different between told vs retold

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 *taljan? (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??ld/, /t??ld/
• (US) enPR: t?ld, IPA^(key): /to?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld
• Homophone: tolled

Verb

told

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell

Translations

Anagrams

• dolt

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/, [t??l?]
• Homophone: tolv

Noun

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• tolder

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

told

1. (transitive) to add, to splice

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• toljad

Verb

told

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol

References

Further reading

• told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

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

English

Verb

retold

1. simple past tense and past participle of retell

Anagrams

• Drolet, rodlet