different between told vs tells
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 *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
- 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)
- 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
- (transitive) to add, to splice
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
tol (“to push”) +? -d (personal suffix)
Alternative forms
- toljad
Verb
told
- 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)
- (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole
Verb
told
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole
told From the web:
- what told you crossword
- what told meaning
tells
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?lz/
Verb
tells
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tell
Noun
tells
- plural of tell
Anagrams
- Stell, stell
tells From the web:
- what tells a ribosome how to assemble a protein
- what tells your cells what to do
- what tells the hardware what to do and how to do it
- what tells the story of a chemical reaction
- what tells the heart to beat
- what tells the ac compressor to turn on
- what tells you population density
- what tells the ribosome to start
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