te

Clipping of English Telugu or Telugu తెలుగు (telugu).

te

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Telugu terms

Sense 1: Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become te and later ti.

Sense 2: The vowel of ti then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.

• Sense 1:
  • IPA^(key): /tiː/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: T, tea, tee, ti
• Sense 2:
  • IPA^(key): /teɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

te (plural tes)

1. (music, obsolete) In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.

   Synonym: si

2. (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

te (plural tes)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

• -et, ET, Et, et

From Dutch te.

• IPA^(key): /tə/

• Audio:

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te

1. indicating excess: too

te

1. modifying an infinitive verb: to
2. located at, in

te

1. to see

• 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.

• tse (Fante)

• Tone: L^[1]

te

1. to understand, perceive
2. to hear

• Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881), A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎^[3], Basel, page 476

• ke — Gheg dialects

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).

te (+ nominative)

1. at

   Unë jam te pijetorja.

   I'm at the bar.

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

   Jemi te unë.

   We're at my place.

• tek

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

te

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

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

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

From Latin tē, from tū.

te

1. you (second-person singular direct pronoun)
2. you (second-person singular indirect pronoun)

te

1. no

• IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

te inan

1. tea

te inan

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

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

te

1. wood, tree

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

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

te

1. you (singular)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Homophone: té
• Rhymes: -e

te f (plural tes)

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

From Latin tē (accusative of tū).

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

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

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

• -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!

• et
• tu

Originally from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

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

te m (plural tes)

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

• joc de te
• planta del te
• tetera

• “te” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “te”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “te”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

te

1. alternative spelling of teh

te

1. stone

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /tɛː/

• Audio (Revived Middle Cornish):

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From English tea, from Dutch thee.

te m (plural teow)

1. tea

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

• ty (Standard Written Form)

te

1. (Standard Cornish) alternative form of ty; you (informal second person singular pronoun), thou, thee

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ

te

1. (informal) Combined form of to +‎ je

• totě

From Latin tū.

te

1. (second-person singular pronoun) you, thou

• toi

• ju
• jal, jala
• nu
• vu
• jali, jale

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

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

• the (unofficial since 1872, but still common)

te c (singular definite teen, plural indefinite teer)

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

• → Faroese: te

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

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”).

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

1. (reflexive) behave

• bete

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

From Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ.

• IPA^(key): /tʰe/

te

1. water

• S. Hargus, Vowel quality and duration in Deg Xinag

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

• IPA^(key): /tə/

• Audio:

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te

1. too (indicating excess)

   Te veel is nooit goed! ― Too much is never good!

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

• Negerhollands: tu, tee
• Petjo: te

te

1. (modifying an infinitive verb) to

   Er is iets te eten ― there is something to eat

   Het is te doen ― it is doable, it can be done

2. located at, in, on

   Te Amsterdam ― in Amsterdam.

   En zo rijden we te paard ― and so we ride on horseback.

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.)

• Jersey Dutch: te
• Negerhollands: toe

te

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

   Te drommel

   by Jove.

From Proto-Finnic *tek.

te (short form of teie)

1. you (plural and polite form)

Declension of te
2nd person	singular		plural
	long	short	long	short
nominative	sina	sa	teie	te
genitive	sinu	su	teie	te
partitive	sind		teid
illative	sinusse	susse		teisse
inessive	sinus	sus		teis
elative	sinust	sust		teist
allative	sinule	sulle		teile
adessive	sinul	sul		teil
ablative	sinult	sult		teilt
translative	sinuks	–	teieks	teiks
terminative	sinuni	–	teieni	–
essive	sinuna	–	teiena	–
abessive	sinuta	–	teieta	–
comitative	sinuga	suga	teiega	–

te

1. paternal aunt
2. yam

te

1. under

te

1. to compact
2. to compress
3. to sting
4. to swell

From Old Galician-Portuguese te, from Latin tē.

te

1. Second person singular dative and accusative pronoun; you

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

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[4], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 265

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

te n (genitive singular tes, plural te)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

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

te n (genitive singular tes, uncountable)

1. tea

• et

• Te (when used politely)

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/, [ˈt̪e̞]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification^(key): te
• Hyphenation^(key): te

te

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

• 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.

• 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.

• tet (dialectal)
• työ (dialectal)

• Kven: tet

• “te”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• et

Inherited from Latin tū.

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

1. you (second-person singular nominative)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tə/

• Audio (France):

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• Rhymes: -ə

te m or f

1. (direct object) you

   Il te cite souvent. ― He often quotes you.

2. (indirect object) you

   Il te donne le livre. ― He gives you the book.

3. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

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

• “te”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• et

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪e]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: te

te m (plural tes)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, que, erre, ese, te, u, uve, xe, ceta / zeta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: te

te

1. inflection of ti:
   1. accusative
   2. reflexive

• IPA^(key): /te/

From French été (“been”).

te

1. Indicates the past or pluperfect tense.

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

te

1. tea

te

1. Niʻihau form of ke (“the”)

   Te kula.

   The school.

From the same Proto-Uralic root *tinä as e.g. Finnish sinä, Erzya тон (ton),^[1] Eastern Mari тый (tyj) and Komi-Zyrian тэ (te).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -tɛ

te

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

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)

• maga (formal)
• ön (official)

• ([informal, singular] you): te in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ([dialectal] stressing the plural addressee): te in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

te (Wiesemann spelling)

1. alternative spelling of de

Borrowed from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

te n (genitive singular tes, no plural)

1. tea

From t +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /te/, /tɛ/

te (plural te-i)

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

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

From Dutch tee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/, [ˈt̪ɛ]

tè (plural te-te)

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

• ti (Standard Malay)

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

• “te”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Irish té (“hot”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *teɸents, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-.

• IPA^(key): /tʲe(h)/^[2][3][4]

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

1. hot, warm
2. hot, spicy, piquant

• Alternative comparative form: teocha (Cois Fharraige)

• teas

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “te”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin tē, from tū.

• IPA^(key): /te/^*[1], /ˈte/^*[2]
  • Hyphenation: te, té
• (clitic) IPA^(key): /te/^°[1][3]
  • Hyphenation: te
• Rhymes: -e

te

1. (disjunctive, emphatic) you, thee
3. (subject, colloquial^[4] and regional^[4]) you, thou

   Synonym: tu

   • 2022, “Italiani a Londra [Italians in London]”, in Devastante, performed by Il Pagante ft. J-Ax:

     E sai pure te quanto amo il Big Ben, ma, non dirlo a nessuno, I miss you Milan!

     And even you know how much love Big Ben, but, don't tell anyone, I miss you Milan!

   • 2020, “16 marzo [March 16]”, in 1969 – Achille Idol Rebirth, performed by Achille Lauro:

     […] perché per te l'amore dura un anno, perché te sai solo cancellarlo […]

     […] because, for you, love [only] lasts one year, because you only know how to erase it […]

• io e tu (“I and you”) sounds awkward in Italian ("something e tu" as subject in general); speakers often avoid it either by moving tu to the first position as tu ed io (“you and I”), or by using this regional te subject pronoun in place of standard tu: io e te.

te

1. (clitic) alternative form of ti

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

• te² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• et

te

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

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

te

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

• éli

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

te

1. to

• Rezaei, Tahereh (2020), First notes on the syntax of Kholosi as a heritage language in the south of Iran‎^[6], Hormozgan Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts & Tourism Organization

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

• IPA^(key): /tɛ/

te (infinitive gũte)

1. to throw away

   tũteaga ― we (usually) throw away

• gũikia

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

From Latin intus.^[1]

te

1. (Badiot, Fascian, Gherdëina) in, inside, into

   L ie te cësa. ― It is in the house.

   Ei abinà la tleves tl (te l) castl. ― I found the keys in the closet.

   Ël ie te na bar. ― He is at a coffee shop.

   L lere ie te perjon. ― The thief is in prison.

2. in (pertaining to)

   te chësc cajo ― in this case

3. in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)

   L film scumëncia te 20 menuc. ― The film starts in 20 minutes.

   tl (te l) Medieve ― during the middle ages

   ti (te i) ani '60 ― in the 60s

4. into, to (going inside (of))

   Ël va te cësa. ― He goes into the house.

   Nëus jon te la Svizra. ― We are going to Switzerland.

• en (Fascian)
• n (Gherdëina)

• (te + l) tl
• (te + la) tla
• (te + i) ti
• (te + les) les

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː]

From a merger of:

• Proto-Italic *tē, accusative of *tū (“you (singular)”); from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you (singular)”)
• Proto-Italic *ted, from Proto-Indo-European *t(w)éd, the corresponding ablative singular.^[1]

tē

1. accusative/ablative singular of tū

• 𐌕𐌄𐌃 (tēd) (Old Latin)
• tētē (emphatic, rare)

• tēmet

Derived from Etruscan. Etruscan names of stops were the stop followed by /eː/.^[2]

tē f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter T/t.^[3]

• (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

• “te (pronoun)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “te (letter)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “te”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[7], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    
  • (ambiguous) everything depends on you: in te omnia sunt
    
  • (ambiguous) the decision of the question rests with you: penes te arbitrium huius rei est
    
  • (ambiguous) I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem)
    
  • (ambiguous) convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    
  • (ambiguous) the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur
    
  • (ambiguous) be brave: fortem te praebe
    
  • (ambiguous) your health: bene tibi or te!
    
  • (ambiguous) a word with you: paucis te volo
    
  • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    
  • (ambiguous) I bid you good-bye, take my leave: te valere iubeo
    
  • (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)
    

te

1. here

te

1. now..., now...

   te šur, te tur ― now here, now there

Borrowed from Bangi te.

te

1. not

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 (tʻē, “that”).

• IPA^(key): /tʲɛ/

tè

1. (with third person) may, let (used to indicate the optative mood)

   Ši̇̀ nakti̇̀s tè niẽkad nesibai̇̃gia. - May this night never end.

tè

1. (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.

• še

• see te-
• bet
• net

• IPA^(key): [tɛ]

te

1. nominative/accusative plural of ten

Borrowed from Italian tè.

• IPA^(key): /tɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

te m (plural tejiet)

1. tea

te

1. romanization of ᡨᡝ

te (te⁵ / te⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄜ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脦

te

1. nonstandard spelling of tē
2. nonstandard spelling of tè
3. nonstandard spelling of tê̄

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /teː/

te

1. contraction of ta +‎ eh, literally “he/it is”

   Te myr shen.

   It is so.

An orthographic distinction is made in Classical Manx texts between t'eh 'he is' and te 'it is'.

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

Compare Hawaiian ka (“the”). False cognate of English the, but might have been reinforced by it.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈtɛ]

te sg (plural ngā)

1. 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.

te sg (plural ngā)

1. 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.

2. Mr, mister, sir (capitalised)

   Kei Te Wharehuia, tēnei te mihi atu mō tō āwhina mai.

   Wharehuia sir, thank you most sincerely for your help.

3. Used in front of another verb following a stative.

   Kua oti i a au tāku pukapuka te tuhi.

   I have finished writing my book.

4. Used in front of another verb following taea.

   Ka taea e ia tēnei waiata te whakamāori.

   She will be able to interpret this song.

5. Used before the names for the days of the week.

   Ā te Rātapu mātou haere ai ki Poihākena.

   We go to Sydney on Saturday.

6. Sometimes used before numbers with a following noun.

   I tāwāhi a Pita mō te rima tau.

   Peter was overseas for five years.

7. 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.

• he (for "a/an" and "some")

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

te

1. mouth
2. door

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

• IPA^(key): /tə/

te

1. at, in (a place)
2. to, towards
3. at, during (a time)
4. for (the purpose of)
5. in accordance with
6. with, from (a means, such as language)
7. (with gerund) to, for

• toe (eastern)

• Dutch: te
• Limburgish: te, tö

te

1. very, particularly
2. too, to an excessive degree

• toe (eastern)

• Dutch: te

• “te (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “te (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “te (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “te (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

te

1. alternative form of þe (“thee”)

• t' (before a vowel)

From Old French te.

te

1. you, second-person singular object pronoun
2. to you, second-person singular indirect object pronoun

• (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)

• French: te

te

1. used with iah to negate a sentence

From Latin tē.

• IPA^(key): /te/
• Rhymes: -e

te

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

• IPA^(key): /teː/
• Rhymes: -eː

From Dutch thee.

te m (definite singular teen)

1. tea

From Old Norse tjá.

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

1. (reflexive) to behave

• “te” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /teː/
• Rhymes: -eː

From Dutch thee.

te m (definite singular teen)

1. tea

From Old Norse tjá.

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

1. (reflexive) to behave

From Old Norse til.

te

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Østlandet) alternative form of til

• “te” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Audio (Béarn):

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te f (plural tes)

1. tee (the letter t, T)

From Proto-Germanic *ta (“to”).

• IPA^(key): /te/
• Rhymes: -e

te

1. to
   • Heom te cwæþ (He said to him)

     Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 26, 21.

   • Ālēfed te habbanne (Allowed to have)

     Swt. 445, 30: 50.

• te-

From Latin tē.

te

1. you (second-person singular direct object pronoun)
2. to you (second-person singular indirect object pronoun)
3. yourself (second-person singular direct object reflexive pronoun)
4. to yourself (second-person singular indirect object reflexive pronoun)

te

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

te

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

From Portuguese até.

te

1. until, till, up to, up until

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

té

1. just, only, however

-té

1. naked

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: te
• Homophone: tę

te m

1. nonvirile nominative/accusative plural of ten

te f

1. nominative/accusative plural of ta

te n

1. nominative/accusative plural of to

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

• Audio (Brazil (São Paulo)):

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• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: te

te

1. (object pronoun) you (singular)

   Vem comigo; levar-te-ei a casa. (formal)
   Vem comigo, vou te levar pra casa. (informal)

   Come with me; I will take you home.

3. particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.

   Vais-te muito cedo.

   You are leaving too soon.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:te.

te (pl te mau)

1. the (the definite article)

te

1. if

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

• IPA^(key): /te/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e

te (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

   Știi cât de mult te iubește?'

   Do you know how much he loves you?

2. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

• te rog

• tine
• tu

• mă
• se
• ne
• vă

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

te m

1. (Sursilvan) tea

• IPA^(key): /tɛ˩/

te

1. to eat
2. to bite

te ? (Cyrillic spelling те)

1. of you (clitic genitive singular of tȋ (“you”))
2. you (clitic accusative singular of tȋ (“you”))
3. feminine nominative plural of taj: those (= one)

   Tko su te žene? ― Who are those women?

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

te (Cyrillic spelling те)

1. and (following a cause; lit. and thereby, and thus)

   Poskliznuo sam se te pao.

   I slipped and fell.

2. 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.

3. (Croatia) now (chiefly used in stock phrases)

   Problemi gdje god pogledaš! Te tu, te tamo!

   Problems, wherever you look! Now here, now there!

• tè, té, the (misspelling)

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

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

te m

1. tea

• IPA^(key): /te/ [t̪e]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: te
• Homophone: té

te f (plural tes)

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

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

te

1. dative of tú: to you, for you

   Te voy a hacer tus calzones...."La Cucaracha"

   I’m going to make your britches

2. accusative of tú: you
3. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

• “te”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /te/, [tɪ̞], [te̝]

From English then.

te

1. when
   • 1984, “Nioni”, in Telefôn' mi koe mi koenoe, performed by The Exmo Stars and Boogie:

     Te yu no man fu tyari akata / yu no mu trobi matuku

     If you aren't able to carry a headpad / you shouldn't bother with a basket

From English till or Dutch te.

te

1. until

Borrowed from Dutch thee.

te

1. tea

• → Aukan: te
• → Saramaccan: té

te

1. romanization of 𒋼

• the, thé

• IPA^(key): /teː/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: t, T
• Rhymes: -eː

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

te n

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

   dricka en kopp te

   drink a cup of tea

   brygga te

   brew tea

   Låt teet dra i fyra minuter

   Let the tea steep for four minutes

   tepåse

   teabag

• → Finnish: tee

• kaffe (“coffee”)

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.

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

1. (reflexive) to appear (a certain way)

   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)

• bete
• förete

Eye dialect spelling of till, for some dialects.

te

1. synonym of till

Rarely in written form unless imitating speech.

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

• -et

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

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

te (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ) (historical)

1. the name of the Latin script letter T/t, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) ti, (in the Abakada alphabet) ta

te (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ) (colloquial)

1. clipping of ate, term of address for an elder sister, female senior, or any female older than the speaker; sis

   Huwag ka maingay, te! Nag-aaral ako!

   Don't be noisy, sis! I'm studying!

   Te, ano ba?

   Sis, what is it now?

• Only used as a term of address.

• teh

• “te”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

te (plural sometimes te mau)

1. the (singular) (definite article)
2. the (plural) (definite article)
3. (conversationally) a, an (indefinite article)

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[8] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “te” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

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

• IPA^(key): [te]
• Hyphenation: te

te

1. Singular definite article; the

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[9], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 379

• IPA^(key): /te/

te

1. will (future tense particle)

te

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

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

te

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ت

te

1. alternative form of ta

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

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

te

1. the (definite article)

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

te

1. road, way

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

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “дорога, трасса”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[10], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

te

1. only, solely, merely
2. but

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

• IPA^(key): /teː/
• Rhymes: -eː

te m (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) tea (drink made with infusion of Camellia sinensis or other leaves)
2. tea (main evening meal)

   Synonyms: swper, hwyrbryd, cywnos, cinio

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “te”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /t̪e/

te

1. tea

• IPA^(key): /t̪e/

te

1. so; so that

   Synonym: supaya

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[11], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Hmong *tæwᶜ (“frost”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /te˧/

te (classifier: cov)

1. frost

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[12], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 312.

te

1. foot