different between tens vs ten

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

tens

1. plural of ten

tens pl (plural only)

1. (poker slang) A pair of tens.
2. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• ENTs, NEST, Sten, ents, nest, nets, sent, sent., snet

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin t?nsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.

Adjective

tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)

1. tense, taut

Etymology 2

Verb

tens

1. second-person singular present indicative form of tenir

Further reading

• “tens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tens” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

tens m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)

1. Alternative form of tans

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ns/

Noun

tens (plural tenses or tens)

1. (grammar) tense

Descendants

• English: tense

References

• “tens(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?j?s/, /?t?j??/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t??j??/

Verb

tens

1. Second-person singular (tu) present indicative of ter

Swedish

Noun

tens

1. indefinite genitive singular of ten

Anagrams

• Sten, sent, sten

English

Etymology

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English t?en, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *dé?m?.

Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”), Dutch tien (“ten”), German zehn (“ten”), Norwegian ti (“ten”), Swedish tio (“ten”).

Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dhjetë, Old Armenian ???? (tasn), Lithuanian dešimt, Old Church Slavonic ?????? (des?t?), Old Breton dec, Old Irish deich, Ancient Greek ???? (déka), Sanskrit ?? (dásá), Old Persian *???????? (*d-? /da?a/), Latin decem, Tocharian A ?äk.

See also teen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: t?n IPA^(key): /t?n/, [t??n]
• IPA^(key): /t?n/ (pin–pen merger)
• Rhymes: -?n, Rhymes: -?n (pin–pen merger)
• Homophone: tin (with pin-pen merger)

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.

Related terms

• tenth

Translations

See ten/translations § Numeral.

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.

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

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. See also tenner.

   Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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 1? 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.

Synonyms

• Roman numerals: X
• (currency): tenner

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (prefix): deca-, deka-
• (adjective): decadal, decenary
• (a set of 10 items): decimate, decimal; decaplet, decuplet (of babies, musical notes, or baryons)
• (containing 10 items): decenary
• (related to base-10 numeration): See decimal
• (period of 10 months): decimestrial
• (period of 10 years): See decade and decennium
• (related to a 10-year period): See decadal and decennial
• (10-year anniversary): See decennial
• (rule by 10 people): See decemvirate
• (commander of 10 soldiers): See decener
• (chief of 10 men in early English law): See tithingman
• (payment or collection of a 10% tax): See tithe

Anagrams

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

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English ten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ten/

Numeral

ten (Bengali script ???)

1. 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

Etymology

From English ten.

Numeral

ten

1. ten

Cornish

Noun

ten

1. Hard mutation of den.
2. Mixed mutation of den.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?, from Proto-Indo-European *só

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?n]

Pronoun

ten m (demonstrative nominative singular masculine animate)

1. the; this; that

Declension

Derived terms

• tamten
• tenhle
• tentam
• tento
• tentýž
• kdo d?ív p?ijde, ten d?ív mele

Further reading

• ten in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ten in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

A contraction of te + den.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n/

Contraction

ten

1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)

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

• ten opzichte van

Related terms

• ter

Anagrams

• ent, net

Galician

Verb

ten

1. third-person singular present indicative of ter
2. second-person singular imperative of ter

Japanese

Romanization

• Romanization of ?

ten

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese ter.

Verb

ten

1. to have
2. to possess

Lithuanian

Adverb

ten

1. there

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?n]

Determiner

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

1. this

Declension

Middle Dutch

Contraction

ten

1. Contraction of te den.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?en

Alternative forms

• tene, tenne, tien

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /te?n/
• IPA^(key): /t?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Numeral

ten

1. ten

Related terms

• -tene
• -ty

Descendants

• English: ten
• Scots: ten
• Yola: dhen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of t?nn (“tooth”).

Noun

ten

1. plural of tothe

Old English

Alternative forms

• t?ne, t?n, t?en

Etymology

See tien

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?n/

Numeral

t?n

1. (Mercian) ten

References

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

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *te?n-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl t?ntli (“lips”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /te??/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /te?/

Noun

-t?n (plural -tejt?n)

1. mouth

2. edge, brim

3. opening

Derived terms

Relational

-t?n

1. on the edge, outside

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?, from Proto-Indo-European *só

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n/

Pronoun

ten m

1. this (nearby)

Declension

Note: In the accusative singular, the form tego is used for masculine personal and animate nouns, while ten is used for masculine inanimate nouns. The feminine accusative form t? is only acceptable in colloquial speech, not in formal writing.

Further reading

• ten in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French teint.

Noun

ten n (plural tenuri)

1. color of the face

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ten

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n/

Numeral

ten

1. ten

References

• Andy Eagle, ed., (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?, from Proto-Indo-European *só

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n/

Pronoun

ten m

1. (demonstrative) this (nearby)

Related terms

• to

Further reading

• ten in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ten/, [?t??n]
• Rhymes: -en

Verb

ten

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tener.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English time.

Noun

ten

1. time

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

ten c

1. a rod, a stick (of metal or wood)

Declension

See also

• tenn

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

Etymology

From English ten.

Numeral

ten

1. ten

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also tenpela.

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ??? (tan).

Noun

ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

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

Declension

References

• “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk a?z?ndan derleme sözlü?ü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tin?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???n/, /t????/

  Rhymes: -???n

Noun

ten n

1. tin (chemical element)

   jo? bå?i te???

   made out of tin