t

See also: T, and Appendix:Variations of "t"

t	U+0074, t LATIN SMALL LETTER T

← s
[U+0073]

Basic Latin

u →
[U+0075]

Character variations

ᵗ	U+1D57, ᵗ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T

← ᵖ
[U+1D56]

Phonetic Extensions

ᵘ →
[U+1D58]

ｔ	U+FF54, ｔ FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER T

← ｓ
[U+FF53]

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

ｕ →
[U+FF55]


Some sans-serif typefaces have a straight and symmetrical t. This is especially common in children's books.

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Afar • Azerbaijani • Basque • Central Mazahua • Chipewyan • Danish • Dutch • Egyptian • Esperanto • Faroese • Finnish • French • Fula • German • Gothic • Heiltsuk • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Ilocano • Irish • Italian • Kankanaey • Kashubian • Kiowa • Latin • Latvian • Livonian • Malay • Maltese • Navajo • North Frisian • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nupe • Polish • Portuguese • Romani • Romanian • Saterland Frisian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbo-Croatian • Silesian • Skolt Sami • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Tlingit • Turkish • Turkmen • Welsh • Yele • Yoruba • Zulu

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Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:

t

Wikipedia

Letter

t (upper case T)

The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation of IPA [tɑː, ɑttɑː] with the sound [t]: (file)

Symbol

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Voiceless alveolar plosive

Wikipedia

t

(IPA) a voiceless alveolar/dental plosive.
(superscript ⟨ᵗ⟩, IPA) [t]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [t]-release, [t]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [t].
(mathematics, physics) time
tonne
(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".

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /tiː/
- Audio (General American): (file)
- Rhymes: -iː
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
(main allophones): IPA^(key): [tʰ], [t], [t̬], [ɾ], [ʔ]

Letter

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

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

Number

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

t

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

Noun

t (uncountable)

Abbreviation of time.
Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.
(UK) Alternative letter-case form of T, tonne.
(historical) Abbreviation of tomin.

Alternative forms

t.

Derived terms

Afar

Letter

t

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

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t lower case (upper case T)

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

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Chipewyan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Danish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /teː/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

Noun

t

ton

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /teː/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

the twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet

Etymology 2

Pronoun

t

(text messaging) Nonstandard form of 't.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛ/
- Conventional anglicization: te

Noun

m

bread

Inflection

Declension of t (masculine)

singular	t
dual	twj
plural	tw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of t

t

[chiefly Old Kingdom]

[since the Middle Kingdom]

abbreviation

abbreviation in names
of types of ritual loaves

Derived terms

References

“tʾ (lemma ID 168810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], 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 name): IPA^(key): /to/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
Audio: (file)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

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

Audio; “tee, tuttu, tarvita, tee”: (file)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Noun

t

Abbreviation of tavu.

French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /te/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.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

(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!

Fula

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

German

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Derived terms

Wohlklangs-t

Related terms

t euphonicum

Gothic

Romanization

t

Romanization of 𐍄

Heiltsuk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈt]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈteː]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Icelandic

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Ido

Pronunciation

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

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Ilocano

Etymology 1

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twenty-third letter of the Ilocano alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Clipping of ti (“the”), homophonous to ti.

Article

t

(text messaging, Internet slang) Nonstandard spelling of ti.

Irish

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Letter

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

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

Kankanaey

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog t. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English t.

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ti/ [ti̞]
- Rhymes: -i
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/ [t̚]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twenty-second letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

References

Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy‎^[3] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

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)

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

Kiowa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Kiowa alphabet.

Latin

Letter

t

A letter of the Latin alphabet.

References

t in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

t

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

IPA^(key): [t]

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t̪/

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Malay

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Maltese

Pronunciation

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

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Navajo

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

North Frisian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tʰ~t] (generally)
IPA^(key): [d̥] (Sylt, when intervocalic in an unstressed syllable, merges with ⟨d⟩)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Palatal ⟨tj⟩ is usually pronounced [t͡ʃ] at the start of a word or stressed syllable.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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

Letter

t

The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

T

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)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

t

Abbreviation of time.
Abbreviation of tonn.
(music) Abbreviation of tempo.
(music) Abbreviation of tenor.
(historical) Initialism of tilfredsstillande (academic grade).
Abbreviation of tara.
(music) Abbreviation of tonika (“tonic”).

Preposition

t

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

References

“t” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

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

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/

Letter

t (upper case T, lower case)

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

Portuguese

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ət/
Hyphenation: t

Article

t

Unstressed form of dät

References

Pyt Kramer (1996) Kute Seelter Sproakleere‎^[4], Mildam, page 10

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪ʰ/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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”).

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

T (uppercase)

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (Cyrillic spelling т)

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)

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

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Spanish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (phoneme) /t/
IPA^(key): (letter name) /ˈte/ [ˈt̪e]
- Audio (Spain): (file)
- Rhymes: -e

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

Noun

t m or f (uncountable)

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

Alternative forms

t.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/ [t̪e]
Rhymes: -e

Preposition

t

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teː/
Audio: (file)
Homophones: T, te
Rhymes: -eː

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twentieth letter of the Swedish alphabet

Declension

Declension of t

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	t	ts
singular	definite	t:et	t:ets
plural	indefinite	t:n	t:ns
plural	definite	t:na	t:nas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish t. Each pronunciation has a different source:

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

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -i
- IPA^(key): /ˈta/ [ˈt̪a] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -a
- IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
  - Rhymes: -e
- IPA^(key): /t/ [t̪] (phoneme)

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

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

Tlingit

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /tiː/
- (informal) IPA^(key): /tə/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

The twenty-fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by th.

Mutation

t at the beginning of words mutates to d in a soft mutation, to nh in a nasal mutation and to th in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word tŷ (“house”):

Mutated forms of tŷ
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tŷ	dŷ	nhŷ	thŷ

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yele

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪/

Letter

t (upper case T)

A letter of the Yele alphabet.

Derived terms

The digraph ⟨tp⟩ transcribes the single consonant /t̪͡p/

There is a digraph for palatalized ⟨tpy⟩. (Expected *ty is written ⟨ch⟩)

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /tí/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

Zulu

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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