Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal:
Översättning
Substantiv
1.efsane
2.masal

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (obsolete) Number.
  2. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  3. (obsolete) Speech; language.
  4. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  5. (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  6. (rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  7. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  8. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  9. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
  10. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  11. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  12. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.

Verb

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  2. (dialectal chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Exempel

  • Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
  • “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”
  • Don't tell tales!
  • the Canterbury Tales
  • the ignorant, [...] who measure by tale, and not by weight
  • And every shepherd tells his tale, / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
  • In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
  • They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
  • It was the jackal –Tabaqui, the Dish-licker– and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticiptaled
Imperfekttaled
Presensparticiptaling
Pluraltales
Tredje person singular indicativ presenstales

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