tenth
The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a seriesThe person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
» School begins on April the tenth.
Die Schule beginnt am zehnten April. — MUIRIEL
Der Unterricht beginnt am 10. April. — Esperantostern
Занятия в школе начинаются десятого апреля. — marafon
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5 sensesThe person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
position ten in a countable series of things
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
десятая
a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(UK, historical, in the plural)A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
Examples
69 sentencesSchool begins on April the tenth.
ruЗанятия в школе начинаются десятого апреля. — marafon
deDie Schule beginnt am zehnten April. — MUIRIEL
He is in the tenth grade.
ruОн в десятом классе. — shanghainese
deEr ist in der zehnten Klasse. — al_ex_an_der
We celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary yesterday.
ruВчера мы отпраздновали десятую годовщину нашей свадьбы. — odexed
deWir feierten gestern den zehnten Jahrestag unserer Hochzeit. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom checkmated Mary on the tenth move.
deTom setzte Maria in zehn Zügen schachmatt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
She will return home next Sunday, that is, the tenth.
deSie kommt nächsten Sonntag nach Hause, also am Zehnten. — Yorwba
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe),From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
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