t'
See also: ť and Appendix:Variations of "t"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t], [ʔ], or silent
Etymology 1
From Middle English that, from Old English þæt (“the, that”, neuter definite article and relative pronoun).
Article
t’
- (Northern England) Nonstandard spelling of the. (Most characteristic of Yorkshire, but also found in areas of Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire)
Usage notes
- Before a vowel, t’ is usually written and pronounced as if appended to the following word.
- In He can't make up his mind if he wants one or t’other (= He can't make up his mind if he wants one or the other) t’other is pronounced as if spelled tother. Sometimes it is pronounced as a glottal stop.
- Before a consonant, t’ is pronounced as a glottal stop following the preceding word.
- In I’m going down t’ road to see me mam ( = I’m going down the road to see my mother), down t’ is pronounced as down followed by a glottal stop.
- t’ is sometimes not pronounced at all, having no glottal stop.
Etymology 2
From to.
Preposition
t’
- Nonstandard spelling of to.
Catalan
Pronoun
t'
- Contraction of et.
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t‿/
Pronoun
t'
- elided form of te
- Je t’ai vu - I saw you.
- (slang, colloquial, informal) elided form of tu
- T’as vu mon frère ? - Have you seen my brother?
Related terms
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui, soi | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle, soi | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux, soi | |
| Feminine | elles | elles, soi | |||||||
Further reading
- “t'” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian Creole
Adverb
t'
- Contraction of te.
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t̪ˠ] (before a word starting with a, o, u, fha, fho, or fhu)
- IPA(key): [tʲ] (before a word starting with e, i, fhe, or fhi)
Determiner
t’
- (Cois Fharraige) Alternative form of d’ (“your (singular)”)
Italian
Pronoun
t'
- Apocopic form of ti
- T’odio. ― I hate you.
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Usage notes
Commonly elides before a vowel, especially i and e.
See also
Italian personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | first | — | io | mi, m' | — | me | |||
| second | — | tu | ti, t' | te | |||||
| third | m | lui | si,2 s' | lo, l' | gli | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | lui, sé | |
| f 1 | lei, Lei | la, l', La | le,3 Le | lei, Lei, sé | |||||
| Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c' | — | noi | |||
| second | — | voi | vi, v' | voi | |||||
| third | m | loro, Loro | si, s' | li | gli, loro (formal), Loro |
ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | loro, Loro, sé | |
| f 1 | le | ||||||||
| 1 | The feminine gender forms are also used as formal terms of address, often capitalised as Lei, Loro etc. to distinguish them. | ||||||||
| 2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | ||||||||
| 3 | In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard). | ||||||||
Manx
Verb
t'
- Apocopic form of ta
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