Last Updated：2025/11/22

(usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong. / To cause visible strain to.

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tell on

Source Word

tell on

childish usually

Japanese Meaning

（主に子供が）他人の悪事を大人や権威者に告げ口する、または密告する。 / （文脈によっては）見た目に明らかな緊張やストレス、負担を示す。

Don't tell on me for taking the cookie from the jar.

瓶からクッキーを取ったことを誰にもチクらないで。

Sense（1）

My sister told on me when I didn't go to school.

Sense（2）

To cause visible strain to.

Years of drinking started to tell on his body.

tells on

（ present singular third-person ）

telling on

（ participle present ）

told on

（ participle past ）

told on

（ past ）