tale suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

(obsolete) Number.
(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
(obsolete) Speech; language.
(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
(legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
(rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
(rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
(rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.

Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”
Don't tell tales!
the Canterbury Tales
the ignorant, [...] who measure by tale, and not by weight
And every shepherd tells his tale, / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
It was the jackal –Tabaqui, the Dish-licker– and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.

Partisiipin perfekti	taled
Imperfekti	taled
Partisiipin preesens	taling
Monikko	tales
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	tales

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