tell
/tɛl/ verbo A1En español: decir, contar, recontar, platicar
- To determine the number, amount, or value of [something]. · All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
- To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.) · I can tell that you're thrilled.· You can tell you've struck a nerve when even the crowd stops laughing.
- To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.) · An expert can tell an original from a forgery.· Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
- To narrate, to recount. · I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
- To convey by speech; to say. · Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
- To instruct or inform. · Please tell me how to do it.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone. · Tell him to go away.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
Plural tell · He/she/it tells · Pasado told · Participio pasado told · Forma en -ing telling
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
- telling
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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“Do you tell me,” said the sergeant, “that the wedding ring was below the other?”
Nichols was in Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose to know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
“I saw you look at me to-day, Lizzy, when my aunt told us of the present report; and I know I appeared distressed; but don’t imagine it was from any silly cause.
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