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tale:
- histoire; conte; fable; compte-rendu; fiction; exposé; légende; rapport; mythe; tradition
Wiktionary:
- tale → conte, baratin, histoire, relation, récit
- tale → narration, récit, conte, histoire

English

Detailed Translations for tales from English to French

tale:

tale [the ~] noun

the tale (story; narration; legend; myth)
l'histoire; le conte; la fable; le compte-rendu; la fiction; l'exposé; la légende; le rapport; le mythe; la tradition
- histoire [la ~] noun
- conte [le ~] noun
- fable [la ~] noun
- compte-rendu [le ~] noun
- fiction [la ~] noun
- exposé [le ~] noun
- légende [la ~] noun
- rapport [le ~] noun
- mythe [le ~] noun
- tradition [la ~] noun

Translation Matrix for tale:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
compte-rendu	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	analysis; appraisal; assessment; book review; criticism; critique; discussion; record; report; review; survey
conte	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	fable; fairytale; story; tradition
exposé	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	account; angle; aspect; attitude; city plan; commentary; conception; declamation; delivery; dogma; elucidation; essay; floor-plan; foreword; groundplan; idea; interpretation; introduction; introductory remarks; lecture; map; notion; opinion; outlook; paper; perspective; plan; point of view; preamble; preface; project; prologue; reading; religious doctrine; report; site plan; sketch of the situation; stand; street map; synopses; tenet; town-map; turn to read; version; view; vision; way of thinking
fable	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	delusion; fable; fairytale; fib; fiction; old wive's tale; story
fiction	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	delusion; fable; fabrication; fairytale; fantasy; fib; fiction; figment of the imagination; illusion; imagination; old wive's tale; phantasy; pipe dream; story
histoire	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	event; happening; history; incident
légende	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	caption; caption bar; caption text; inscription; label; legend; marginal note; myth; title bar; tradition
mythe	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	legend; myth; tradition
rapport	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	account; agreement; alliance; amorous adventure; announcing; association; band; binding; bond; commentary; connection; courtship; giving notice of; intercourse; junction; league; liaison; link; love affair; minutes; pact; proclaiming; record; relation; relationship; report; romance; romanticism; survey; thickness; union; wooing
tradition	legend; myth; narration; story; tale	custom; habit; tradition
-	fib; narration; narrative; story; taradiddle; tarradiddle
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
exposé		clarified; cleared up; enlightened; explained; illuminated; illustrated; lit; made lighter; opened; opened up; unlocked

Related Words for "tale":

tales

Synonyms for "tale":

narrative; narration; story; message; content; subject matter; substance
fib; tarradiddle; taradiddle; lie; prevarication

Related Definitions for "tale":

a trivial lie¹
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program¹

Wiktionary Translations for tale:

tale

noun

type of story
- tale → conte

tale

noun

rhétorique|fr (familier, fr) bavardage utilisé pour duper ses auditeurs ou ses clients.
- baratin → fib; tale
Récit d’aventures imaginaires.
- conte → story; tale; fairy tale
Récit, aventure, conte
- histoire → story; account; tale; fairy tale
Récit
- relation → narrative; story; tale; account
relation, narration, orale ou écrite, d’un événement.
- récit → narrative; story; tale; account

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• tale	→ narration; récit; conte	↔ vertelling — een verhaal dat bedoeld is om verteld te worden
• tale	→ récit	↔ Erzählung — Darstellung eines Ereignisses, Vorkommnisses
• tale	→ histoire; conte	↔ Geschichte — eine mündliche oder schriftliche Erzählung oder Überlieferung

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