Translation for 'told' from English to French

all told

au total {adv}

en résumé {adv}

au nombre de {adv}

en fin de compte {adv}

de façon générale {adv}

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Truth be told, ...

Pour être honnête ...

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to get told off

se faire chapitrer

to get told off [idiom]

se faire disputer

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Do as you're told!

Fais ce qu'on te demande !

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to be told off by sb.

se faire sonner par qn.

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He must do as he's told!

Il s'agit qu'il obéisse !

He told me a good one. [idiom] [joke]

Il m'en a raconté une bien bonne. [loc.]

I believe someone told me that ..

Je crois savoir que ... [+ind]

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to believe anything one is told

avaler des couleuvres [fam.] [être être trompé]

to do as one is told

filer droit [fam.] [se comporter comme ordonné ou attendu]

to do what one is told

s'exécuter

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No, Obelix! ... You cannot have the magic potion! I've told you a thousand times that you fell into the potion when you were little!

Non, Obélix ! ... Tu n'auras pas de potion magique ! Je t'ai dit mille fois que tu étais tombé dedans étant petit ! [citation]BDF

• After his release, Jawad told journalists that he was told he was going to be sent to Guantanamo.
• Shadow Stalker told Ellie, Ethan's wife about what happened. He told her that he and his teammates will stop Ethan.
• After they read it, Beason told them he wanted to take back an answer.
• In the TV series, some Andersen tales were each told in one episode, while others were told over several episodes. For a total of 31 storylines spanning 52 episodes.
• He told no one of the exchange, but when the prince was grown, an old man appeared to him in the woods and told him to tell his father to make good on his bargain.

• She told the head of the modeling agency that she was married and could not go to the Miss USA pageant.
• Khamba was stopped and told that his name was not in the list of the contestants.
• Through hosting events in which refugees told folktales, she produced the book "Timeless Tales: Folktales Told by Syrian Refugees", containing 21 folk stories.
• The victim had told some people she owned valuable property in London, but told others she was quite poor and was known to have meals at a soup kitchen.
• High-level Scientologists are told that body thetans are responsible for physical and mental ailments, and are told to telepathically exorcize them using Scientology auditing processes.

• In an interview, Mustafa Kamal told that the elections were not fair and told the whole process of the elections.
• During an October 30 special session of the Wrecking Board of Examiners, Harvey Gipson, of Gipson Trucking, told the board a man from Nate’s Landscaping told him to tear down 14567 Minock in Detroit.
• The Rev. Edward Young told the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1892 that Bulfinch told him he had wished to become an architect like his father.
• The plot is told through three different views. It starts off with a chapter narrated by Duko Vendija and it also ends with a chapter told by him.
• The girl told them whose statues were those but refused to say anything else.

• Express actual authority means an agent has been expressly told (i.e., explicitly told) they may act on behalf of a principal.
• Delaney testified that Robles told him the motive for the murders was because Hoffert told him that she could identify him to police.