0 to inform or give information to (a person) about (something) -- vyprávět
1 to order or command; to suggest or warn -- nařídit; žádat; navrhnout
I told him to go away.
2 to say or express in words -- říkat; vykládat
He wants to tell us a story.
3 to distinguish; to see (a difference); to know or decide -- rozeznat, (roz)poznat
Can you tell the difference between them?
I can’t tell one from the other
4 to give away a secret -- vyžvanit
You mustn’t tell or we’ll get into trouble.
5 to be effective; to be seen to give (good) results -- poznat se
Good teaching will always tell.
He told the story of a young clergyman being rebuffed by a belligerently irreligious farmer.
She told a story about a beautiful organ in a church.
He tells her how the book ends, "to save her the trouble of wading through it," as he says.
In the bad, old days, epistemology told us the terms in which to explain everything.
The child tells her imaginary baby two stories of empire, in quick succession.
The manly man 'talks straight', tells it only as it is, and is keen to produce an art which has no ostensible aesthetic purpose.
The difference is that the one tells of what has happened, the other of the kinds of things that might happen.
Eyewitnesses may fail to distinguish between memories of what they actually saw and what they have subsequently been told (or read) about the same event.
