say
verbenomadverbeinterjectionnomverbenomnomtop 1 000 des dialogues de films
- Royaume-Uni//seɪ//
- Royaume-Uni/[sɛj]/
- États-Unis//seɪ//
- États-Unis/[seː]/
To pronounce.
verbe
- 1
To pronounce.
Please say your name slowly and clearly.
- 2
To recite.
Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- 3
To tell, either verbally or in writing.
He said he would be here tomorrow.
The note I think he said she wrote is nowhere to be found.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
- 4
To indicate in a written form.
The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
What time does it say on the clock?
- 5
To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."
They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
- 6
familierSuppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
Say he refuses. What do we do then?
Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it okay to steal some food?
I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say, and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt[…]
- 7
To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge
To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
- 8
familierTo bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'
Étymologie
From Middle English saien, sain, san, secgan, segen, seien, sein, seiȝen, sugen, sægen, ziggen, from Old English seċġan, secgean, secggan, secggean, seggan, sæċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sai, seede, sii, sjide, sooi, säie (“to say”), West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Alemannic German ŝchége, ŝchegi, séege, säge, sägä (“to say”), Bavarian sogn, soon, sågn (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say, tell”), Luxembourgish soen (“to say”), Vilamovian ziöen, zuön, zuø̄n (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Elfdalian saja (“to say”), Faroese siga (“to say”), Icelandic segja (“to say”), Jamtish segi (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk segja, seia, seie (“to say, tell”), Scanian siğa (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”); also Cornish hwedhel (“narrative, story, tale”), Irish scéal (“story, tale”), Manx skeeal (“story; news; narrative”), Scottish Gaelic sgeul (“story, tale; information, news”), Welsh chwedl (“story, tale”), hebu (“to say”), Latin inquam (“to say”), Ancient Greek ἐνέπω (enépō), ἐννέπω (ennépō, “tell or tell about; speak”), Latvian sacīt (“to say, tell”), Lithuanian sakyti (“to say, tell”), Bulgarian соча (soča, “to indicate; to point”), Czech sočit (“to blame, hate”), Old Polish soczyć (“to accuse, slander”), Russian сочи́ть (sočítʹ, “to emit (a liquid)”), Ukrainian сочи́ти (sočýty, “to emit (a liquid), exude, ooze; to drain, sap”). The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
nom
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A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
The local government did not have much say in the matter.
Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says.
He has consolidated the military's role in politics through an army-drafted 2017 constitution widely seen as designed to prevent Pheu Thai from returning to power and ensuring a continuing say for the army.
Sunday’s general election has been cast as a high-stakes contest between democracy and military rule, but critics say a new army-backed constitution gives junta-appointed officials a large say in the next government.
adverbe
- 1
For example; let us assume.
Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.
He was a very old man, and was heavy, say about 250 pounds.
interjection
- 1
Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
Say, what did you think about the movie?
nom
- 1
A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
Per.[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Will.[y] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of greene ſaye, / Will. the greene is for maydens meete.
All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was […]
Étymologie
From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).
verbe
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To try; to assay.
I, that had sayed on one of his customers sutes.
Étymologie
Aphetic form of assay.
nom
- 1
Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
- 2
Tried quality; temper; proof.
He found a sword of better say.
- 3
Essay; trial; attempt.
This fellow, Captaine, Will come, in time, to be a great distiller, And giue a say[…]at the philosophers stone.
nom
- 1
A strainer for milk.
Formes
- pluriel
- says
- passé
- said, sayed
- participe passé
- said, sayed
- participe présent
- saying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- says