# tena
## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

tena
* any flying insect

## Laboya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈteːna]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tena
* boat

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

tena
* correct
    Antonym: jala

### References

* Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “tena”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtena]

### Adverb

tena (Lontara spelling ᨈᨙᨊ)
* not (clause negator)
    Tena nakulle a'gio'. ― He cannot move.

### Verb

tena (Lontara spelling ᨈᨙᨊ)
* (negative existential) there is not; to have not
    Tena tau ja'dala' anne ri kamponga. ― There is no evil person in this village.
    Tena doekku. ― I don't have money. (literally, “There is no money of mine.”)

### References

* ↑ Aburaerah Arief (1995) Kamus Makassar–Indonesia, Ujung Pandang: Yayaan Perguruan Islam Kapita, page 117.
* ↑ Aburaerah Arief (1995) Kamus Makassar–Indonesia, Ujung Pandang: Yayaan Perguruan Islam Kapita, page 138.

## Maltese

* Root
* t-n-j
* 6 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic ثَنَى (ṯanā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.na/

### Verb

tena (imperfect jitni, past participle mitni, verbal noun tini)
* to fold

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of tena :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| perfect | m | tfejt | tfejt | tefa | tfejna | tfejtu | tfew |
| perfect | f | tfejt | tfejt | tfiet | tfejna | tfejtu | tfew |
| imperfect | m | nitfi | titfi | jitfi | nitfu | titfu | jitfu |
| imperfect | f | nitfi | titfi | titfi | nitfu | titfu | jitfu |
| imperative | | | itfi | | | itfu | |

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tene (e infinitive)

### Etymology

From Old Norse þjóna, þéna.

### Verb

tena (present tense tener, past tense tente, past participle tent, passive infinitive tenast, present participle tenande, imperative ten)
* to earn
    Om sumaren kan dei tena mykje pengar.During the summer, they can earn a lot of money.
* to serve
    Han tente landet sitt.He served his country.

#### References

* “tena” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
* तेन (Devanagari script)
* তেন (Bengali script)
* තෙන (Sinhalese script)
* တေန or တေၼ (Burmese script)
* เตน or เตนะ (Thai script)
* ᨲᩮᨶ (Tai Tham script)
* ເຕນ or ເຕນະ (Lao script)
* តេន (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄬𑄚 (Chakma script)

### Adverb

tena
* there
** 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)‎, page 88:11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත‍්තු වෙදෙහිපුත‍්තො යාවතිකා නාගස‍්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන‍්ත්‍වා නාගා පච‍්චොරොහිත්‍වා පත‍්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ‍්ඩලමාළස‍්ස ද‍්වාරං තෙනුපසඞ‍්කමි.11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃ tenupasaṅkami.11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on foot to where the door of the pavilion was.

### Adjective

tena
* (demonstrative) masculine/neuter instrumental singular of ta (“that”)

### Pronoun

tena
* instrumental singular of ta (“him, it, that”)

## Spanish
### Noun

tena f (plural tenas)
* a type of pepper.

### Further reading

* “tena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

## Swahili
### Etymology

Compare Egyptian Arabic تاني (tāni, [tɛːnɪ], “again”), from Arabic ثانٍ (ṯānin, “second”). The similarity may be coincidental, however.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adverb

tena
* again
    Nitacheza mpira wa miguu tenaI will play football again
* moreover
* (in a negative sentence) again, anymore
    Sisi sio marafiki tenaWe are not friends anymore
    Sijui tenaI don't know anymore

### Conjunction

tena
* and also
** 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:[…] si chini ya miaka thelathini, mwembamba tena mrefu, hadharani wa rangi, kavaa koti na suruali namna moja, rangi ya kijivujivu, […] […] not less than thirty years old, thin and tall, fair-skinned, wearing grey jacket and pants of a kind, […]