-te

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Chuukese

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Suffix

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-te

  1. (auxiliary) Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch -ede, from Old Dutch -itha, from Proto-West Germanic *-iþu, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

Middle Dutch -ede was shortened to -de in late Middle Dutch, and the suffix was devoiced to -te according to the 't kofschip rule. This voiceless variety was then taken to be the suffix proper and the voiced variety gradually fell out of use.

Suffix

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-te f (plural -ten or -tes)

  1. appended to an adjective, making a feminine noun which refers to the size or quality referred to by the adjective, cognate to -th.
    hoog + ‎-te → ‎hoogte
    ruim + ‎-te → ‎ruimte
    breed + ‎-te → ‎breedte
    lang + ‎-te → ‎lengte
    gewoon + ‎-te → ‎gewoonte
  2. appended to the stem of a verb, yields a feminine noun which refers to the object of such a verb.
    behoeven + ‎-te → ‎behoefte
    beloven + ‎-te → ‎belofte
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Etymology 2

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-te

  1. See ge- -te.

Etymology 3

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-te

  1. (after voiceless consonants) Alternative form of -de (forms the singular of the past tense of weak verbs)
    maken + ‎-te → ‎maakte

German

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle High German -te, -ete, from a merger of several Old High German conjugations.

Alternative forms

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  • -ete (used with most stems in -d, -t, and consonant + -n, -m)

Suffix

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-te

  1. forms the first-person and third-person singular of the past tense and past subjunctive of weak verbs and some irregular verbs
    reisen (to travel) + ‎-te → ‎reiste ([I] travelled; [he] travelled)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German and Middle Dutch -te, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō, whence also inherited but equally rare German -de.

Suffix

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-te f (plural -ten)

  1. (rare, not productive, only as synchronic surface analysis) forms nouns from adjectives
    flau (slack, windless) + ‎-te → ‎Flaute (slackness, stagnation)
    halb (half) + ‎-te → ‎Hälfte (half, fifty percent)
    raum (wide, open) + ‎-te → ‎Räumte (cargo capacity of a ship)

Hungarian

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-te

    1. (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.
      keres (to search) + ‎-te → ‎kereste (he/she (has/had) searched)
    2. (verbal-participle suffix) Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.
      nevel (to bring up, to raise) + ‎-te → ‎[az anyja] nevelte [gyermek] ([the child] raised by [his/her mother], literally his/her-mother-raised child)
  1. (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.
    érkezik (to arrive) + ‎-te → ‎érkezte (his/her/its arrival)

Usage notes

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  • (past-tense and verbal-participle suffix) Variants:
    -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
    -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
    -tta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (, , szí; ó, ; )
    -tte is added to front-vowel verbs ending in a vowel (, , sző; nyű)
    -otta is added to back-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (fut, nyit, except lát)
    -ette is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (vet)
    -ötte is added to rounded front-vowel verbs ending in two consonants or a long vowel + t, or to monosyllables ending in -t (köt, süt, üt)
  • (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
    -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
    -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
    -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally )
    -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)
    -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)

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Irish

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-te

  1. slender form of -ta (plural suffix)
  2. slender form of -ta (past participle suffix)

Latin

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-te

  1. masculine vocative singular of -tus

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old French -te, -tet, from Latin -tās, -tātem; compare -ite.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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-te

  1. Forms abstract nouns from adjectives.
    Synonym: -ite
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  • Syncope sometimes results in the replacement of -ite with -te. For instance, trinte is sometimes found for trinite (Trinity).
  • Conversely, learned influence may sometimes result in -te with -ite, especially when the word goes back to a Latin original with -itās. This is exemplified by the replacement of personalte (personality) with personalite in later Middle English (compare Latin persōnālitās).
  • As in modern English, -ite tends to attract stress to the antepenultimate syllable, while -te leaves stress where it was on the root.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • English: -ty
  • Scots: -ty
References
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Etymology 2

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-te

  1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -th (abstract nominal suffix)

Etymology 3

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-te

  1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (abstract nominal suffix)

Etymology 4

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-te

  1. (following fricatives) Alternative form of -the (ordinal suffix)

Etymology 5

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-te

  1. Alternative form of -ty

Old English

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-te

  1. Alternative form of -de used to form the first and third person singular preterite indicative of certain class I weak verbs
    reċċan (to explain, argue) + ‎-te → ‎rehte (I/he/she/it explained, argued)

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian -te, -ithe, from Proto-Germanic *-iþō. More at -th.

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-te f

  1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish -de.

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-te

  1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
    'S crìochnaichte an sgeul.The story is finished.
    beum (stress) + ‎-te → ‎beumte (stressed)
    blas (taste) + ‎-te → ‎blasta (tasty)
    drabas (filthiness of speech, smut) + ‎-te → ‎drabasda (obscene, ribald, smutty, dirty, indelicate)

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Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Suffix

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-te

  1. Alternative form of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in a unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which end in -er in the present tense)

Anagrams

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Turkish

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Suffix

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-te

  1. Alternative form of -da (locative suffix) (after a front vowel followed by an unvoiced consonant)