tamten

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtamtɛn]
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

tamten

  1. that; that one
    Synonyms: onen, tamhleten

Declension
Declension of tamten (irregular)
singular
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter
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 animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter
nominative tamti tamty tamta
genitive tamtěch
dative tamtěm
accusative tamty tamta
locative tamtěch
instrumental tamtěmi

Further reading
  • tamten in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tamten in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • tamten in Internetová jazyková příručka

Kashubian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtamtɛn/
  • Syllabification: tam‧ten

Pronoun

tamten

  1. that, that one

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

Old Slovak

Etymology

Univerbation of tam +‎ ten. First attested in 1666.

Pronoun

tamten

  1. that, that one
  2. past, previous

Descendants
  • Slovak: tamten

References
  • 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtam.tɛn/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈtam.ten/
  • Audio 1(file)
  • Audio 2(file)
  • Rhymes: -amtɛn
  • Syllabification: tam‧ten

Pronoun

tamten

  1. that, that one
    Synonym: ów

Declension
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

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
  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

Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtamcen]

Pronoun

tamten

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

Descendants

References
  • “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, 2024
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