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t U+0074, t
LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← s
 		Basic Latin u →
ᵗ U+1D57, ᵗ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T
← ᵖ
 		Phonetic Extensions ᵘ →
ｔ U+FF54, ｔ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← ｓ
 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｕ →

Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(file)

Symbol

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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t

  1. (IPA) a voiceless alveolar/dental plosive.
  2. (superscript ⟨ᵗ⟩, IPA) -onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), -release, -coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic .
  3. (mathematics, physics) time
  4. tonne
  5. (manufacturing) thickness
    0.7 mmt

Usage notes

  • As a symbol meaning "time", t is italicised in print; for example, "the position at time t is x".

See also

  • (IPA): d (“voiced alveolar plosive”)
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Gallery

  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur
    Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur
  • Uppercase and lowercase T in sans-serif and serif font
    Uppercase and lowercase T in sans-serif and serif font

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T, plural ts or t's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
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Number

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

t

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of at
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of to and homophone too.

Noun

t (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.
  3. (UK) Alternative letter-case form of T, tonne.
  4. (historical) Abbreviation of tomin.
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Afar

Letter

t

  1. The third letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

t lower case (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Chipewyan

Pronunciation

  1. IPA(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Danish

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

Noun

t

  1. ton

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

  • Previous letter: s
  • Next letter: u

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

t
X2		 X4
Z2

 m

  1. bread

Inflection

Declension of t (masculine)
singular t
dual twj
plural tw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of t  
X2
t
t
X2
t
X2		 X4
Z2
X2X4
Z2
t X2
X4
t t t t t t
abbreviation abbreviation in names
of types of ritual loaves

Derived terms

References

  • “tʾ (lemma ID 168810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 209.4–211.4
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 292

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and t for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

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Noun

t

  1. Abbreviation of tavu.

French

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
      His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

Contraction

t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Informal spelling of t’es
    t ou? ― wya?
    t pas chez toi? ― ur not home?
    t vrmt nul! ― u rly suck!

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Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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German

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

Related terms

Gothic

Romanization

t

  1. Romanization of 𐍄

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative t t-k
accusative t-t t-ket
dative t-nek t-knek
instrumental t-vel t-kkel
causal-final t-ért t-kért
translative t-vé t-kké
terminative t-ig t-kig
essive-formal t-ként t-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive t-ben t-kben
superessive t-n t-ken
adessive t-nél t-knél
illative t-be t-kbe
sublative t-re t-kre
allative t-hez t-khez
elative t-ből t-kből
delative t-ről t-kről
ablative t-től t-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		t-é t-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		t-éi t-kéi
Possessive forms of t
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. t-m t-im
2nd person sing. t-d t-id
3rd person sing. t-je t-i
1st person plural t-nk t-ink
2nd person plural t-tek t-itek
3rd person plural t-jük t-ik

See also

Further reading

  • t in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ido

Pronunciation

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /t/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /te/

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Letter

t f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case T)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Latin

Letter

t

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

References

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

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Letter

T

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian

Pronunciation

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t/
  • IPA(key): /d/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
  • Audio(file)

Letter

t

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
  • Audio(file)

Letter

t m (upper case T, definite singular t-en, indefinite plural t-ar, definite plural t-ane)

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.
  2. Something in the shape of a T

Etymology 2

Noun

t

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Abbreviation of tonn.
  3. (music) Abbreviation of tempo.
  4. (music) Abbreviation of tenor.
  5. (historical) Initialism of tilfredsstillande (academic grade).
  6. Abbreviation of tara.
  7. (music) Abbreviation of tonika (“tonic”).

Preposition

t

  1. (text messaging, informal) Abbreviation of til (“to”).

References

Nupe

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

Letter

t (upper case T, lower case)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. (International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

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Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ət/
  • Hyphenation: t

Article

t

  1. Unstressed form of dät

References

  • Pyt Kramer (1996) Kute Seelter Sproakleere‎, Mildam, page 10

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by u. Its traditional name is teine (“gorse”).

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • T (uppercase)

Pronunciation

Letter

t (Cyrillic spelling т)

  1. The 26th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by š and followed by u.

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

Noun

t m or f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of tiempo, time
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, tonelada: ton, Spanish ton, metric ton
  3. (historical) Abbreviation of tomín: tomin, former Spanish unit of currency
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Preposition

t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of te.
    t kiero wapo
    luv u sxy

Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Swedish alphabet

Declension

Declension of t 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative t t:et t:n t:na
Genitive ts t:ets t:ns t:nas

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish t. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English t.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish t.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜆ (ta).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ti/,

  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈte/,

  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ta/,

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called ti and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The twenty-third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called te and written in the Latin script.

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ta and written in the Latin script.

Further reading

  • “t”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen

Pronunciation

Letter

t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Yoruba

Pronunciation

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called tí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Wikious
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