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Translingual

Te

  1. symbol for the element tellurium.

English

Noun

te

  1. (Music) The seventh note of a major scale.
  2. (Music) The note B in the fixed doh system.

Variant spelling

  • ti in North America

Pronunciation

/ti:/

Etymology

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter.


Basque

Noun

te

  1. tea.

Dutch

/t@/

  1. preposition, located at, in
  2. preposition, (modifying an infinitive verb), to
  3. adverb, indicating excess: too
  4. definite article, archaic, in idiom; a form of de

Examples

  1. Te Amsterdam: in Amsterdam.
  2. Er is iets te eten: there is something to eat.
  3. Te veel is nooit goed: too much is never good; te gek!: far out!
  4. Te drommel: by Jove.

Estonian

Personal pronoun

te (short form of teie )

  1. you (plural and polite form).

Finnish

Personal pronoun

te (stem tei-)

  1. you (plural, polite form).

Variant forms

  • (dialectal) tet
  • (dialectal) työ

Declension

The stem is invariant and the suffixes regular except in the genitive where the form is teidän.

See also


French

/tə/

Pronoun

te

  1. you (used as an indirect object)

Examples

  1. Il te donne le livre.: He gives you the book.

Hungarian

Pronoun

(plural ti)

  1. you (singular)

Italian

Pronoun

te

  1. (emphasised objective of tu) you

See also


Maori

Article

  1. the, the definite article.

Norwegian

Noun

te c

  1. tea.

Spanish

Pronoun

te

  1. you (familar objective case form)
    Te voy hacer tus calzones.... - I'm going to make you shoes (from the song La Cucaracha)

Swedish

Noun

te n (definite singular teet, indefinite plural teer, definite plural teerna)

  1. tea.



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