teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Alternative forms

teen-ager

Etymology

teenage +‎ -er

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

A person between 13 and 19 years old.
Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

Marco's main target market are late teenagers.

Synonyms

See more synonyms at Thesaurus:teenager

Hypernyms

adolescent

Coordinate terms

Descendants

→ Danish: teenager
→ French: teenager
→ Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
→ Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)
→ Russian: тине́йджер (tinɛ́jdžer)
→ Spanish: teenager

Translations

person aged between thirteen and nineteen

Afrikaans: tiener
Albanian: ri (sq)
Arabic: مُرَاهِق m (murāhiq)
Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani), թինեյջեր (hy) (tʻineyǰer)
Bashkir: үҫмер (üśmer)
Belarusian: падле́так m (padljétak), тынэ́йджэр m (tynéjdžer)
Bulgarian: тийне́йджър m (tijnéjdžǎr)
Catalan: adolescent (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 少年 (zh) (shàonián), 青少年 (zh) (qīngshàonián)
Cornish: degowek m, degowoges f
Crimean Tatar: ösmür
Czech: výrostek m, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m, dospívající m, teenager m
Danish: teenager (da) c
Dutch: tiener (nl), adolescent (nl) m, puber (nl) m or f
Esperanto: dekkelkjarulo, plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino, adoleskulo, adoleskanto
Estonian: teismeline, noor (et)
Faroese: tannáringur (fo) m
Finnish: teini-ikäinen (fi)
French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f, ado (fr) m or f
Galician: zagalón m, galeote m, adolescente (gl) m or f, rapaz (gl) m, rapazolo m, mozo (gl) m, rapazola f, rapariga f, rapaza f, moza f
Georgian: მოზარდი (mozardi), თინეიჯერი (tineiǯeri)
German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f
Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos), έφηβη (el) f (éfivi)
Greenlandic: inuusuttuaraq
Hungarian: serdülő (hu), tini (hu), tinédzser (hu), tizenéves (hu), kamasz (hu)
Icelandic: táningur (is) m, unglingur (is) m
Indonesian: remaja (id)
Irish: déagóir m, déagóirí pl
Italian: giovane (it) c, adolescente (it), ragazzino (it) m, ragazzina (it) f
Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā), ティーンエイジャー (tīn'eijā), 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen), 十代 (ja) (じゅうだい, jūdai)
Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo), 십대(十代) (ko) (sipdae), 10대 (10dae)
Lao: ໄວຫນຸ່ມ (wai num)
Latin: iuvenis (la) c, iuventus m, iuventa f
Latvian: pusaudzis m, pusaudze f, tīnis m, tīne f
Macedonian: тинејџер m (tinejdžer), тинејџерка f (tinejdžerka)
Malay: remaja
Maori: taitamariki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tenåring (no) m

Nynorsk: tenåring m
Persian: نُوْجَوان (fa) (nowjavân)
Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl) f
Portuguese: adolescente (pt)
Romagnol: adulescént m
Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f
Russian: подро́сток (ru) m (podróstok), тине́йджер (ru) m (tinɛ́jdžer)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тѝнејџер m

Roman: tìnejdžer (sh) m
Slovak: tínedžer m
Slovene: najstnik m
Sotho: motjha (st)
Spanish: adolescente (es), puberto m (colloquial, Mexico)
Swahili: kijana (sw)
Swedish: tonåring (sv) c
Tagalog: lalabintaunin
Thai: วัยรุ่น (th) (wai-rûn)
Turkish: genç (tr)
Ukrainian: підлі́ток (uk) m (pidlítok), тіне́йджер m (tinéjdžer)
Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi)
Welsh: plentyn yn ei arddegau m, person yn ei arddegau m, person ifanc yn ei arddegau m, arddegyn m
Yiddish: צענערלינג m (tsenerling)
Zazaki: genc

Anagrams

generate, green tea, renegate

Danish

Etymology

From English teenager.

Noun

teenager c (definite singular teenageren, indefinite plural teenagere or teenagers, definite plural teenagerne)

a teenager

References

“teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English teenager.

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

teenager

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʝeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tiˈneiʃeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʃeɾ]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʒeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʒeɾ]

Rhymes: -eiʝeɾ

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers or teenager)

teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)
Synonym: adolescente

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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