tv

See also: TV, .tv, tv., and Tv.

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tiviː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tivi/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

tv (countable and uncountable, plural tvs)

1. Alternative form of TV.
   • 2015, E[dward] L. Risden, “Introduction. The ‘Author of the Century’ in His Century: Extending the Intellectual Landscape”, in Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 16:

     The fantasy trilogy hasn’t disappeared; it has gained momentum and in some instances become a dodecalogy, and the material of modern fantasy has spread from print to subway graffiti, role-playing games, film, tv, and online culture.

   • 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 73:

     Besides, I’m not a tv presenter, but a writer, in case you haven’t noticed.

Anagrams

• VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

Danish

Etymology

Abbreviation for television.

Noun

tv n (singular definite tv'et, plural indefinite tv'er)

1. TV

Inflection

Declension of tv

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tv	tv'et	tv'er	tv'erne
genitive	tv's	tv'ets	tv'ers	tv'ernes

Synonyms

• fjernsyn

Derived terms

Derived terms

• betalings-tv
• farve-tv
• højdefinitions-tv
• kabel-tv
• tekst-tv
• tv-apparat
• tv-avis
• tv-overvåge

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tv

1. Abbreviation of televisie.

Derived terms

• tv-kijken

 

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: tévé
• → Sranan Tongo: teifei

Finnish

Alternative forms

• TV

Etymology

See TV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˌʋeː/, [ˈt̪e̞ːˌʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

tv

1. TV, television

Declension

Inflection of tv (Kotus type filee) singular plural nominative tv tv:t genitive tv:n tv:iden tv:itten partitive tv:tä tv:itä accusative tv tv:n tv:t inessive tv:ssä tv:issä elative tv:stä tv:istä illative tv:hen tv:seen tv:ihin tv:isiin adessive tv:llä tv:illä ablative tv:ltä tv:iltä allative tv:lle tv:ille essive tv:nä tv:inä translative tv:ksi tv:iksi abessive tv:ttä tv:ittä instructive – tv:in comitative – tv:ineen

Derived terms

compounds

• digi-tv
• kaapeli-tv
• tosi-tv
• tv-antenni
• tv-elokuva
• tv-kanava
• tv-kasvo
• tv-ohjelma
• tv-sarja
• tv-sovitin
• tv-uutiset
• tv-vastaanotin

 

Further reading

• “tv”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Greenlandic

Noun

tv

1. television
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Immaqa imaassinnaavoq aamma nunattinni tv-mik isiginnaartartut periarfissinneqarumaartut takusinnaasallugu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• TV (nonstandard but fairly common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈteːveː]

Noun

tv (plural tv-k)

1. television, TV

   Synonyms: tévé, televízió

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tv	tv-k
accusative	tv-t	tv-ket
dative	tv-nek	tv-knek
instrumental	tv-vel	tv-kkel
causal-final	tv-ért	tv-kért
translative	tv-vé	tv-kké
terminative	tv-ig	tv-kig
essive-formal	tv-ként	tv-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tv-ben	tv-kben
superessive	tv-n	tv-ken
adessive	tv-nél	tv-knél
illative	tv-be	tv-kbe
sublative	tv-re	tv-kre
allative	tv-hez	tv-khez
elative	tv-ből	tv-kből
delative	tv-ről	tv-kről
ablative	tv-től	tv-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tv-é	tv-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tv-éi	tv-kéi

Possessive forms of tv
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tv-m	tv-im
2nd person sing.	tv-d	tv-id
3rd person sing.	tv-je	tv-i
1st person plural	tv-nk	tv-ink
2nd person plural	tv-tek	tv-itek
3rd person plural	tv-jük	tv-ik

See also

• tv. (abbreviation of törvény (“law, act”))

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Noun

tv m (definite singular tv-en, indefinite plural tv-er, definite plural tv-ene)

1. Alternative form of TV

Synonyms

• fjernsyn

References

• “tv” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Noun

tv m (definite singular tv-en, indefinite plural tv-ar, definite plural tv-ane)

1. Alternative letter-case form of TV

Synonyms

• fjernsyn

References

• “tv” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌteˈve/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteˈve/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteˈve/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌteˈbe/ [ˌteˈβe]

Noun

tv f (plural tvs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of TV

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈbe/ [t̪eˈβ̞e]
  • Rhymes: -e
• IPA^(key): /teˈube/ [t̪eˈu.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ube

Noun

tv f (uncountable)

1. (television): TV

   Synonym: tele

Swedish

Alternative forms

• teve

Etymology

Abbreviation for television.

tv-apparater

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˌveː/, /ˈteːˌvɛ/

Noun

tv c

1. television
2. a TV set, a telly
3. Archaic spelling of du (“you”).
   • 1649, Jacobus Petri Chronander, Bele-Snack, Eller Een Ny Comœdia, act I, scene IV, page 40:

     TV Konstrijke Mästare, godt rådh giff,
     Skall man nu skona thenna skelmens lijff?

     YOU artful Master, good counsel give,
     Should one now spare this scoundrel's life?

Declension

Declension of tv

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tv	tv:s
	definite	tv:n	tv:ns
plural	indefinite	tv:ar	tv:ars
	definite	tv:arna	tv:arnas

Anagrams

• v.t.

West Frisian

Etymology

Abbreviation of telefyzje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːfeː/

Noun

tv c (plural tv's, diminutive tv'ke)

1. TV