# tes
## English
### Noun

tes
* plural of te

### Anagrams

* Tse, StE, -est, set, TSE, est, Set, Est., seṭ, ETS, STE, est., tse, ETs, Ste, EST, Ste., SET, Est

## Brokskat
### Pronoun

tes
* they

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tens.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtes]
* (Alghero) IPA: /tes/

#### Adjective

tes (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural teses)
* tight, taut (not loose)

##### Derived terms

* tesar

##### Related terms

* tendir
* tensió

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtes]

#### Noun

tes
* plural of te (“tea”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtes]

#### Noun

tes
* plural of te (“the letter T”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtes]
* (Alghero) IPA: /tes/

#### Verb

tes
* (Balearic, Alghero) first-person singular present indicative of tesar

### Etymology 5

Inherited from Vulgar Latin tās, reduced form of Latin tuās.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [təs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [tes]

#### Determiner

tes
* (obsolete) feminine plural of ton

### Further reading

* “tes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛs]
* Hyphenation: tes

### Noun

tes m inan
* beam, pale, batten
    Synonyms: tesa, lať, trám
* (literary) Alternative form of útes

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “tes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “tes”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Noun

tes c
* indefinite genitive singular of te

## Franco-Provençal
### Determiner

tes
* feminine plural of ton
* Alternative form of tos, masculine plural of ton

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French tes, from Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛ/, (in liaison) /tɛ.z‿/ ~ /te.z‿/
* IPA: /te/, (in liaison) /te.z‿/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: té, tés, thé, thés, thée, thées

### Determiner

tes pl (masculine ton, feminine ta)
* your (when referring to a plural noun)
    J’aime bien tes voisins.I like your neighbors.

#### Related terms
### Further reading

* “tes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* est, set, Ste.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛs/

### Noun

tes m pl
* plural of te

### Verb

tes
* second-person singular present indicative of ter
    Pero xa tes a miña palabra que é coma un documento.But you already have my word which is like a document.

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tes”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English test, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt̪ɛs]
* Hyphenation: tès

### Noun

tes (plural)
* test
    Synonyms: pengetesan, pengujian, ujian

#### Affixed terms

* mengetes
* pengetes
* pengetesan

### Further reading

* “tes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle Dutch
### Contraction

tes
* Contraction of te des.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin tuōs, tuī and tuas, tuae.

### Pronoun

tes m pl or f pl
* your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

#### Descendants

* French: tes

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtes/ [ˈt̪es]
* Rhymes: -es
* Syllabification: tes
* Homophones: tés, (Latin America) tez

### Noun

tes f pl
* plural of te

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tes
* indefinite genitive singular of te

### Etymology 2

From Latin thesis and Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “a proposition, a statement”), used in Swedish since 1664.

#### Noun

tes c
* a thesis, a statement, a hypothesis, a doctrine, an idea, a thought, a theory
    De 95 teserna om avlatens innebörd
       The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
    tes och antites
       thesis and antithesis

##### Related terms

* antites
* hypotes
* syntes
* testuggande

### References

* tes in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tes in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* Set, est, set

## Ternate
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test some time during the British occupation of Ternate (1810-1817).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtes]

### Noun

tes
* a test
* an examination (for school, etc.)

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh tes, from Proto-Brythonic *tes, from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Irish teas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /teːs/
* Rhymes: -eːs

### Noun

tes m (plural tesoedd)
* heat
    Synonym: gwres
* a period of warm weather
* sunshine
    Synonym: heulwen

#### Derived terms

* cynnes
* tes Mihangel (“St Martin's summer”)
* tesog (“hot [from the sun]; sunny”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-bɔuX (“hand, arm”). Not related to Vietnamese tay (“hand”), though the change of the onset from b to t may have been influenced by it.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /te˩/

### Noun

tes
* hand
* paw

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.