ty

See also: Ty, -ty, ty., .ty, Tý, tŷ, tỷ, Tỵ, and ти

ty - Translingual

Symbol

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.

ty - English

Interjection

(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TY.

Anagrams

YT, yt

ty - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA: [tə̟i̯]

Noun

ty (plural tye)

(poetic, literary) tide
- Synonym: gety

Derived terms

tyhawe

ty - Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ty/

Pronoun

(personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

Related terms

ty - Cornish

Alternative forms

te (Standard Cornish)

Pronoun

you (informal second person singular pronoun)
thou
thee

ty - Czech

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈtɪ]

Pronoun

(personal) you, thou (second person singular)
- Na tvém místě bych udělal to stejné. ― If I were you, I would do the same.

Declension

	singular
	stressed	clitic
nominative	ty
genitive	tebe	tě
dative	tobě	ti
accusative	tebe	tě
vocative	—
locative	tobě
instrumental	tebou

Related terms

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
2nd person	polite	vy	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe, se (clitic)

ty - Danish

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈtˢyˀ]

Verb

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)

to turn to, resort to

ty - Eastern Katu

Adjective

ancient

Derived terms

ty đanh

ty - Guaraní

Noun

urine

ty - Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: [ˈc]
(letter name): IPA: [ˈceː]

Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

The thirty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

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

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

ty - Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA: [tɨ]

Pronoun

ty sg

you (singular, informal)

Declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ty	wej	wy
Genitive	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Dative	śi tebje¹	wama	wam
Accusative	śi tebje¹	waju	was
Instrumental	tobu	wama	wami
Locative	tebje	wama	was
Possessive determiner	twój	waju	waš

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

ty - Middle English

Noun

Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

Determiner

(chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

ty - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

Noun

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)

(pre-2012) alternative form of tøy

Anagrams

ty - Old Czech

Pronunciation

IPA: (earlier) /tɨ/
IPA: (later) /tɪ/

Pronoun

ty (second person)

(personal) you (second person singular)

Declension

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ty	va, vy	vy
genitive	tebe, tě	vajú	vás
dative	tobě, ti	vama	vám, vem
accusative	tě, tebe	va, vy, vajú	vy, vás
vocative	—	—	—
locative	tobě	vajú	vás
instrumental	tobú (tobou), tebú (tebou)	vama	vámi

Descendants

Czech: ty

ty - Old Polish

Pronoun

Singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Polish: ty

ty - Polish

Pronunciation

IPA: /tɨ/
Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

you (second person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

Declension

	singular
nominative	ty
genitive	ciebie/cię
dative	tobie/ci
accusative	ciebie/cię
instrumental	tobą
locative	tobie
vocative	ty

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ty is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 2 times in essays, 250 times in fiction, and 1034 times in plays, totaling 1292 times, making it the 31st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

ty - Silesian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈtɨ/
Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

you singular second person pronoun

ty - Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA: [ti]

Pronoun

you (personal, singular)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ty	vy
genitive	ťa, teba	vás
dative	ti, tebe	vám
accusative	ťa, teba	vás
locative	tebe	vás
instrumental	tebou	vami

ty - Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA: /tyː/

Conjunction

(archaic, poetic, biblical) for (because)
- Synonyms: därför att, eftersom, emedan, för
- Ty riket är ditt ― For the kingdom is yours

Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

Verb

ty (present tyr, preterite tydde, supine tytt, imperative ty)

to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.
- När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar
  - When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

Conjugation

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	ty		—
Supine	tytt		—
Imperative	ty		—
Imper. plural¹	tyn		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	tyr	tydde	—	—
Ind. plural¹	ty	tydde	—	—
Subjunctive²	ty	tydde	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	tyende
Past participle	—
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

ty - Tapayuna

Pronunciation

IPA: /t̪ɨ/

Noun

seed

ty - Upper Sorbian

Pronoun

you, thou

Declension

First person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ja			mój		my
Genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
Accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
Locative	mni			namaj		nas
Second person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ty			wój		wy
Genitive	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Dative	æi (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
Accusative	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
Locative	tebi			wamaj		was
Third person pronouns
	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual virile	Dual nonvirile	Plural virile	Plural nonvirile
Nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
Genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
Locative	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nich

ty - Xhosa

Pronunciation

IPA: /tʲ/

Letter

ty (upper case Ty)

A digraph in Xhosa orthography.

ty - Yola

Noun

drink