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== Translingual == === Etymology === Abbreviation of English Tswana or Tswana Setswana. === Symbol === tn (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tswana. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Tswana terms == English == === Symbol === tn Trillion. Alternative form: trn Meronym: bn (usually) Trillion short scale. Alternative forms: trn, T Meronyms: M < B, bn (rare) Trillion long scale. Alternative form: trn Meronyms: M < B, bn < T === Adverb === tn (not comparable) (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tonight. === Anagrams === -n't, NT, n't, n/t == Egyptian == === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛn/ Conventional anglicization: ten === Determiner === f sg proximal demonstrative determiner this, that ==== Usage notes ==== This demonstrative was originally a determiner but could later be used alone, like a pronoun. When used as a determiner it follows the noun it describes. It forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative tf, in which tn is proximal. ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === Pronoun === pl or f sg 2. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun Variant spelling of ṯn === References === James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 51, 54–55. Edel, Elmar (1955-1964), Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq. Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN == Estonian == === Noun === tn abbreviation of tänav == Romanian == === Pronoun === tn (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of tine