English-Finnish translations for tale

• tarina
  Tähän loppuu tarina mietinnöstäni. Here ends the tale of my report.
  Tämä surullinen tarina kertoo komission väärinkäytöksistä. It is a sorry tale of Commission misdemeanour.
  laatija. - (DE) Arvoisa puhemies, Israelin kansan historia on loputon tarina karkotuksista. draftsman. - (DE) Mr President, the history of the people of Israel is an endless tale of expulsions.
• kertomus
• satu
  Tämä on satu, todellisuus on jokseenkin toisenlainen. This is the fairy tale; the reality is somewhat different.
  Tässä mietinnössä kerrottu satu ei vakuuttaisi edes lasta siitä, että Yhdysvallat on ainoa valtio, joka tukee lentoyhtiöitään. The fairy tale told in this report would not even convince a child that the United States is the only country to subsidise its airlines.
• taru

Definition of tale

• An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie
• A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story
• A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration
• The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim
• Account; estimation; regard; heed
• A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse
• A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum
• To speak; discourse; tell tales

Examples

• Dont tell tales!
• the Canterbury Tales

Related words

• stalemate
• talent
• talented
• untalented
• fairytale
• tales
• catalepsy
• cataleptic
• stale