told

English

Alternative forms

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 *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊld/, [ˈtʰɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ˈtʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
  • (US) enPR: tōld, IPA(key): /toʊld/
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  • (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /tɐʉld/, [tʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
  • Rhymes: -əʊld
  • Homophone: tolled

Verb

told

  1. simple past tense and past participle of tell
    A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
  • Homophone: tolv

Noun

told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)

  1. duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

Declension
Declension of told
common
gender		 Singular
indefinite definite
nominative told tolden
genitive tolds toldens

Derived terms
  • tolder

Further reading

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtold]
  • Homophone: toldd
  • Rhymes: -old

Etymology 1

Possibly from the verb tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (frequentative suffix).[1]

Verb

told

  1. (transitive) to add, to splice
Conjugation
conjugation of told
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal		 3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal		 3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. toldok toldasz told toldunk toldotok toldanak
Def. toldom toldod toldja toldjuk toldjátok toldják
2nd-p. o. toldalak ―
Past Indef. toldottam toldottál toldott toldottunk toldottatok toldottak
Def. toldottam toldottad toldotta toldottuk toldottátok toldották
2nd-p. o. toldottalak ―
Condi­tional
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. toldanék toldanál toldana toldanánk toldanátok toldanának
Def. toldanám toldanád toldaná toldanánk
(or toldanók)		 toldanátok toldanák
2nd-p. o. toldanálak ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. toldjak toldj or
toldjál		 toldjon toldjunk toldjatok toldjanak
Def. toldjam toldd or
toldjad		 toldja toldjuk toldjátok toldják
2nd-p. o. toldjalak ―
Infinitive toldani toldanom toldanod toldania toldanunk toldanotok toldaniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms		 Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
toldás toldó toldott toldandó toldva toldhat
Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • hozzátold
  • kitold
  • megtold

Etymology 2

tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (personal suffix)

Alternative forms
  • toljad

Verb

told

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol

References
  1. told in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading
  • told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)

  1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole

Verb

told

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole

Yola

Verb

told

  1. Alternative form of tolth
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Fho told thee?
      Who told thee?

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 40
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