different between tens vs teys

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

Noun

teys

1. plural of tey

Anagrams

• Tyes, etys, stey, stye, tyes, yest, yet's, yets