What is the meaning of -te?

Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never

Forms abstract nouns from adjectives.

Alternative form of -th (abstract nominal suffix)

Alternative form of -the (abstract nominal suffix)

Alternative form of -the (ordinal suffix)

Alternative form of -ty

Alternative form of -de used to form the first and third person singular preterite indicative of certain class I weak verbs

appended to an adjective, making a feminine noun which refers to the size or quality referred to by the adjective, cognate to -th.

appended to the stem of a verb, yields a feminine noun which refers to the object of such a verb.

See ge- -te.

Alternative form of -de (forms the singular of the past tense of weak verbs)

forms the first-person and third-person singular of the past tense and past subjunctive of weak verbs and some irregular verbs

forms nouns from adjectives

  1. Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.

    Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.

    Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.

    Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.

    slender form of -ta

    slender form of -ta

    Rōmaji transcription of

    masculine vocative singular of -tus

    Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th

    Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.

    Alternative form of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in a unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which end in -er in the present tense)

    Alternative form of -da (locative suffix)

    Source: wiktionary.org