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test

See also: Test, TEST, tèst, těst, tęst, țest, and tesť

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Noun

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test (plural tests)

  1. A challenge, trial.
    • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:
      Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
  2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
  4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
  5. (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
  6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
     
    Two sea urchin tests
  7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
  8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of “academics: examination”): recess
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Azerbaijani: test
  • → Catalan: test
  • → Czech: test
  • → Danish: test
  • → Dutch: test
  • → Finnish: testi
  • → French: test
  • → German: Test
  • → Hungarian: teszt
  • → Italian: test
  • → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
  • → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
  • → Macedonian: тест (test)
  • → Norwegian: test
  • → Persian: تست (test)
  • → Polish: test
  • → Portuguese: teste
  • → Romanian: test
  • → Russian: тест (test)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тест
    Latin script: test
  • → Slovene: test
  • → Spanish: test
  • → Swedish: test
  • → Turkish: test
  • → Ukrainian: тест (test)
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Verb

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test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
  2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
    to test the soundness of a principle
    to test the validity of an argument
  4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
  5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
    • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎[3], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:
      Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems– […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
  6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.
    • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:
      It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.
  7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
  8. (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
    • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:
      Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.
    • 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)‎[4]performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:
      I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah
Conjugation
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Conjugation of test
infinitive (to) test
present tense past tense
1st-person singular test tested
2nd-person singular test, testest† tested, testedst†
3rd-person singular tests, testeth† tested
plural test
subjunctive test tested
imperative test —
participles testing tested

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Etymology 2

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From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

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test (plural tests)

  1. (obsolete) A witness.

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test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.
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Noun

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test (uncountable)

  1. (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.

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Breton

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test

  1. witness

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.

Noun

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test m (plural testos)

  1. flowerpot
  2. potsherd
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English test.

Noun

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test m (plural tests)

  1. test (exam or challenge)
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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English test.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛst]
  • Hyphenation: test

Noun

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test m inan

  1. test
    provést test ― to perform a test

Declension

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Declension of test (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative test testy
genitive testu testů
dative testu testům
accusative test testy
vocative teste testy
locative testu testech
instrumental testem testy

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  • “test”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “test”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “test”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English test.

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Noun

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test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)

  1. A test, assessment or examination.

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Declension of test
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gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative test testen test
tests
tester 		testene
testerne
genitive tests testens tests
tests' 		testenes
testernes

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English test.

Noun

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test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. test
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Descendants
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  • → Indonesian: tes

Verb

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test

  1. inflection of testen:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

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test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

  1. a test, an earthen bowl or pot
  2. a test, a cupel (used in smelting)
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French

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Etymology 1

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From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

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test m (plural tests)

  1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
  2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

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test m (plural tests)

  1. a test, a tryout, a review
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Of unknown origin.[1]

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Noun

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test (plural testek)

  1. (anatomy) body
  2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
  3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)
 
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Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative test testek
accusative testet testeket
dative testnek testeknek
instrumental testtel testekkel
causal-final testért testekért
translative testté testekké
terminative testig testekig
essive-formal testként testekként
essive-modal — —
inessive testben testekben
superessive testen testeken
adessive testnél testeknél
illative testbe testekbe
sublative testre testekre
allative testhez testekhez
elative testből testekből
delative testről testekről
ablative testtől testektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		testé testeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		testéi testekéi
Possessive forms of test
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. testem testeim
2nd person sing. tested testeid
3rd person sing. teste testei
1st person plural testünk testeink
2nd person plural testetek testeitek
3rd person plural testük testeik

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  1. ^ test in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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  • test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English test.

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Noun

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test m (invariable)

  1. test

Ladin

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test m (plural [please provide])

  1. text

Latvian

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Verb

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test (?? missing information, ?? conjugation, present ??, past ??)

  1. to beat
  2. to knock about
  3. to flog

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English test, ultimately from Latin testum.

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Noun

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test m (plural testijiet)

  1. test (examination)
    Għamluli test tad-droga. ― They did a drug test on me.
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From English test.

Noun

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test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

  1. a test
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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test

  1. imperative of teste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From English test.

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test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

  1. a test

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin testum.

Noun

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test oblique singular, m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

  1. (uncountable) clay
  2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

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  • French: têt, test
  • → Middle English: test
    • English: test (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: test
  • → Middle High German: test

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (test)

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English test, from Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste, from Latin testum, from *terstus.

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Noun

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test m inan

  1. (education) examination, exam, test (formal test)
    Synonyms: egzamin, sprawdzian

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Declension of test
singular plural
nominative test testy
genitive testu testów
dative testowi testom
accusative test testy
instrumental testem testami
locative teście testach
vocative teście testy

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  • test in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • test in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French test.

Noun

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test n (plural teste)

  1. test

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative test testul teste testele
genitive-dative test testului teste testelor
vocative testule testelor

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

  1. test (challenge, trial)
  2. test (academics)
  3. test (product examination)

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Declension of test
singular plural
nominative tȅst tèstovi
genitive testa testova
dative testu testovima
accusative test testove
vocative teste testovi
locative testu testovima
instrumental testom testovima

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English test.

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Noun

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test m (plural test)

  1. test
    Synonym: prueba
  2. multiple-choice test, multiple-choice question
    Synonyms: (Spain) examen tipo test, examen de opción múltiple

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  • The plural form tests is nonstandard.

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English test.

Noun

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test c or n

  1. a test, an examination, a trial
  2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
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Declension of test
nominative genitive
singular indefinite test tests
definite testet testets
plural indefinite test tests
definite testen testens
Declension of test
nominative genitive
singular indefinite test tests
definite testen testens
plural indefinite tester testers
definite testerna testernas
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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test c

  1. a tuft or lock of hair
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Declension of test
nominative genitive
singular indefinite test tests
definite testen testens
plural indefinite testar testars
definite testarna testarnas
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Turkish

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Etymology

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From English test.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtest/
  • Hyphenation: test

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test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

  1. test
  2. An exam consisting of multiple-choice questions with 3, 4 or 5 choices, labeled a through e.

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Inflection
Nominative test
Definite accusative testi
Singular Plural
Nominative test testler
Definite accusative testi testleri
Dative teste testlere
Locative testte testlerde
Ablative testten testlerden
Genitive testin testlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular testim testlerim
2nd singular testin testlerin
3rd singular testi testleri
1st plural testimiz testlerimiz
2nd plural testiniz testleriniz
3rd plural testleri testleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular testimi testlerimi
2nd singular testini testlerini
3rd singular testini testlerini
1st plural testimizi testlerimizi
2nd plural testinizi testlerinizi
3rd plural testlerini testlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular testime testlerime
2nd singular testine testlerine
3rd singular testine testlerine
1st plural testimize testlerimize
2nd plural testinize testlerinize
3rd plural testlerine testlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular testimde testlerimde
2nd singular testinde testlerinde
3rd singular testinde testlerinde
1st plural testimizde testlerimizde
2nd plural testinizde testlerinizde
3rd plural testlerinde testlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular testimden testlerimden
2nd singular testinden testlerinden
3rd singular testinden testlerinden
1st plural testimizden testlerimizden
2nd plural testinizden testlerinizden
3rd plural testlerinden testlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular testimin testlerimin
2nd singular testinin testlerinin
3rd singular testinin testlerinin
1st plural testimizin testlerimizin
2nd plural testinizin testlerinizin
3rd plural testlerinin testlerinin

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