taler

See also: taléř, Taler, tåler, and Täler

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale +‎ -er.

Noun

taler (plural talers)

1. (archaic) A talker; a teller
   • 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:

     Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.

   • 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:

     She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].

Etymology 2

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar and tolar.

Alternative forms

• thaler

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)

Noun

taler (plural talers or taler)

2. (historical) A Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.
   • 1927 January 2, Caroline V. Kerr, “GRAPHIC ARTISTS FLOOD THE MARKET IN BERLIN; […]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2025:

     The atmosphere immediately grew tense, as a number of these prints had not been seen in the art market since 1850, at the time when August II of Saxony was buying in these treasures for his Dresden cabinet at prices ranging from 30 to 50 German taler (about 75 cents in our money).

Translations

former currency — see thaler

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, telar

Cebuano

Etymology

From the reverse spelling of the second syllable of bilat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ler

Noun

taler

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina

Danish

Etymology 1

From tale (“to speak”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

Noun

taler c (singular definite taleren, plural indefinite talere)

1. speaker

Inflection

Declension of taler

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	taler	taleren	talere	talerne
genitive	talers	talerens	taleres	talernes

Etymology 2

See tale (“speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

Noun

taler c

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

See tale (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːˀlɐ]

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

French

Etymology 1

From German Taler, (older) Thaler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.lɛʁ/

Noun

taler m (plural talers)

1. taler (currency)

Etymology 2

From Frankish *tālōn (“to tear away, rip off”), via Latin, compare Spanish talar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (“persecution, deceit”). Cognate with Old High German zâlôn (“to root up, remove”), Old English tǣl (“reproof, calumny, mockery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.le/

Verb

taler

1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit)

Conjugation

Conjugation of taler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	taler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	talant /ta.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		talé /ta.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tale /tal/	tales /tal/	tale /tal/	talons /ta.lɔ̃/	talez /ta.le/	talent /tal/
	imperfect	talais /ta.lɛ/	talais /ta.lɛ/	talait /ta.lɛ/	talions /ta.ljɔ̃/	taliez /ta.lje/	talaient /ta.lɛ/
	past historic2	talai /ta.le/	talas /ta.la/	tala /ta.la/	talâmes /ta.lam/	talâtes /ta.lat/	talèrent /ta.lɛʁ/
	future	talerai /tal.ʁe/	taleras /tal.ʁa/	talera /tal.ʁa/	talerons /tal.ʁɔ̃/	talerez /tal.ʁe/	taleront /tal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	talerais /tal.ʁɛ/	talerais /tal.ʁɛ/	talerait /tal.ʁɛ/	talerions /ta.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	taleriez /ta.lə.ʁje/	taleraient /tal.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tale /tal/	tales /tal/	tale /tal/	talions /ta.ljɔ̃/	taliez /ta.lje/	talent /tal/
	imperfect2	talasse /ta.las/	talasses /ta.las/	talât /ta.la/	talassions /ta.la.sjɔ̃/	talassiez /ta.la.sje/	talassent /ta.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tale /tal/	—	talons /ta.lɔ̃/	talez /ta.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “taler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tout à l'heure.

Adverb

taler

1. later

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From tale +‎ -er.

Noun

taler m (definite singular taleren, indefinite plural talere, definite plural talerne)

1. a speaker (person who speaks, or who makes a speech)

Derived terms

• buktaler
• høyttaler

See also

• talar (Nynorsk)

References

• “taler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology 2

Noun

taler m

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• talar (of both)

Noun

taler m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of tale

Verb

taler

1. present of tala
2. present of tale

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Taler.

Noun

taler m (plural taleri)

1. thaler

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	taler	talerul	taleri	talerii
genitive-dative	taler	talerului	taleri	talerilor
vocative	talerule		talerilor

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtalɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːlɛr/, /ˈtalɛr/

Verb

taler

1. (literary) subjunctive impersonal of talu
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of talu

Mutation

Mutated forms of taler

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taler	daler	nhaler	thaler

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.