tes

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tes"

English

Noun

tes

1. 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

1. they

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtes]
• (Alghero) IPA^(key): /tes/

Adjective

tes (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural teses)

1. tight, taut (not loose)

Derived terms

• tesar

Related terms

• tendir
• tensió

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtes]

Noun

tes

1. plural of te (“tea”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtes]

Noun

tes

1. plural of te (“the letter T”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtes]
• (Alghero) IPA^(key): /tes/

Verb

tes

1. (Balearic, Alghero) first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Etymology 5

Inherited from Vulgar Latin tās, reduced form of Latin tuās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tes]

Determiner

tes

1. (obsolete) feminine plural of ton

Further reading

• “tes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛs]
• Hyphenation: tes

Noun

tes m inan

1. beam, pale, batten

   Synonyms: tesa, lať, trám

2. (literary) Alternative form of útes

Declension

Declension of tes (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	tes	tesy
genitive	tesu	tesů
dative	tesu	tesům
accusative	tes	tesy
vocative	tese	tesy
locative	tesu	tesech
instrumental	tesem	tesy

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

1. indefinite genitive singular of te

Franco-Provençal

Determiner

tes

1. feminine plural of ton
2. Alternative form of tos, masculine plural of ton

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tes, from Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ/, (in liaison) /tɛ.z‿/ ~ /te.z‿/
• IPA^(key): /te/, (in liaison) /te.z‿/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: té, tés, thé, thés, thée, thées

Determiner

tes pl (masculine ton, feminine ta)

1. your (when referring to a plural noun)

   J’aime bien tes voisins.

   I like your neighbors.

Related terms

French possessive determiners

			Possessee
			singular		plural
			m	f
Possessor	singular	1st	mon1	ma	mes
		2nd	ton1	ta	tes
		3rd	son1	sa	ses
	plural	1st	notre		nos
		2nd	votre2		vos2
		3rd	leur		leurs

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

• “tes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• est, set, Ste.

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs/

Noun

tes m pl

1. plural of te

Verb

tes

1. 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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tes”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛs]
• Hyphenation: tès

Noun

tes (plural tes-tes, first-person possessive tesku, second-person possessive tesmu, third-person possessive tesnya)

1. test.

   Synonyms: pengetesan, pengujian, ujian

Affixed terms

• mengetes
• pengetes
• pengetesan

 

Further reading

• “tes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle Dutch

Contraction

tes

1. Contraction of te des.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.

Pronoun

tes m pl or f pl

1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

Descendants

• French: tes

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtes/ [ˈt̪es]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: tes
• Homophones: tés, (Latin America) tez

Noun

tes f pl

1. plural of te

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

tes

1. 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

1. 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

Declension of tes

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tes	tes
	definite	tesen	tesens
plural	indefinite	teser	tesers
	definite	teserna	tesernas

Related terms

• antites
• hypotes
• syntes
• testuggande

References

• tes in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tes in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Set, est, set

Ternate

Etymology

Borrowed from English test some time during the British occupation of Ternate (1810-1817).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtes]

Noun

tes

1. a test
2. 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

• IPA^(key): /teːs/
• Rhymes: -eːs

Noun

tes m (plural tesoedd)

1. heat

   Synonym: gwres

2. a period of warm weather
3. sunshine

   Synonym: heulwen

Derived terms

• cynnes
• tes Mihangel (“St Martin's summer”)
• tesog (“hot [from the sun]; sunny”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tes	des	nhes	thes
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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”). Not related to Vietnamese tay (“hand”), though the change of the onset from b to t may have been influenced by it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te˩/

Noun

tes

1. hand
2. paw

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.