ten

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ten"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English ten.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛn]

Noun

ten

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

Etymology 2

Symbol

ten

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tama (Colombia).

English

English numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
1
    Cardinal: ten
    Ordinal: tenth
    Abbreviated ordinal: 10th
    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
    Number of musicians: decet
    Number of years: decade, decennium

Etymology

PIE word
*déḱm̥

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

Numeral

ten

  1. 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.
    • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University[2], page 1:
      A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.

Translations

Noun

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

  1. 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.
    • (Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University[3], page 1:
      Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.
  2. (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
    • 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN[4]:
      No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
  3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  4. (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?
  5. (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[5]:
      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[6]:
      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.
  6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
  7. (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

Derived terms

Translations

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See also


Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three, trey four, cater five, cinque six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

Anagrams

Ahtna

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tən (ice, frost). Cognate with Navajo tin.

Noun

ten

  1. ice

References

  • Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English ten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ten/

Numeral

ten (Bengali script তেন)

  1. ten

Synonyms

References

Bislama

Bislama cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : ten

Etymology

From English ten.

Numeral

ten

  1. ten

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

ten

  1. second-person singular imperative of tenir
  2. second-person singular imperative of tindre

Usage notes

Generally, the imperative form ten is a contextual form of used when clitic pronouns (e.g., te) are attached to the end of the verb.

Cornish

Noun

ten

  1. hard mutation of den
  2. mixed mutation of den

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛn]
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

ten

  1. the, this, that

Declension

Declension of ten (irregular)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative ten ta to
genitive toho toho
dative tomu tomu
accusative toho ten tu to
locative tom tom
instrumental tím tou tím
plural
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative ti ty ta
genitive těch
dative těm
accusative ty ta
locative těch
instrumental těmi, těma

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse teinn (stick).

Noun

ten

  1. a spindle; a rod or stick used together with a distaff to spin yarn
  2. in a spinning wheel or similar machine: the reel on which the finished yarn is spooled

Declension

Declension of ten
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ten tenen tene tenene
genitive tens tenens tenes tenenes

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

A contraction of te + den. Compare German zum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛn/
  • Audio:(file)

Contraction

ten

  1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)
    ten goede of ten kwadefor better or for worse
    ten delepartly
    ten tijde vanduring 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

Anagrams

Galician

Alternative forms

  • tem (Reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɛŋ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋ
  • Hyphenation: ten

Verb

ten

  1. has; third-person singular present indicative of ter
    A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.
    Beer has a long history in Galicia.
  2. inflection of ter:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

Japanese

Romanization

ten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of テン

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese ter.

Verb

ten

  1. to have
  2. to possess

Karaim

Etymology

From Ultimately from Middle Chinese (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 (teŋ, equal).

Adjective

ten

  1. equal

References

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

Kashubian

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

    Pronunciation

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

    Pronoun

    ten

    1. this (nearby)

    Further reading

    • Stefan Ramułt (1893), “ten”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 213
    • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ten”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[7]
    • ten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

    Lithuanian

    Etymology

    From Proto-Baltic *ten "thither", formed from *tas by analogy with Proto-Balto-Slavic *kun "whither", from Proto-Indo-European *kú, with an accusative suffix -m.[1]

    Adverb

    ten

    1. there

    References

    Lower Sorbian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [tɛn]

    Determiner

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

    1. this

    Declension

    Lower Tanana

    Etymology 1

    From Proto-Athabaskan *tən (ice), whence also tenh. Cognate with Ahtna ten.

    Root

    ten

    1. to freeze
    Stem set
    Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
    Conclusive ten ten ten ten
    Momentaneous tiyh tenh tiɬ tiɬ
    Neuter ten tin'
    Derived terms

    References

    • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 347-348

    Etymology 2

    From Proto-Athabaskan *təŋ.

    Root

    ten

    1. to be asleep
    Stem set
    Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
    Neuter tenh tin' tin' tiɬ
    Derived terms

    References

    • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 348

    Etymology 3

    From Proto-Athabaskan *təm. Cognate with Ahtna łteni, nełteni (thunder, grasshopper).

    Root

    ten

    1. to thunder
    Stem set
    Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
    Consecutive tenh tenh tenh tenh
    Momentaneous tiyh tenh tiɬ tiɬ
    Derived terms

    References

    • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 348-349

    Middle Dutch

    Contraction

    ten

    1. contraction of te +‎ den

    Middle English

    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

    Pronunciation

    Numeral

    ten

    1. ten
    Descendants
    • English: ten
    • Scots: ten
    • Yola: dhen
    References

    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

      Verb

      ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)

      1. (transitive) To draw; lead.
      2. (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.
      Conjugation
      Conjugation of ten (strong class 2)
      infinitive (to) ten, te
      present tense past tense
      1st-person singular te tegh
      2nd-person singular test towe1
      3rd-person singular teth tegh
      subjunctive singular te towe2
      imperative singular
      plural3 ten, te towen, towe
      imperative plural teth, te
      participles tynge, tende towen, towe

      1 Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular or teghest.
      2 Later replaced by the indicative.
      3 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

      Derived terms

      Etymology 3

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

      Noun

      ten

      1. plural of toth

      Northern Kurdish

      Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /tɛn/

      Noun

      ten m or f

      1. scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
      2. threat

      References

      • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[8], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 604

      Old Czech

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈtɛn/
      • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈtɛn/

      Pronoun

      ten

      1. this (nearby)

      Declension

      Declension of ten (hard pronominal)
      singular
      masculine feminine neuter
      nominative ten ta to
      genitive toho toho
      dative tomu téj, tej tomu
      accusative toho, ten tu to
      locative tom téj, tej tom
      instrumental tiem tiem
      dual
      masculine feminine neuter
      nominative ta
      genitive
      dative těma
      accusative ta
      locative
      instrumental těma
      plural
      masculine feminine neuter
      nominative ti ty ta
      genitive těch
      dative těm
      accusative ty ta
      locative těch
      instrumental těmi

      Coordinate terms

      Type interrogative relative demonstrative indefinite
      kto/
      qualitative
      který
      selective
      jen sen
      proximal
      ten onen
      distal
      jiný
      alternative
      veš
      every
      Time k(eh)dy -kterdy jedy t(eh)dy on(eh)dy jindy v(e)šdy
      Place in kde -kterde sde tu onde jinde vešde
      to kam(o) jam(o) sěm(o) tam(o) onam(o) jinam(o) všam(o)
      through kudy, kady jady sudy tudy, tady onudy, onady jinudy, jinady všudy, všady
      with prepositions -kud, -kad -ňud, -ňad -sud, -sad -tud, -tad -onud, -onad -jinud, -jinad -všud, -všad
      Manner Way kak(o) kterak(o) jak(o) sic(e) tak(o) onak(o) jinak(o) však(o)
      Amount kolik(o) jelik(o) tolik(o) všelik(o)
      Indefinite prefixes: ně-, leda-, neda-, ni-
      Indefinite suffixes: -koli, -si

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      See also

      References

      Old English

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      See tīen.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /teːn/

      Numeral

      tēn

      1. (Mercian) ten

      References

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

      Old Polish

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

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

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /tɛn/
        • IPA(key): (15th CE) /tɛn/

        Pronoun

        ten

        1. this (nearby)

        Declension

        This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

        Descendants

        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

        Old Tupi

        Etymology

        Onomatopoeic.

        Pronunciation

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

        Particle

        ten

        1. (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

        Pipil

        Etymology

        From Proto-Nahuan *teen-tlɨ, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (lips).

        Pronunciation

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

        Noun

        -tēn (plural -tejtēn)

        1. mouth
          Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka
          You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby
        2. edge, brim
          Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul
          Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug
        3. opening
          Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten
          They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)

        Derived terms

        • tēnkal (door”, “doorway)
        • -tēnnāmiki (to kiss)
        • -tēnpan (edge)
        • tēnpēlua (to open one's mouth)
        • -tēnshīpal (lip)
        • tēntzakka (lid” or “door)
        • tēntzin (window)
        • -tēntzun (moustache” or “beard)

        Noun

        -tēn

        1. on the edge, outside
          Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput
          They waited outside the cave
        Declension of -ten
        singular plural
        first person nuten tuten
        second person muten anmuten
        third person iten inten

        Polish

        Etymology

          Inherited from Old Polish ten.

          Pronunciation

           
          • IPA(key): /ˈtɛn/
          • Audio 1:(file)
          • Audio 2:(file)
          • Rhymes: -ɛn
          • Syllabification: ten

          Pronoun

          ten

          1. this (nearby)

          Usage notes

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

          Declension

          Derived terms

          pronouns

          Particle

          ten

          1. 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]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 600

          Further reading

          Romanian

          Etymology

          Borrowed from French teint.

          Noun

          ten n (plural tenuri)

          1. color of the face

          Declension

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

          Scots

          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

          1. ten

          References

          Slovak

          Etymology

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

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ten/, [ten]
          • Rhymes: -en

          Pronoun

          ten m

          1. the; this; that

          Declension

          Declension of ten (irregular)
          singular
          masculine feminine neuter
          animate inanimate
          nominative ten to
          genitive toho tej toho
          dative tomu tej tomu
          accusative toho ten to
          locative tom tej tom
          instrumental tým tou tým
          plural
          masculine feminine/neuter
          animate inanimate
          nominative tie
          genitive tých
          dative tým
          accusative tých tie
          locative tých
          instrumental tými

          Further reading

          • ten”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

          Spanish

          Pronunciation

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

          Verb

          ten

          1. second-person singular imperative of tener

          Sranan Tongo

          Etymology

          From English time.

          Noun

          ten

          1. time
            • 1975, Mighty Botai, “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

          Sumerian

          Romanization

          ten

          1. romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

          Swedish

          Etymology

          From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (sprout, twig, branch), from Proto-Germanic *tainaz

          Pronunciation

          • Audio:(file)

          Noun

          ten c

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

          Declension

          Derived terms

          See also

          References

          Tiang

          Noun

          ten

          1. woman

          Further reading

          • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

          Tok Pisin

          Tok Pisin numbers (edit)
          100
           ←  1  ←  9 10 11  →  20  → 
          1
              Cardinal: ten

          Etymology

          From English ten.

          Numeral

          ten

          1. ten

          Usage notes

          Used when counting; see also tenpela.

          Coordinate terms

          Turkish

          Etymology

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

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /tɛn/

          Noun

          ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

          1. skin
          2. body
          3. (dialectal) vulva of a cow

          Declension

          Declension of ten
          singular plural
          nominative ten tenler
          definite accusative teni tenleri
          dative tene tenlere
          locative tende tenlerde
          ablative tenden tenlerden
          genitive tenin tenlerin
          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

          References

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