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English
Noun
tes
- plural of te
Anagrams
- Tse, StE, -est, set, TSE, est, Set, Est., seṭ, ETS, STE, est., tse, ETs, Ste, EST, Ste., SET, Est
Brokskat
Pronoun
tes
- they
Catalan
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tens.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tes (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural teses)
- tight, taut (not loose)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
tes
- plural of te (“tea”)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
tes
- plural of te (“the letter T”)
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Verb
tes
- (Balearic, Alghero) first-person singular present indicative of tesar
Etymology 5
Inherited from Vulgar Latin tās, reduced form of Latin tuās.
Pronunciation
Determiner
tes
- (obsolete) feminine plural of ton
Further reading
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
tes m inan
- beam, pale, batten
- Synonyms: tesa, lať, trám
- (literary) Alternative form of útes
Declension
Declension of tes (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “tes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “tes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “tes”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
Noun
tes c
- indefinite genitive singular of te
Franco-Provençal
Determiner
tes
- feminine plural of ton
- Alternative form of tos, masculine plural of ton
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French tes, from Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.
Pronunciation
Determiner
tes pl (masculine ton, feminine ta)
- your (when referring to a plural noun)
J’aime bien tes voisins.- I like your neighbors.
French possessive determiners
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man, tan, san. These are extremely rare.
Further reading
Anagrams
Galician
Pronunciation
Noun
tes m pl
- plural of te
Verb
tes
- second-person singular present indicative of ter
Pero xa tes a miña palabra que é coma un documento.- But you already have my word which is like a document.
References
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch test, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tes (plural tes-tes, first-person possessive tesku, second-person possessive tesmu, third-person possessive tesnya)
- test.
- Synonyms: pengetesan, pengujian, ujian
Affixed terms
Further reading
Middle Dutch
Contraction
tes
- Contraction of te des.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.
Pronoun
tes m pl or f pl
- your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
Descendants
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
tes f pl
- plural of te
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
tes
- indefinite genitive singular of te
Etymology 2
From Latin thesis and Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement”), used in Swedish since 1664.
Noun
tes c
- a thesis, a statement, a hypothesis, a doctrine, an idea, a thought, a theory
- De 95 teserna om avlatens innebörd
- The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
- tes och antites
- thesis and antithesis
Declension
References
Anagrams
Ternate
Etymology
Borrowed from English test some time during the British occupation of Ternate (1810-1817).
Pronunciation
Noun
tes
- a test
- an examination (for school, etc.)
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh tes, from Proto-Brythonic *tes, from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Irish teas.
Pronunciation
Noun
tes m (plural tesoedd)
- heat
- Synonym: gwres
- a period of warm weather
- sunshine
- Synonym: heulwen
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-bɔuX (“hand, arm”).[1] Not related to Vietnamese tay (“hand”), though the change of the onset from b to t may have been influenced by it.
Pronunciation
Noun
tes
- hand
- paw
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.