тень
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ten"
Russian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- тѣнь (těnʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
[edit]From Old East Slavic тѣнь (těnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *těnь.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]тень • (tenʹ) f inan (genitive те́ни, nominative plural те́ни, genitive plural тене́й, relational adjective тенево́й)
- shade
- shadow
- 1972, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], chapter 1, in Пикник на обочине, Ленинград: Аврора; English translation from Olena Bormashenko, transl., Roadside Picnic, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012:
- Не понра́вилась мне э́та покры́шка. Тень от неё кака́я-то ненорма́льная. Со́лнце нам в спи́ну, а тень к нам протяну́лась.
- Ne ponrávilasʹ mne éta pokrýška. Tenʹ ot nejó kakája-to nenormálʹnaja. Sólnce nam v spínu, a tenʹ k nam protjanúlasʹ.
- I don’t like the look of that tire. There’s something wrong with its shadow. The sun is at our backs, but the shadow is stretching toward us.
- vestige, particle, atom, hint
- (in the plural) eye shadow
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]тень • (tenʹ) f anim or f inan (genitive те́ни, nominative plural те́ни, genitive plural те́ней or тене́й)
Declension
[edit]Declension of тень (bian fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a/e irreg)
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | те́нь ténʹ |
те́ни téni | |
genitive | те́ни téni |
те́ней, тене́й ténej, tenéj | |
dative | те́ни téni |
те́ням, теня́м ténjam, tenjám | |
accusative | animate | те́нь ténʹ |
те́ней, тене́й ténej, tenéj |
inanimate | те́ни téni | ||
instrumental | те́нью, те́нию△ ténʹju, téniju△ |
те́нями, теня́ми ténjami, tenjámi | |
prepositional | те́ни téni |
те́нях, теня́х ténjax, tenjáx |
△ Irregular.
Categories:
- Russian terms inherited from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Russian 1-syllable words
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- Russian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Russian/enʲ
- Rhymes:Russian/enʲ/1 syllable
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- Russian 3rd-declension feminine-form nouns
- Russian 3rd-declension feminine-form accent-e nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern e
- Russian nouns with locative singular
- Russian animate nouns
- Russian nouns with multiple animacies
- Russian 3rd-declension feminine-form accent-a nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern a
- Russian nouns with multiple accent patterns
- Russian nouns with multiple declensions
- Russian irregular nouns
- Russian nouns with irregular instrumental singular
- ru:Cosmetics
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