I saw one, a mermaid, when I was a primary schooler. But it wasn't that sort of fairy-tale atmosphere of a story.
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Fairy-tale
Synonyms for "fairy-tale" (1 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
Translations
17 translations across 15 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- përallë adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Bulgarian
1 entries- приказен adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Dutch
1 entries- sprookjesachtig adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Finnish
2 entries- satu adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
- satumainen adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
German
1 entries- märchenhaft adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Greek
1 entries- παραμυθένιος adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Hungarian
1 entries- mesebeli adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Icelandic
1 entries- ævintýralegur adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Irish
1 entries- draíochtach adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Italian
1 entries- fiabesco adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Latvian
1 entries- pasakains adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Polish
2 entries- bajeczny adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
- baśniowy adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Romanian
1 entries- basm adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Russian
1 entries- ска́зочный adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Swedish
1 entries- sagolik adj (of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Sami has been living a fairy-tale life with Layla.
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Mennad had a fairy-tale love affair with an actress.
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The more a state aims at creating a culture of distraction from the lack of justification for its own existence, the more it supports creation of and access to narrations that are lavishly presented on a spectacular scale and tend toward fairy-tale fictions.
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