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# teens

«teens» in Mova's school dictionary: **the years of your life when your age ends in «-teen»…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural: the teens, one's teens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your teens are the years of your life when your age ends in «-teen», from 13 to 19. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#m1)

2) Teens are teenagers, young people aged 13 to 19. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#m2)

3) The teens can also mean numbers from 13 to 19, or temperatures in that range. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: «She is in her teens», «books for teens». In maths, the teen numbers (13 to 19) are often learnt together; watch that «thirteen» (13) is not mixed up with «thirty» (30). In weather, «temperatures in the low teens» means about 13 to 15 degrees.

### examples

- My cousin is in her teens now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x1)
- This library has a special section for teens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x2)
- Teens need lots of sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x3)
- Count the teen numbers from thirteen to nineteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x4)
- Temperatures will be in the mid-teens tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x5)
- He started playing guitar in his early teens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x6)
- Don't confuse thirteen (13) with thirty (30). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/#x7)

### note

Usually plural: «in your teens», «the teens». A person is «a teen» or «a teenager». In maths, teen numbers are 13 to 19 (12 and 11 are not teen numbers because they don't end in «-teen»). «-teen» means ten plus: fourteen = 10 + 4.

### In the corpora

- [It isn't hate: teens want time with their own friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/16/)
- [Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/9/)
- [Bigger differences in strength and speed appear in the teens, when boys make much more testosterone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/6/)
- [The teens end in -nadtsyat: odyNAdtsyat 11, dvaNAdtsyat 12, trynAdtsyat 13, p'yatNAdtsyat 15, shistNAdtsyat 16.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teens» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.