tell apart

distinguer, différencier

Reconnaître les différences entre deux personnes ou choses pour identifier chacune.

En anglais simple : If you can recognize how two people or things are different, you can identify each one.

• Can you tell them apart?
• I told the twins apart by their voices.
• These keys look so similar that nobody can tell them apart.

Comment l'utiliser : tell someone/something apart (I cannot tell these two birds apart.)

Synonymes : distinguish, differentiate

Expressions courantes : tell people apart, tell them apart, tell twins apart