told
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təʊld/, /tɔʊld/
- (US) enPR: tōld, IPA(key): /toʊld/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊld
- Homophone: tolled
VerbEdit
told
- simple past tense and past participle of tell
- A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.
TranslationsEdit
simple past tense
past participle
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of told
common gender |
Singular | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | told | tolden |
genitive | tolds | toldens |
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “told” in Den Danske Ordbog
- told on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Possibly from the verb tol + -d (frequentative suffix).[1]
VerbEdit
told
- (transitive) to add, to splice
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of told
Derived termsEdit
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2Edit
tol (“to push”) + -d (personal suffix)
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
told
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
ParticipleEdit
told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)
- (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole
VerbEdit
told