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tamten

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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Declension of tamten (irregular)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative tamten tamta tamto
genitive tamtoho tamté tamtoho
dative tamtomu tamté tamtomu
accusative tamtoho tamten tamtu tamto
locative tamtom tamté tamtom
instrumental tamtím tamtou tamtím
plural
masculine feminine neuter
animate inanimate
nominative tamti tamty tamta
genitive tamtěch
dative tamtěm
accusative tamty tamta
locative tamtěch
instrumental tamtěmi

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), 2008–2025

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

Declension

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Declension of tamten (irregular)
singular plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter virile (= masculine personal) non-virile
nominative tamten tamta tamto tamci tamte
genitive tamtego tamtej tamtego tamtych
dative tamtemu tamtej tamtemu tamtym
accusative tamtego tamten tamtę, tamtą1 tamto tamtych tamte
instrumental tamtym tamtą tamtym tamtymi
locative tamtym tamtej tamtym tamtych

1Proscribed but much more common.

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]

References

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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

References

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  • “tamten”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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