tiotal
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
tiotal m (genitive singular tiotal, plural tiotalen)
- title (of a book etc)
Derived terms
- fo-thiotal - subtitle
Swedish
Alternative forms
- 10-tal
Etymology
Noun
tiotal n
- around ten, some ten
- Ett tiotal människor fick föras till sjukhus
- Some ten people had to be taken to hospital
- tens
- Om summan av entalen är större än tio läggs en minnessiffra till tiotalen
- If the sum of the ones is greater than ten, a carry is added to the tens
- (usually in the definite "tiotalet") the oneties, the 10s or 10's, the second decade of a century (especially the 1910s or 2010s)
Usage notes
The -tal suffix is only used for even tens in (sense 1).
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | tiotal | tiotals |
| definite | tiotalet | tiotalets | |
| plural | indefinite | tiotal | tiotals |
| definite | tiotalen | tiotalens |
Related terms
- tiotals (“tens of”)
See also
Further reading
- tiotal in Svensk ordbok.