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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
telle
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of tellen
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
telle
- feminine singular of tel
Galician
Verb
telle
- inflection of tellar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.
Verb
telle (imperative tell, present tense teller, passive telles, simple past talte or tellet or telte, past participle talt or tellet or telt, present participle tellende)
- to count
Derived terms
References
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian tella, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan.
Pronunciation
Verb
telle
- to count, to enumerate
- to determine the number of
- to count, to matter, to be of significance
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “telle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011