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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishtale, fromOld Englishtalu(“tale, series, calculation”), fromProto-West Germanic*talu, fromProto-Germanic*talō(“calculation, number”), fromProto-Indo-European*del-(“to reckon, count”).

Cognate withWest Frisiantaal(“speech, language”),Dutchtaal(“language, speech”),GermanZahl(“number, figure”),Danishtale(“speech”),Icelandictala(“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”),Latindolus(“guile, deceit, fraud”),Ancient Greekδόλος(dólos,“wile, bait”),Albanianndjell(“to lure”),Northern Kurdishtil(“finger”),Old Armenianտող(toł,“row”). Related totell,talk.

Noun

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tale (pluraltales)

  1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history;story.
    the CanterburyTales
    • 1631,John Milton,L'Allegro:
      And every shepherd tells histale
      Under the hawthorn in the dale.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page214:
      But can you guess what there was in the box? Why, it was a calf's tail, and if the calf's tail had been longer thistale would have been longer too.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
      Barla Von: What's this? One of the Earth-clan? Ah, a very famous one, yes? You are the one called Shepard.
      Barla Von: Thetale of how you survived the great tragedy on Akuze is truly remarkable. I am amazed each time I hear it.
  2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
    • 1594,Richard Hooker,Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4:
      the ignorant,[…] who measure bytale, and not by weight
    • 1602,Richard Carew,Survey of Cornwall:
      In packing, they keep a justtale of the number that every hogshead containeth ...
    • 1843,Thomas Carlyle,Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5,Twelfth Century:
      They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere stricttale and measure
  3. (slang) Thefraudulentopportunity presented by aconfidence man to themark orvictim.
  4. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; arumour; areport, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece ofgossip orslander; alie.
    Don't telltales!
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want thetale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”
  5. (obsolete)Number;tally;quota.
    • 1611,King James Version, Exodus 5:8:
      And thetale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
    • 1697,John Dryden,The Works of Virgil, Pastoral III:
      Both number twice a day the milky dams
      And once she takes thetale of all the lambs.
    • 1890, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume 1, page237:
      To appease the angry god, two hundred children of the noblest families were picked out for sacrifice, and thetale of victims was swelled by not less than three hundred more who volunteered to die for the fatherland.
  6. (obsolete)Account;estimation;regard;heed.
  7. (obsolete)Speech;language.
  8. (obsolete) A speech; astatement;talk;conversation;discourse.
  9. (law, obsolete) A count;declaration.
  10. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as anaggregate;sum.
  11. (rare or archaic) Areport of any matter; arelation; aversion.
    • 1605,Francis Bacon,Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, Volume I, Chapter IX:
      […] birds[…] are aptest by their voice to telltales what they find; and likewise by the motion of their flight to express the same.
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Translations
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type of story

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishtalen, fromOld Englishtalian(“to count, calculate, reckon”), fromProto-West Germanic*talōn, fromProto-Germanic*talōną(“to count”), fromProto-Indo-European*del-(“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”).

Cognate withDutchtalen(“to long, care”),Germanzahlen(“to pay”),Swedishtala(“to speak, talk”),Icelandictala(“to talk”).

Verb

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tale (third-person singular simple presenttales,present participletaling,simple past and past participletaled)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Tospeak;discourse;tell tales.
  2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Toreckon;consider (someone) to have something.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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tale (pluraltales)

  1. Alternative form oftael

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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tale

  1. plural oftaal

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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FromArabicطَالِع(ṭāliʕ).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tɑːˈle(h)]
  • Hyphenation:ta‧le
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Noun

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tale (usuallyuncountable, definite accusativetaleyi)

  1. fate,destiny,lot
    Synonyms:qismət,müqəddərat,qədər
    Onların sonrakitaleyiməlum deyil. ―Their subsequentfate is unknown.
  2. fortune(destiny, especially favorable)
    Synonyms:bəxt,iqbal,nəsib
  3. futuredestiny
    Synonyms:gələcək,müqəddərat

Declension

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Declension oftale
singularplural
nominativetaletalelər
definite accusativetaleyitaleləri
dativetaleyətalelərə
locativetaledətalelərdə
ablativetaledəntalelərdən
definite genitivetaleyintalelərin
Possessive forms oftale
nominative
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimtalelərim
sənin(“your”)taleyintalelərin
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyitaleləri
bizim(“our”)taleyimiztalelərimiz
sizin(“your”)taleyiniztaleləriniz
onların(“their”)taleyi ortaleləritaleləri
accusative
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimitalelərimi
sənin(“your”)taleyinitalelərini
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyinitalelərini
bizim(“our”)taleyimizitalelərimizi
sizin(“your”)taleyinizitalelərinizi
onların(“their”)taleyini ortalelərinitalelərini
dative
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimətalelərimə
sənin(“your”)taleyinətalelərinə
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyinətalelərinə
bizim(“our”)taleyimizətalelərimizə
sizin(“your”)taleyinizətalelərinizə
onların(“their”)taleyinə ortalelərinətalelərinə
locative
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimdətalelərimdə
sənin(“your”)taleyindətalelərində
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyindətalelərində
bizim(“our”)taleyimizdətalelərimizdə
sizin(“your”)taleyinizdətalelərinizdə
onların(“their”)taleyində ortalelərindətalelərində
ablative
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimdəntalelərimdən
sənin(“your”)taleyindəntalelərindən
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyindəntalelərindən
bizim(“our”)taleyimizdəntalelərimizdən
sizin(“your”)taleyinizdəntalelərinizdən
onların(“their”)taleyindən ortalelərindəntalelərindən
genitive
singularplural
mənim(“my”)taleyimintalelərimin
sənin(“your”)taleyinintalelərinin
onun(“his/her/its”)taleyinintalelərinin
bizim(“our”)taleyimizintalelərimizin
sizin(“your”)taleyinizintalelərinizin
onların(“their”)taleyinin ortalelərinintalelərinin

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “tale” inObastan.com.

Danish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsetala.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tale c (singular definitetalen,plural indefinitetaler)

  1. speech,talk,address,discourse

Inflection

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Declension oftale
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativetaletalentalertalerne
genitivetalestalenstalerstalernes

Verb

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tale (imperativetal,infinitiveattale,present tensetaler,past tensetalte,perfect tensehartalt)

  1. to make a speech
  2. tospeak,talk

Conjugation

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Conjugation oftale
activepassive
presenttalertales
pasttaltetaltes
infinitivetaletales
imperativetal—
participle
presenttalende
pasttalt
(auxiliary verbhave)
gerundtalen

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaː.lə/
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  • Hyphenation:ta‧le

Noun

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tale f (pluraltalen,diminutivetaaltje n)

  1. Obsolete form oftaal.

French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tale

  1. inflection oftaler:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Ido

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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tale

  1. hence

Italian

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Etymology

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FromLatintālis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈta.le/
  • Rhymes:-ale
  • Hyphenation:tà‧le

Determiner

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tale (pluraltali)

  1. such

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tāle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocativeneutersingular oftālis

Noun

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tāle

  1. vocativesingular oftālus

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Limburgish

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Noun

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tale

  1. plural oftaal

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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FromOld Dutch*tala, fromProto-West Germanic*talu, fromProto-Germanic*talō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tāle f

  1. spoken orwrittenwords, that which someonesays
  2. language

Inflection

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishtalu, fromProto-West Germanic*talu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːl(ə)/,/ˈtal(ə)/

Noun

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tale (pluraltales)

  1. personalnarrative,account

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Northern Kurdish

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Noun

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tale ?

  1. happiness

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsetala.

Noun

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tale m (definite singulartalen,indefinite pluraltaler,definite pluraltalene)

  1. speech,talk,address,discourse

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Verb

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tale (imperativetal,present tensetaler,passivetales,simple pasttalte,past participletalt,present participletalende)

  1. to make aspeech
  2. tospeak,talk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsetala.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tale m (definite singulartalen,indefinite pluraltalar,definite pluraltalane)
tale f (definite singulartala,indefinite pluraltaler,definite pluraltalene)

  1. speech
  2. aspeech,talk,discourse, anaddress

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Verb

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tale (present tensetalar ortaler,past tensetala ortalte,past participletala ortalt,passive infinitivetalast,present participletalande,imperativetal)

  1. alternative form oftala (talaissplit-infinitive and/ora-infinitive verb form)

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Old English

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Noun

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tale

  1. inflection oftalu:
    1. nominativeplural
    2. accusativesingular/plural
    3. genitive/dativesingular

Portuguese

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Verb

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tale

  1. inflection oftalar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Romanian

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Pronoun

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tale

  1. feminineplural oftău
    Fiiceletaleîmispuneaudesprecasavoastrănouă.
    Your daughters were telling me about your new house.
  2. neuterplural oftău

Slovene

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Pronoun

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tale

  1. (proximal demonstrative)this,this one

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtale/[ˈt̪a.le]
  • Rhymes:-ale
  • Syllabification:ta‧le

Verb

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tale

  1. inflection oftalar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tale

  1. tocarryweight

Conjugation

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Conjugation oftale
singularplural
inclusiveexclusive
1st persontotalefotalemitale
2nd personnotalenitale
3rd
person		masculineotaleitale
yotale(archaic)
femininemotale
neuteritale

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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