-teen

See also: teen and teen-

English

Etymology

From Middle English -tene, from Anglian Old English -tēne (compare West Saxon -tīene), from an inflected form of Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun (“ten”).

Suffix

-teen

1. Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

Usage notes

In Internet slang usage, the “teen” may be written out in letters following a number, for example: 3teen, 5teen, 8teen, meaning thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen respectively.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -teen

eighteen

eleventeen

fifteen

fourteen

nineteen

seventeen

sixteen

thirteen

threeteen

twelveteen

umpteen

Translations

to form numbers 13 - 19

• Afrikaans: -tien
• Albanian: -mbëdhjetë (11 to 19)
• Arabic: ... عَشَرَ (... ʕašara) (11 to 19)
• Armenian: տասն- (hy) (tasn-) (11 to 19)
• Bavarian: -zea
• Belarusian: -наццаць (-naccacʹ) (11 to 19)
• Bulgarian: -надесет (-nadeset) (11 to 19)
• Catalan: -ze (11 to 16), di- (ca) (17 to 19)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十... (zh) (shí...) (11 to 19)

• Czech: -náct (11 to 19)
• Danish: -ten (13 to 19)
• Dutch: -tien
• Esperanto: dek ... (eo) (11 to 19)
• Estonian: -teist (11 to 19)
• Faroese: -tan (13 to 16), -tjan (17 to 19)
• Finnish: -toista (11 to 19)
• French: -ze (11 to 16), dix- (17 to 19)
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: -täin

  West Frisian: -tjin

• Georgian: თ...მეტი (t...meṭi) (11 to 19)
• German: -zehn (de)
• Gothic: -𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (-taihun)
• Greek: δεκα- (deka-)
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmā- (11 to 19)
• Hebrew: ... עשר (he) m (... 'asár) (11 to 19), ... עשרה (he) f (... 'esré) (11 to 19)
• Hungarian: tizen- (hu) (11 to 19)
• Icelandic: -tán (13 to 16), -tján (17 to 19)
• Indonesian: ... belas (id) (11 to 19)
• Irish: ... déag (after consonant), ... dhéag (after vowel) (11 to 19)

  Old Irish: deäc (11 to 19)

• Italian: -dici (11 to 16), dici- (17 to 19)
• Japanese: 十... (ja) (じゅう..., jū...) (11 to 19)
• Korean: 열... (ko) (yeol...) (11 to 19)
• Latin: (indeclinable) -decim (used for 11 to 17, and occasionally up to 19)
• Latvian: -padsmit (11 to 19)
• Lithuanian: -lika (11 to 19)
• Macedonian: -наесет (-naeset) (11 to 19)
• Malay:

  Jawi: ... بلس (ms) (11 to 19)

  Rumi: ... belas (ms) (11 to 19)

• Manx: jeig
• Navajo: -tsʼáadah
• Northern Sami: -nuppelohkái
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -ten

  Nynorsk: -ten

• Polish: -naście (pl) (11 to 19)
• Portuguese: -ze (11 to 15), deze- (16, 17, 19), dez- (18)
• Romanian: -sprezece (11 to 19)
• Russian: -надцать (ru) (-nadcatʹ) (11 to 19)
• Scottish Gaelic: deug ... (11, 13 to 19), dheug ... (12)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -наест (11 to 19)

  Roman: -naest (11 to 19)

• Slovak: -násť (11 to 19)
• Slovene: -najst (11 to 19)
• Spanish: -ce (es) (11 to 15), dieci- (16 to 19)
• Swedish: -ton
• Tagalog: labing- (11 to 19)
• Turkish: on ... (tr) (11 to 19)
• Ukrainian: -надцять (-nadcjatʹ) (11 to 19)
• Welsh: un deg... (11 to 19, decimal system)

Anagrams

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

Middle English

Suffix

-teen

1. Alternative form of -tene