English-Dutch translations for fairy tale

• sprookje
  Zo luidt het sprookje; de werkelijkheid ziet er anders uit. This is the fairy tale; the reality is somewhat different.
  Wij beleven misschien een sprookje, maar in elk sprookje komen ook crisismomenten, tranen en angst voor. We are perhaps experiencing a fairy tale, but all fairy tales have their crises, their tears, their moments of fear.
  We mogen daarbij echter niet vergeten dat wonderen alleen in sprookjes gebeuren. We must not forget, however that miracles happen only in fairy tales.

Definition of fairy tale

• A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters
• A story presented as true that is not believable

Examples

• I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
• Hes telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.

Related words

• fairy tale character
• fairy tale figure
• fairytale
• fairy-tale
• fairytale figure
• fairytale film
• fairytale movie
• book of fairytales