tell

söylemek, anlatmak

Konuşarak veya yazarak birine bilgi aktarmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To give someone information by speaking or writing.

• Tell me your name.
• She told us a funny story.
• Did he tell you what happened?

Nasıl kullanılır: tell someone something (Please tell me the answer.); tell someone that… (He told me that the shop was closed.); tell someone about something (She told us about her trip.)

Eş anlamlılar: inform

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: tell someone something, tell the truth, tell a story

söylemek, emretmek

Birine bir şeyi yapması gerektiğini söylemek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To say that someone must do something.

• Tell him to wait.
• My teacher told me to sit down.
• Who told you to open that door?

Nasıl kullanılır: tell someone to do something (She told us to leave.); tell someone not to do something (Dad told me not to touch the pan.)

Eş anlamlılar: order, instruct, direct

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: tell someone to, tell someone not

şikâyet etmek, ispiyonlamak

Birinin kötü davranışını, onu cezalandırabilecek birine bildirmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To report someone’s bad behavior to a person who can punish them.

• Please do not tell!
• He told on his sister for breaking the window.
• If you cheat again, I will tell the teacher.

Nasıl kullanılır: tell on someone (He threatened to tell on us.)

Eş anlamlılar: report, inform

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: tell on someone, tell the teacher

belirlemek, hesaplamak

Bir sayıyı, miktarı veya saati hesaplayıp bulmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To work out a number, an amount, or the time.

• Can you tell the time?
• She learned to tell time on an old clock.
• All told, we collected two hundred pounds.

Eş anlamlılar: determine, count

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: tell the time, tell time, all told

doğrudan anlatmak

Hikâyede bilgileri olaylar veya betimlemelerle sezdirmek yerine açıkça anlatmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To state facts directly in a story instead of letting actions or descriptions make them clear.

• This paragraph tells the reader that Anna is lonely.
• The narrator tells us how the brothers feel.
• Try showing his anger instead of telling the reader about it.

Eş anlamlılar: explain, state

Zıt anlamlılar: show

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: tell the reader, tell rather than show