told

English

Alternative forms

• tol'

Etymology

From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təʊld/, /tɔʊld/
• (US) enPR: tōld, IPA^(key): /toʊld/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊld
• Homophone: tolled

Verb

told

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell

   A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.

Translations

simple past tense

• Danish: fortalte
• Dutch: vertelde (nl), vertelden (nl)
• French: a dit (fr)
• German: sagte (de)
• Hebrew: לספר‎

• Norwegian: fortalte (no)
• Portuguese: disse (pt)
• Russian: сказа́л (ru) (skazál)
• Spanish: dijo (es)

past participle

• Danish: fortalt
• Dutch: verteld (nl)
• French: dit (fr)
• German: gesagt (de)

• Portuguese: dito (pt)
• Russian: сказа́вший (ru) (skazávšij)
• Spanish: dicho (es)

Anagrams

• dolt

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
• Homophone: tolv

Noun

told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)

1. duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

Declension

Declension of told

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	told	tolden
genitive	tolds	toldens

Derived terms

• tolder

Further reading

• “told” in Den Danske Ordbog
• told on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtold]
• Homophone: toldd
• Rhymes: -old

Etymology 1

Possibly from the verb tol +‎ -d (frequentative suffix).

Verb

told

1. (transitive) to add, to splice

Conjugation

conjugation of told

			1st person sg	2nd person sg informal	3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person pl informal	3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	toldok	toldasz	told	toldunk	toldotok	toldanak
		Def.	toldom	toldod	toldja	toldjuk	toldjátok	toldják
		2nd-p. o.	toldalak	―
	Past	Indef.	toldottam	toldottál	toldott	toldottunk	toldottatok	toldottak
		Def.	toldottam	toldottad	toldotta	toldottuk	toldottátok	toldották
		2nd-p. o.	toldottalak	―
Condi­tional mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	toldanék	toldanál	toldana	toldanánk	toldanátok	toldanának
		Def.	toldanám	toldanád	toldaná	toldanánk	toldanátok	toldanák
		2nd-p. o.	toldanálak	―
Sub­junc­tive mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	toldjak	toldj or toldjál	toldjon	toldjunk	toldjatok	toldjanak
		Def.	toldjam	toldd or toldjad	toldja	toldjuk	toldjátok	toldják
		2nd-p. o.	toldjalak	―
Infinitive	toldani		toldanom	toldanod	toldania	toldanunk	toldanotok	toldaniuk
Other nonfinite verb forms			Verbal noun	Present participle	Past participle	Future part.	Adverbial part.	Potential
			toldás	toldó	toldott	toldandó	toldva	toldhat

Derived terms

• tódít
• tódul
• toldalék
• toldás
• toldoz

 

(With verbal prefixes):

• hozzátold
• kitold
• megtold

Etymology 2

tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (personal suffix)

Alternative forms

• toljad

Verb

told

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol

Further reading

• told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole

Verb

told

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole