Czech

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Etymology

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Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtamtɛn]
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Pronoun

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tamten

  1. that; that one
    Synonyms: onen, tamhleten

Declension

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Further reading

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  • tamten”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • tamten”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • tamten”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Kashubian

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Etymology

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Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Czech tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtam.tɛn/
  • Rhymes: -amtɛn
  • Syllabification: tam‧ten

Pronoun

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tamten

  1. that, that one

Further reading

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  • tamten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. First attested in 1666.

Pronoun

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tamten

  1. that, that one
  2. past, previous

Descendants

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  • Slovak: tamten

References

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  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “tamten”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polish

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Etymology

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Univerbation of tam +‎ ten.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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tamten

  1. that, that one
    Synonym: ów

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tamten is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 8 times in essays, 57 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 122 times, making it the 495th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tamten”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “tamten”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “tamten”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “tamten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 595

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Slovak tamten. By surface analysis, univerbation of tam +‎ ten. Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, and Silesian tamtyn.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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tamten

  1. that, that one
  2. (colloquial) past, previous

Descendants

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  • Slovak: tamten

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