Ten in Different Languages
Discover 'Ten' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Ten
Afrikaans hierdie | ||
Albanian kjo | ||
Amharic ይህ | ||
Arabic هذه | ||
Armenian սա | ||
Assamese দহ | ||
Aymara tunka | ||
Azerbaijani bu | ||
Bambara tan | ||
Basque hau | ||
Belarusian гэта | ||
Bengali এই | ||
Bhojpuri दस | ||
Bosnian ovo | ||
Bulgarian това | ||
Catalan això | ||
Cebuano kini | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 这个 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 這個 | ||
Corsican questu | ||
Croatian ovaj | ||
Czech tento | ||
Danish dette | ||
Dhivehi ދިހައެއް | ||
Dogri दस | ||
Dutch dit | ||
English ten | ||
Esperanto ĉi tio | ||
Estonian seda | ||
Ewe ewo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sampu | ||
Finnish tämä | ||
French ce | ||
Frisian dizze | ||
Galician isto | ||
Georgian ეს | ||
German diese | ||
Greek αυτό | ||
Guarani pa | ||
Gujarati આ | ||
Haitian Creole sa a | ||
Hausa wannan | ||
Hawaiian kēia | ||
Hebrew זֶה | ||
Hindi यह | ||
Hmong no | ||
Hungarian ez | ||
Icelandic þetta | ||
Igbo nke a | ||
Ilocano sangapulo | ||
Indonesian ini | ||
Irish seo | ||
Italian questo | ||
Japanese この | ||
Javanese iki | ||
Kannada ಇದು | ||
Kazakh бұл | ||
Khmer នេះ | ||
Kinyarwanda icumi | ||
Konkani धा | ||
Korean 이 | ||
Krio tɛn | ||
Kurdish ev | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دە | ||
Kyrgyz бул | ||
Lao ນີ້ | ||
Latin haec | ||
Latvian šo | ||
Lingala zomi | ||
Lithuanian tai | ||
Luganda kkumi | ||
Luxembourgish dëst | ||
Macedonian ова | ||
Maithili दस | ||
Malagasy izany | ||
Malay ini | ||
Malayalam ഈ | ||
Maltese dan | ||
Maori tenei | ||
Marathi हे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯔꯥ | ||
Mizo sawm | ||
Mongolian энэ | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဒီ | ||
Nepali यो | ||
Norwegian dette | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ichi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦଶ | ||
Oromo kudhan | ||
Pashto دا | ||
Persian این | ||
Polish ten | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) esta | ||
Punjabi ਇਹ | ||
Quechua chunka | ||
Romanian acest | ||
Russian это | ||
Samoan lenei | ||
Sanskrit दशम | ||
Scots Gaelic seo | ||
Sepedi lesome | ||
Serbian ово | ||
Sesotho sena | ||
Shona ichi | ||
Sindhi هي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මේ | ||
Slovak toto | ||
Slovenian to | ||
Somali tan | ||
Spanish esta | ||
Sundanese ieu | ||
Swahili hii | ||
Swedish detta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ito | ||
Tajik ин | ||
Tamil இது | ||
Tatar ун | ||
Telugu ఇది | ||
Thai นี้ | ||
Tigrinya ዓሰርተ | ||
Tsonga khume | ||
Turkish bu | ||
Turkmen on | ||
Twi (Akan) edu | ||
Ukrainian це | ||
Urdu یہ | ||
Uyghur ئون | ||
Uzbek bu | ||
Vietnamese điều này | ||
Welsh hyn | ||
Xhosa le | ||
Yiddish דאָס | ||
Yoruba eyi | ||
Zulu lokhu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "hierdie" is a cognate of the Dutch "deze," and both derive from the Old English "þeos" meaning "this." |
| Albanian | The word 'kjo' is also used to refer to 'the ten commandments' and is related to the word 'command' in English. |
| Amharic | The word "ይህ" can also mean "it" or "this" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "هذه" (ten) comes from the Proto-Semitic word "*ʔašru", which also meant "ten" and is the origin of the word "ten" in many other languages. |
| Armenian | 'Սա' can also mean 'this' or 'that' in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | "Bu" in Azerbaijani is cognate with the Georgian word "bo" and the Lezgian word "bu" and possibly derived from the Proto-North-East Caucasian form *bʸu |
| Basque | The word 'hamar' is also used for 'ten', particularly by older Basque speakers and in some rural areas. |
| Belarusian | The word "гэта" (ten) in Belarusian also means "this" in Russian and "these" in Polish. |
| Bengali | The word "এই" in Bengali has a secondary meaning of "such," derived from the Middle Bengali word "এতাই" meaning "to this extent or amount." |
| Bosnian | The word 'ovo' can also mean 'so' or 'therefore' in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "това" also means "that" in Bulgarian, and is related to the Old Bulgarian word "тъ" meaning "this". |
| Catalan | "Això" derives from the Latin word "ipse" (meaning "this" or "these") and is related to the Spanish word "eso" with the same meaning. |
| Cebuano | The word "kini" also means "now" in Cebuano language. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "这个" in Mandarin Chinese can also mean "this one" or "this one here." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In older Chinese texts, "這個" also meant "this one" and "this very thing" |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "questu" also means "this". |
| Croatian | “Ovaj” in Croatian, as in many other Slavic languages, may be related to an Indo-European linguistic superfamily form “awe.” |
| Czech | The word "tento" is sometimes used for "this," or as a more specific form of the definite article. |
| Danish | The Danish word "dette" also means "this" or "this one", and is cognate with the English word "that". |
| Dutch | In the context of poetry it can mean 'song', 'poem' or 'tune' |
| Esperanto | The word "ĉi tio" can also mean "this very thing" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "seda" is derived from the Proto-Baltic word "*sē" meaning "this". |
| Finnish | Although "Tämä" means "ten" in Finnish, it is also used to refer to a finger or a hand. |
| French | The French word "ce" also means "this" in masculine singular form, as an equivalent to the pronoun "ça" |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'dizze' ('ten') is cognate with the Dutch 'tiens' ('ten'), which in turn comes from the Proto-Germanic word '*tehun' |
| Galician | The Galician word "isto" also derives from Latin "iste" meaning "this one" and is used as a demonstrative pronoun. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ეს" also means "this" or "these", depending on the context. |
| German | Did you know _diese_ can refer to a group of people, too in German? |
| Greek | Αυτό is an Ancient Greek word meaning 'it', often used to refer to a thing of unknown or unclear nature. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "આ" (ten) is a cognate of the Sanskrit word "दश" (daśa), meaning "ten". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sa a" in Haitian Creole also means "this one" or "this thing". |
| Hausa | "Wanna" means "ten" in Hausa but can also refer to "the decade" or "a group of ten." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kēia" can also mean "this" |
| Hebrew | "זֶה" can mean "this is," "one" (as of a pair), or "masculine noun." |
| Hindi | The word 'यह' also means 'this' and is related to the English word 'thus'. |
| Hmong | The Chinese character that is used to write ''no'' also means, ''difficult; dangerous.'' |
| Hungarian | The word "ez" can also refer to "this" or "here" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The etymology of "þetta" is related to the Proto-Germanic word for "that", and the word has also been historically used in Icelandic for "this". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "nke a" can also mean "the one that is", indicating a specific entity or quality. |
| Indonesian | "Ini" in Indonesian also refers to "this" in English, demonstrating a shared root with "ini" in many Indo-European languages, including English, where it is "this". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'seo' not only means 'ten' but also 'here' or 'this'; as an intensifier it can mean 'well', 'properly', or 'indeed'. |
| Italian | The word "Questo" in Italian can also mean "this" or "the present". |
| Japanese | The word "この" ("ten") can also refer to a measure word for long, thin objects such as sticks or ropes. |
| Javanese | "Iki" in Javanese also means "this one" or "here". |
| Kannada | The word "ಇದು" in Kannada also means "this" or "it", and is used as a demonstrative pronoun. |
| Kazakh | The root of "бұл" (ten) may be related to "бел" (waist), as "ten fingers" can be imagined as a waist of a person. |
| Khmer | The word "នេះ" in Khmer does not have any alternate meanings. |
| Korean | "이" is also often used in Korean to indicate "this" or "here." |
| Kurdish | Although commonly known as "ten," the Kurdish word "ev" primarily denotes the number "nine." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "бул" ("ten") in Kyrgyz is also used to express "a lot" or "many". |
| Lao | "นี้นิ" is a common phrase that is often used as a term of endearment in Lao. |
| Latvian | "Šo" may also be the root word for "šis" |
| Lithuanian | The word "tai" can also refer to a certain measure of weight in ancient Lithuania. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "dëst" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*tehun"," meaning "ten". This word is related to the Old English word "teoðe" and the modern English word "tenth". The Luxembourgish word "dëst" can also be used to refer to the number "one thousand". |
| Macedonian | The number 'ова' can be a noun, an adjective, a numeral, or a personal pronoun, among other parts of speech and semantic values. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "izany" can also be used to mean "to be like this", "such", or "so" |
| Malay | In Malay, "ini" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *sa-ni, meaning "this" and is used as a demonstrative pronoun. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "ഈ" can also refer to "this" or "this one" in addition to meaning "ten." |
| Maltese | Maltese "dan" (ten) likely derives from the Arabic "ʿašara" (ten), ultimately from the Proto-Semitic "*ʿaśr" (ten). |
| Maori | "Tenei" can also be translated to mean "this" and "here". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "हे" (ten) is derived from the Sanskrit word "दश" (dasha), which means "ten" or "group of ten." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "энэ" (ten) is derived from the Proto-Mongolic word *eŋ, which also means "this" in Mongolian. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word ဒီ can also refer to a small coin or a measurement of weight equal to a viss. |
| Nepali | In some contexts, the Nepali word 'यो' can refer to a group of people or a collective noun. |
| Norwegian | The word "dette" also means "this" or "the latter" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Ichikwi" in Nyanja is the term for "eleven," and means "ten and one." |
| Pashto | The word "دا" in Pashto is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dekṃt" and has alternate meanings such as "handful" and "bundle". |
| Persian | In Persian, "این" also means "this" and as a suffix, it becomes "-y" in English, as in "beauty" and "mystery". |
| Polish | The Polish word "dziesięć" (ten) comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*desęť", which is cognate with the Latin word "decem" (ten) and the Greek word "δέκα" (déka) (ten). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "esta" in Portuguese is used to form ordinal numbers and is also a contraction of "este" (this) and "a" (the). |
| Punjabi | "ਇਹ" in Punjabi can refer to both "this" and "ten". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "acest" also means "this". In older Romanian, the same word would be used for both "this" and "ten" based on context, a usage still preserved in some modern dialects. |
| Russian | In Old Church Slavonic, 'это' meant 'hundred'. |
| Samoan | In Samoan the word "lenei" can also mean "the tenth". |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Deich' (ten) is the numeral 'dæc' with the addition of 'h' (aspiration), hence 'Deich' is pronounced 'jay' and not 'daych'. |
| Serbian | The word "ово" (ovo) in Serbian is cognate with the Latin word "octo" (eight), and has been theorized to have originally meant "eight". |
| Sesotho | Sesotho "sena" also refers to a team of ten people tasked with a common goal. |
| Shona | The Shona word "ichi" (ten) also means "a little bit" |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "هي" can also mean "day". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "මේ" can also mean "this" or "these" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | Toto in Latin means "who did this?" |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "to" can also be used as a prefix meaning "this" or "that." |
| Somali | The word "tan" can also refer to a "stick" or "pole" in Somali. |
| Spanish | 'Esta' is derived from the Latin word 'ista', meaning 'this' or 'that'. It can also be used to refer to the current time or situation. |
| Sundanese | The word "ieu" in Sundanese is also used to refer to a collection of ten items. |
| Swahili | "Hii" is also an exclamation used to express surprise or shock. |
| Swedish | "Det" also means "it" in Swedish and is the neuter form of the demonstrative pronoun "den". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | While the number "ten" is "sampu" in Tagalog, "ito" is used as a suffix to indicate the decimal point in prices and numbers. |
| Tajik | The word "ин" "ten" in Tajik is derived from the Persian word "ده" and in many contexts can also mean "village". |
| Tamil | "இது" ("ten") also means "this" or "these" depending on the context. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "ఇది" ("idi") also means "this" or "this thing". |
| Thai | This word also serves as a general classifier in Thai. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "bu" also means "this" and is cognate with the English word "both". |
| Ukrainian | The word "це" can also mean "this" or "here" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | "یہ" (ten) derives from Persian "ده" (dah), and also means "this" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "bu" can also mean "this" or "that" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Điều này" in Vietnamese can also refer to the Vietnamese currency, the đồng. |
| Welsh | The word “hyn” can also refer to a tendon or a string |
| Xhosa | The word "le" also means "to go" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | 'דאָס' is also a form of Yiddish 'עס' ('it') and can be used as a dummy subject analogous to the pronoun 'it' in English. |
| Yoruba | Eyi is also a word for 'bird' in some dialects of Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "lokhu" is derived from the Proto-Bantu word "*kumi" and also means "everything". |
| English | The word |