tante – French noun declension

Noun: tante
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	tante
Plural f	tantes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like tante

polémochorie, kératotomie, farigoule, compréhension, palestre, abnégation, hyperuricémie, psychométrie, minicassette, piézo-électricité, potabilité, aromathérapie, conjugalité, conjugaison, cohésion, obscurité, bacillose, cohæsion, aponévrotomie, sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.
2. A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus *mante). See: Latin Nouns 'amita'.

Verbs referencing "tante"

Swedish Nouns tant, German Nouns Tante, English Nouns tante, Danish Nouns tante, Dutch Nouns tante, Latvian Nouns tante, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns tante, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tante, Icelandic Nouns tanta, Hungarian Nouns tanti, Romanian Nouns tanti, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns filletante, Hungarian Nouns tánti.

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