Tell

Expressions using "Tell": as nearly as i can tell ♦ back tell ♦ can you tell me ..? ♦ can you tell me? ♦ cross tell ♦ don't tell anybody ♦ don't tell me tales! ♦ don't tell on me! ♦ don't tell smb.! ♦ first i must tell you ♦ forward tell ♦ i need not tell you that ♦ i'm going to tell you everything ♦ it needs no ghost to tell us ♦ lateral tell ♦ not to tell ♦ overlap tell ♦ pray tell me! ♦ relateral tell ♦ tell a fib ♦ tell a lie ♦ tell a long rigmarole ♦ tell a pack of lies ♦ tell a person his fortune ♦ tell a secret ♦ tell a story ♦ tell about ♦ tell abroad ♦ tell again ♦ tell against ♦ tell apart ♦ tell around ♦ tell briefly ♦ tell by looking ♦ Tell City ♦ tell el Amarna ♦ tell fibs ♦ tell fortune ♦ tell fortunes ♦ tell how it comes ♦ tell in detail ♦ tell it to the marines ♦ tell it to the marines! ♦ tell its own tale ♦ tell lamp ♦ tell lies ♦ tell lies about ♦ tell lies to ♦ tell me how ♦ tell me the instant ♦ tell me when ♦ tell me where ♦ tell me why ♦ tell not to come ♦ tell of smth. ♦ tell off ♦ tell on ♦ tell on smb. ♦ tell once for all ♦ tell one's beads ♦ tell over ♦ tell precisely ♦ tell smb. about smth. ♦ tell smb. one's honest opinion ♦ tell smb. one's mind ♦ tell smb. smth. ♦ tell smb. smth. straight out ♦ tell smb. tall stories ♦ tell smb. the honest truth ♦ tell smb. to do smth. ♦ tell smb.'s fortune ♦ tell smth. to smb. ♦ tell stories ♦ tell tale ♦ tell tales ♦ Tell that to the marines ♦ tell that to the marines! ♦ tell the answer ♦ tell the difference ♦ tell the news ♦ tell the tale ♦ tell the time ♦ tell the truth ♦ tell the unvarnished truth ♦ tell the world ♦ tell them apart ♦ tell troubles ♦ tell two things apart ♦ tell us another! ♦ there! what did i tell you? ♦ To tell no store of ♦ To tell of ♦ to tell off ♦ To tell on ♦ To tell tale of ♦ to tell the truth ♦ william tell ♦ you can never tell ♦ you cannot tell him from his brother ♦ you never can tell. Additional references.

Beginning with "Tell": tell-all, Tell-el-Amarna, tell-it-all, tell-nothing, tell-nothing-but-know-everything, tell-table, tell-tale, tell-tale, tell-tales, tell-tale-tit, tell-why.

Ending with "Tell": kiss-and-tell, re-tell.

Containing "Tell": you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-carol.

Afrikaans

vertel (narrate, relate), verhaal (account, history, narrate, narrative, relate, story, tale), sê (say), bepaal (affix, attach, command, confine, define, determine, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, qualify, restrict, secure, set, set conditions, stipulate). (various references)

Albanian

tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, infer, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell tales, yield), them (be good at, begin to play, begin to sing, break into a song, call, give voice to, go, impart, know, name, refer, say, speak, talk), shpjegoj (account for, clarify, construe, define, elucidate, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten, straighten out, take to pieces, unriddle), njoftoj (advertise, advertize, advise, announce, break, communicate, convey, cry, give out, inform, instruct, message, nark, notify, page, placard, post, report). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قص (clip, clipping, cut, narrate, recount, relate, report, scissor, shear, shearing, shorn, snip, styling), ‏قال (go, said, say, speak, state, talk, told, utter), ‏وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), ‏حكى (narrate, recount, relate, retrace, tale), ‏حسب (calculate, cast, cipher, compute, deem, figure, from, gather, in his element, number, on, pursuant to, rank, reason, reckon, score, tally), ‏تحدث (broadcast, converse, discourse, jaw, sing out, speak, talk, yarn), ‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tick), ‏عد (calculate, commit oneself, conceive, count, count smb., enumerate, enumeration, number, tally, think out), ‏خبر (acquaint, apprise, apprize, inform, news, report, short story, tip off, warn), ‏أفشى السر (be indiscreet, give away, prattle, spill), ‏روى يحكي (recount, relate), ‏روى (irrigate, narrate, quench, recite, recount, relate, report, retail, retrace, saturate, slake, sluice, story, water). (various references)

Basque

esan (say, say to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, trim), изпъквам (beetle, bulge, come across, excel, get out of ruck, jut out, project, protrude, relieve, show up, stand out, stand up against), имам значение (count, cut, import, matter, mean, signify, weigh), познавам (be familiar with, cognize, guess, know, recognize), показвам (demonstrate, denote, dial, disclose, display, evince, exhibit, give, indicate, manifest, present, proclaim, protrude, read, register, show, show around, signify, stick, trot, witness), поръчвам (ask, bespeak, order, write for), постигам ефект, лича (be apparent, be known, show), издавам тайна (babble, blab, repeat, spill the beans), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, touch, treat of), съобщавам (advertise, advertize, announce, apprise, apprize, communicate, convey, impart, inform, let know, notify, post, report), обаждам, обяснявам (account, explain, explicate, illuminate, impute, interpret, justify, refer, set forth, set out, translate, unravel), отгатвам (guess, hit, nose, psyche, riddle), отразявам се (be reflected, redound, reflect, reverberate), казвам (bid, call, convey, observe, put to, say, state, utter), разпознавам (discern, distinguish, know, pick out, recognize, spot, tell apart), разправям (recite, recount, retail), разказвам (narrate, pitch, recite, record, recount, relate, report, tell around), заповядвам (appoint, bid, command, direct, enjoin, instruct, ordain, require, rule the roost, send an order). (various references)

Catalan

dir (say). (various references)

Chinese 

陳 (a surname, arrange, exhibit, narrate, old, stale, to display, to explain, to state), 訴說 , 訴 (complain, sue), 知道 (Knew, know, knowing, known, telling, Told), 愬 (complain, sue), 吩咐 (command, instruct), 囑咐 (enjoin, exhort). (various references)

Cornish

leverel (to tell). (various references)

Czech

říci (say, speak). (various references)

Danish

sige (say), fortælle (narrate, relate). (various references)

Dutch

zeggen (say), opgeven (abandon, give up, lose, renounce, resign, say). (various references)

Esperanto

rakonti (narrate, relate), ordoni (command, order), komisii (entrust), diri (say). (various references)

Faeroese

skipa fyri (arrange, command, dictate, fix up, order, put in order, tidy), siga frá (acquaint, announce, inform, let know, narrate, relate), siga (express, say), lata (allow, cause, dedicate, deliver, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply), greiða frá (account for, explain, narrate, relate). (various references)

Farsi 

فهمیدن (Catch, Compass, Comprehend, Follow, Get, Grasp, Gripe, Induct, Intend, Learn, Realize, Savor, Savvy, See, Skill, Understand), فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Squeal, Tattle, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), فرق گذاردن , نقل کردن (Convey, Relate, Transcribe), گفتن (Bubble, Cite, Inform, Intimate, Observe, Rehearse, Relate, Say, Utter, Utterance), تشخیص دادن (Assess, Discern, Distinguish, Espy, Judge, Recognize), بیان کردن (Bubble, Express, Frame, Give, Impart, Represent, Say). (various references)

Finnish

sanoa (call, express, say, state), kertoa (describe, multiply, narrate, relate, report, state). (various references)

French

dire, raconter, enjoindre, charger. (various references)

Frisian

sizze (say), fertelle (narrate, relate), ferhelje (narrate, relate), befelje (be in command, command, order). (various references)

German

sagen (mean, put, sagas, say, speak, to say, to say (said, utter), erzählen (bandy, narrate, narrative, recount, relate, telling, to recount, to relate, to tell), berichten (cover, give an account, refer, relate, report, to refer, to relate, to report), befehlen (be in command, command, enjoin, give orders, order, send, summon, to command). (various references)

Greek 

διηγούμαι (narrate, recite, recount, relate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתנות (mourn, narrate, recount), לומר (put in, say, spell, state), לאמור (namely, say, speak, state, thus, to wit, viz.), להודיע (advise, announce, apprise, inform, instruct, make known, notice, notify, report), להורות (command, direct, instruct, show, teach), להכיר (ascertain, find out, know, make out, realize, recognize, spot, understand), להגיד (announce, declare, make known, narrate, say), להבחין (discern, discriminate, know, make out, notice, observe, perceive, recognize, spot, spy), לספר (narrate, recite, recount, relate). (various references)

Hungarian

mond (had, have, say, to have, to mind one's p's and q's, to pronounce, to say a few words, to snarl, to tell, to term, told), elmond (narrate, recite, recount, relate, set out, to recite, to recount, to relate, to represent, to unfold, unfold). (various references)

Icelandic

segja frá (narrate, relate), segja (narrate, relate, say). (various references)

Indonesian

mengadukan (denounce, give a report, report), menceritakan (narrate, recite, recount), membilangkan (say), berkabar (send news about oneself). (various references)

Inuktitut

unikkaaqtuq (to tell a story). (various references)

Irish

inis. (various references)

Italian

raccontare (narrate, recount, relate), dire (bid, mean, name, say, speak, talk, to tell), narrare (narrate, recount, relate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

語る (to recite, to talk, to tell), 申し渡す (to announce, to declare, to order, to tell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたる (to recite, to talk, to tell), じつをいえば (as a matter of fact, to tell the truth), じつのところ (as a matter of fact, to tell the truth), ものがたる (to indicate, to tell), もうしあげる (to say, to state, to tell), もうしわたす (to announce, to declare, to order, to tell), もうしでる (to come forward with information, to make an offer, to report to, to request, to submit, to suggest, to tell), もうしのべる (to say, to state, to tell), もうしきかせる (to talk to, to tell), いいだす (to break the ice, to propose, to speak, to start talking, to suggest, to tell), いいわたす (to announce, to order, to sentence, to tell), いいつける (to charge, to direct, to order, to tell, to tell on), いいつくす (to give a full account, to tell all), はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim), いいきかす (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warm), おっしゃる (to say, to speak, to talk, to tell), かたらう (to conspire with, to pledge, to recite, to talk, to tell), つく (comes on, to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to arrive at, to attach to, to attack, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to breathe, to catch fire, to disgorge, to follow, to haunt, to increase, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to possess, to reach, to settle in, to start, to strike, to study, to study with, to take, to tell, to thrust, to vomit), つげぐち (tell-tale), つたえる (to bequeath, to communicate, to convey, to impart, to propagate, to report, to teach, to tell, to transmit), ぶちまける (to confess, to tell frankly), うらなう (to choose, to fix, to forecast, to predict, to settle, to tell a fortune), うそをつく (to fib, to tell a lie), くちばしる (to blurt out, to speak, to tell), しかりとばす (to rebuke strongly, to tell off), きかせる (to inform, to read to, to sing for, to tell), なじる (to rebuke, to scold, to tell off), おれかえる (to refrain, to repeat, to tell again and again, to turn down, to turn up), いいきかせる (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warn). (various references)

Korean 

말하십시요 (speak). (various references)

Malay

mendusta (lie, tell a lie). (various references)

Manx

ginsh (confide). (various references)

Maya

ken (to tell). (various references)

Norwegian

si (say), fortelle (narrate, relate). (various references)

Occitan

contar. (various references)

Papiamen

conta (count, narrate, relate), bisa (say). (various references)

Pig Latin

elltay.(various references)

Polish

rozkazywać (command, order), powiedzieć (say), opowiadać (narrate, relate). (various references)

Portuguese

dizer (account, blurt, converse, guffaw, inform, recital, recite, report, say, speak, state, to tell, utter), narrar (describe, narrate, relate, state, weave), mandar (bid, boss, command, commit, consign, depute, direct, enjoin, have, impose, order, require, send, superintend, to send, to send out, transmit), contar (account, count, depend, narrate, number, numerate, reckon, relate, report, to count). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

dizer (to tell). (various references)

Romanian

spune (call, declare, denounce, explain, name, pass, pretend, pronounce, propose, put, recite, relate, remark, say, speak, speak to, state, utter), povesti (Herald, narrate, recite, relate, report, review), nara (narrate, recount, relate). (various references)

Romansch

quintar (to tell). (various references)

Russian 

сказать (quoth, say), говорить (mince, saith, say, speak, speak under correction, spoke, talk, talked, they say). (various references)

Scottish

innis (an island, declare, grazing field, island, meadow, narrate, relate, report). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

reći (say), pokazati (demonstrate, display, evince, flash, indicate, point, point out, produce, set forth, show, trot, trot out), kazati (say), ispričati (narrate, relate), govoriti (militate, say, speak, talk, tongue). (various references)

Shona

-udza (to tell). (various references)

Spanish

contar (calculate, check, count, counting, look to, narrate, number, pitch, reckon, recount, relate, retail, spin, yarn), decir (call, get in, go, let out, mention, observe, pass over, put, put in, read, recite, say, saying, speak, think, to say, voice, word). (various refere