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1 tale
[teil]1) (a story: He told me the tale of his travels.) zgodba2) (an untrue story; a lie: He told me he had a lot of money, but that was just a tale.) pravljica* * *[téil]nounzgodba, povest, pripoved, pripovedka; bajka, pravljica; poročilo, vest, novica; izmislek, izmišljotina, lažna zgodba, laž; obsolete pogovor, pogovarjanje; opravljanje, obiranje; obsolete naštevanje; obračun; (skupno) številohis tale is out figuratively z njim je konecif all tales be true — če je vse res, kar se pripovedujethat tells its own tale — to že samo vse pove, stvar je jasna, vsak komentar k temu je odvečto tell (to carry, to bear, to bring) tales — brbljati, klepetati, čenčati; opravljati, obrekovati, ovajatito tell tales out of school figuratively pripovedovati zaupane skrivnosti, izklepetati; tožariti, ovajati -
2 tell
[tel]1) (to inform or give information to (a person) about (something): He told the whole story to John; He told John about it.) povedati2) (to order or command; to suggest or warn: I told him to go away.) reči3) (to say or express in words: to tell lies / the truth / a story.) govoriti4) (to distinguish; to see (a difference); to know or decide: Can you tell the difference between them?; I can't tell one from the other; You can tell if the meat is cooked by/from the colour.) prepoznati5) (to give away a secret: You mustn't tell or we'll get into trouble.) izklepetati6) (to be effective; to be seen to give (good) results: Good teaching will always tell.) poznati se•- teller- telling
- tellingly
- telltale
- I told you so
- tell off
- tell on
- tell tales
- tell the time
- there's no telling
- you never can tell* * *[tel]1.transitive verbpovedati, pripovedovati, reči; izreči, izraziti, izpovedati; izdati; (po)kazati (o uri); obvestiti, sporočiti, navesti, (ob)javiti, označiti; prikazati, razlagati, razjasniti, prepričevati, trditi; zapovedati, ukazati, naročiti; izmisliti; poznati, prepoznati, razlikovati, (raz)ločiti; parliament šteti (glasove)all told — (vzeto) v celem, v celoti, vse skupajtell me another! slang tega mi ne boš natvezel!I'll tell you the world American o tem sem prepričanto tell s.th. abroad — pripovedovati kaj okoli, raznašati kajto tell one's money American šteti svoj denarto tell one's beads religion moliti rožni venecto tell the news — naznaniti, povedati, objaviti novicoto tell the tale colloquially pripovedovati (povedati) žalostno zgodbo (ne da bi zbudili usmiljenje)to tell tales — zbrbljati, izklepetati; opravljati, obirati; spletkaritito tell the votes politics šteti glasovehe told him to go — rekel (ukazal) mu je, naj grenever tell me! — ne čvekaj mi! ne kvasi mi jih!this tells its own tale — to se razume samo po sebi, to je jasnowe were told to get up — rekli so nam, naj vstanemoyou're telling me! slang tega mi ni treba praviti!; komu pripovedujeto to?; kot, da jaz tega ne vem!;2.intransitive verbpripovedovati, govoriti, praviti; obvestiti, informirati ( about o); spoznati, vedeti (by po); imeti posledice, postati očiten, očitno se pokazati; colloquially izdati, ovaditi, zatožitihow can you tell? — kako morete to vedeti?to tell on ( —ali of) s.o. — izdati, zatožiti kogathat tells against you — to govori proti tebi; -
3 woe
[wəu]((a cause of) grief or misery: He has many woes; He told a tale of woe.) žalost- woeful- woefully
- woefulness
- woebegone* * *[wɔu]1.nounbol, žalost, nadloga, stiska, beda; obsolete gorjé, skrbi;2.interjectionjoj! gorjé!woe to you! — bodi preklet! gorje ti!woe is me! — joj meni!; gorje meni!woe betide you if... — gorje ti, če...woe to the vanquished! — gorje premaganim! -
4 yarn
I noun(wool, cotton etc spun into thread: knitting-yarn; a length of yarn.) prejaII noun(an old word for a story or tale: He told us interesting yarns about his travels.) zgodba* * *I [ja:n]nounpreja; (spreden) sukanec; nautical vrv; colloquially figuratively (neverjetna, izmišljena, razburljiva) zgodbato spin a yarn — pripovedovati razburljivo, grozljivo zgodbo; pretiravati v opisovanju kakega dogodkaII [ja:n]intransitive verb colloquially figuratively pripovedovati dolgo zgodbo; pripovedovati, govoriti, kramijati; transitive verb uporabiti prejo (npr. za tesnilo pri pipi)
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