tale
/teɪl/
US pronunciation
American sound/teɪl/
tale
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> tale
Myanmar meaning
(n) ပုံပြင်
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၁။ (က) ပုံပြင်။ ဇာတ်လမ်း။ ဇာတ်ကြောင်း။ Chaucer's ‘Canterbury Tales’ ❍ tales of adventure ❍ The film is a hilarious tale of a family picnic that goes badly wrong. See also FAIRY TALE (ခ) အဖြစ်။ ဖြစ်စဉ်။ ဖြစ်ပုံ။ He told me the tale of how he escaped from prison.
၂။ ဇာတ်လမ်း၊ သတင်း (သို့) ညာလုံးလှိမ့်လုံး။ I've heard some odd tales about her.
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story, account, fiction, romance, anecdote, legend, saga, relation, fable, yarn, parable, narrative, accounted, add up, adding up, canard, chestnut, clothesline, cock-and-bull story, count heads, count noses, count off, count one by one, defamation, detraction, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, figure out, folk tale, gossip, keep score, keep tabs, lie, made-up story, mark down, marked down, marking down, misrepresentation, myth, narration, novel, number, prevarication, report, rigmarole, rumor, run into, run to, scandal, short story, slander, spiel, summing, take account of, tall story, tally, tell, tick off, ticked off, tote up, untruism, untruth, write down
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