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Scottish Gaelic
Noun
tiotal m (genitive singular tiotal, plural tiotalen)
- title (of a book etc)
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology
tio + tal
Noun
tiotal n
- around ten, some ten
Ett tiotal människor fick föras till sjukhus- Some ten people had to be taken to hospital
- tens
Om summan av entalen är större än tio läggs en minnessiffra till tiotalen- If the sum of the ones is greater than ten, a carry is added to the tens
- (usually in the definite "tiotalet") the oneties, the 10s or 10's, the second decade of a century (especially the 1910s or 2010s)
Usage notes
The -tal suffix is only used for even tens in (sense 1).
Declension
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