To Announce
To Tell
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means announce so the verb vocab version is to announce.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: I'd like to announce... we're not having one baby, we're having two (つ) babies!
恋人に別れを告げました。
I bid farewell to my girlfriend.
今日の朝会で、コウイチは明日からじで入院することを社員に告げた。
Koichi announced to his employees at today's morning meeting that he would be hospitalized for hemorrhoids from tomorrow on.
ビエトはコウイチに、マミはみんなの想像の斜め上を行く変人だと告げた。
Viet told Koichi that Mami is much weirder than everyone imagined.