela ten et	tupela ten nain
3—	teti	tripela ten wan	tripela ten tu	tripela ten tri	tripela ten foa	tripela ten faiv	tripela ten sikis	tripela ten seven	tripela ten et	tripela ten nain
4—	foti	fopela ten wan	fopela ten tu	fopela ten tri	fopela ten foa	fopela ten faiv	fopela ten sikis	fopela ten seven	fopela ten et	fopela ten nain
5—	fifti	faivpela ten wan	faivpela ten tu	faivpela ten tri	faivpela ten foa	faivpela ten faiv	faivpela ten sikis	faivpela ten seven	faivpela ten et	faivpela ten nain
6—	sikisti	sikispela ten wan	sikispela ten tu	sikispela ten tri	sikispela ten foa	sikispela ten faiv	sikispela ten sikis	sikispela ten seven	sikispela ten et	sikispela ten nain
7—	seventi	sevenpela ten wan	sevenpela ten tu	sevenpela ten tri	sevenpela ten foa	sevenpela ten faiv	sevenpela ten sikis	sevenpela ten seven	sevenpela ten et	sevenpela ten nain
8—	eti	etpela ten wan	etpela ten tu	etpela ten tri	etpela ten foa	etpela ten faiv	etpela ten sikis	etpela ten seven	etpela ten et	etpela ten nain
9—	nainti	nainpela ten wan	nainpela ten tu	nainpela ten tri	nainpela ten foa	nainpela ten faiv	nainpela ten sikis	nainpela ten seven	nainpela ten et	nainpela ten nain

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Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن (ten), from Persian (tan).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛn/

Noun

ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

skin
body
(dialectal) vulva of a cow

Declension

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Inflection

Nominative

ten

Definite accusative

teni

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Dative

Locative

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Genitive

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenim	tenlerim
2nd singular	tenin	tenlerin
3rd singular	teni	tenleri
1st plural	tenimiz	tenlerimiz
2nd plural	teniniz	tenleriniz
3rd plural	tenleri	tenleri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenimi	tenlerimi
2nd singular	tenini	tenlerini
3rd singular	tenini	tenlerini
1st plural	tenimizi	tenlerimizi
2nd plural	teninizi	tenlerinizi
3rd plural	tenlerini	tenlerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenime	tenlerime
2nd singular	tenine	tenlerine
3rd singular	tenine	tenlerine
1st plural	tenimize	tenlerimize
2nd plural	teninize	tenlerinize
3rd plural	tenlerine	tenlerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenimde	tenlerimde
2nd singular	teninde	tenlerinde
3rd singular	teninde	tenlerinde
1st plural	tenimizde	tenlerimizde
2nd plural	teninizde	tenlerinizde
3rd plural	tenlerinde	tenlerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenimden	tenlerimden
2nd singular	teninden	tenlerinden
3rd singular	teninden	tenlerinden
1st plural	tenimizden	tenlerimizden
2nd plural	teninizden	tenlerinizden
3rd plural	tenlerinden	tenlerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tenimin	tenlerimin
2nd singular	teninin	tenlerinin
3rd singular	teninin	tenlerinin
1st plural	tenimizin	tenlerimizin
2nd plural	teninizin	tenlerinizin
3rd plural	tenlerinin	tenlerinin

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References

“ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

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Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 186

[2] [2]
Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 186

[3] [1]
Ida Kurcz (1990) “ten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 600

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ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven

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