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telja

telja

Faroese

Verb

telja ‎(third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)

  1. to count
  2. to tell

Conjugation

Synonyms

See also

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʰɛlja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlja

Verb

telja ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative taldi, supine talið)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to count
    Hún kann að telja upp að tíu á japönsku.‎
    She can count to ten in Japanese.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to believe, think syn.

Conjugation

teljast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að teljast
supine
(sagnbót) 		talist
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		teljandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég telst við teljumst present
(nútíð) 		ég teljist við teljumst
þú telst þið teljist þú teljist þið teljist
hann, hún, það telst þeir, þær, þau teljast hann, hún, það teljist þeir, þær, þau teljist
past
(þátíð) 		ég taldist við töldumst past
(þátíð) 		ég teldist við teldumst
þú taldist þið töldust þú teldist þið teldust
hann, hún, það taldist þeir, þær, þau töldust hann, hún, það teldist þeir, þær, þau teldust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		telst (þú) telist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
telstu telisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Alternative forms

Verb

telja

  1. to count
Conjugation
    Conjugation of telja in Nynorsk
Infinitive telja
Present

tel
Past

talde [talte]
Past participle

talt

Etymology 2

May be comparable with Icelandic tölva and Faroese telda.

Noun

telja

  1. computer (only Høgnorsk)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *taljaną ‎(“to count, tell”). Cognate with Old English tellan, Old Frisian tella, Old Saxon tellian, Old High German zellen.

Verb

telja ‎(singular past indicative talði, plural past indicative tǫlðu, past participle talaðr)

  1. to count, number
  2. to tell, say
  3. to reckon, consider

Conjugation

Conjugation of telja — mediopassive (weak class 1)
infinitive teljask
present participle teljandisk
past participle telzk
indicative present past
1st-person singular teljumk tǫlðumk
2nd-person singular telsk talðisk
3rd-person singular telsk talðisk
1st-person plural teljumsk tǫlðumsk
2nd-person plural telizk tǫlðuzk
3rd-person plural teljask tǫlðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular teljumk telðumk
2nd-person singular telisk telðisk
3rd-person singular telisk telðisk
1st-person plural telimsk telðimsk
2nd-person plural telizk telðizk
3rd-person plural telisk telðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular telask
1st-person plural teljumsk
2nd-person plural telizk

Descendants

References

  • telja in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

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