teens
- noun
- /tiːnz/
:
los números entre 13 y 19
- And then the kids got into their teens and stood up to dad and said dude.
Examples
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And yet the ironic thing is that young drivers, especially teens, are fast becoming our biggest allies in this fight.
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To tease out the habits for teens, thought processes, decision making processes that you can use and test yourself.
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Actually the teens, it was in the teens per year.
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Now I have good numbers for how much the how much teens are using these devices and these platforms today.
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When I bought this car, I said, OK, it should go for mid teens to high teens in good condition.
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The average volatility index, the average VIX tends to run in the high teens, high teens.
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So this is in the teens that Bohr came up with, which were just a bunch of numerical rules for allowable orbits.
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During their teens, many young people experience significant changes in their interests and social circles.
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Parents often notice that their children's behavior can change dramatically once they reach their teens.
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In the teens, teenagers start to form their own identities and make more independent choices.
Surface Forms
Morphology
teens = teen (transparent) = teen + s
This is the regular plural of 'teen' used to refer collectively to the numbers 13–19; the morphological relation is direct.
Etymology
Teens for the numbers comes from the number part -teen, from an old word meaning 'ten', so thirteen is like 'three + ten' and the teens are the numbers 'thirteen' to 'nineteen'.
