say
Part of speech: verb
noun
adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
money
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: says
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: said
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: said
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: say
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: say
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: said
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: say
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sayest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: said
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: saidst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: says
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sayeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: saith
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: said
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: say
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: said
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: say
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: said
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: say
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: saying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: said
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: saye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: zay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: says
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: saye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: zay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: saie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: saye
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seye
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thay
pos: adv
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: zay
pos: adv
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: saie
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: saye
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seye
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: zay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: To pronounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please say your name slowly and clearly.
gloss: To recite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To tell, either verbally or in writing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He said he would be here tomorrow.
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.
‘All right,’ said Jessamy. ‘I say, Miss Brindle said she’d think about you coming to see the house some time. I said I was sure you weren’t the stone throwing kind, not at windows, I mean.’
I want to say I’m sorry for yesterday. — It’s okay, Anna.
gloss: To indicate in a written form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
What time does it say on the clock?
gloss: To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
informal
transitive
examples: 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[…]
gloss: To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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?
gloss: To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
pos: verb
tags: especially
informal
transitive
examples: 'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'
gloss: A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To have a say
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.
gloss: For example; let us assume.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
pos: intj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Say, what did you think about the movie?
Synonyms: blather
dictate
gab
report
say
speak
state
tell
utter
verbalize
voice
yak
Antonyms: sign
signal
write
Related words: hearsay
say again
Derived words: againsay
and so say all of us
as I was saying
as the saying goes
as they say
as who should say
before you can say Jack Robinson
before you can say knife
besay
can we say
daresay
dare-say
dare say
dare-saying
dessay
do as I say and not as I do
don't say gay
doomsaying
do you know what I'm saying
easy for you to say
endsay
enough said
final say
foresay
forsay
gainsay
go without saying
have a say
have to say for oneself
hear what I'm saying
how do you say … in English
how say you
how you say
I'd say
if I do say so myself
if I may say so
if I say so myself
if you don't mind me saying
if you say so
if you see something, say something
I hear you say
I'll say
I must say
I said what I said
I say
it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right
it goes without saying
it is said
it's not what you say but how you say it
just saying
just say no
know what I'm saying
let's not and say we did
let's say
mean to say
missay
naysay
nay-say
naysayer
need I say more
needless to say
never say die
never-say-die
never say never
not saying much
not to say
or should I say
oversay
please say that again
resay
sad to say
said no one ever
said the thing
saith
say aah
sayability
sayable
say again
say boo
say boo to a goose
say bo to a goose
say cheese
sayee
sayer
sayeth
say goodbye
say grace
say hello
say hello to my little friend
saying
say it ain't so
say it all
say la vee
say less
say no
say no more
say none
say nothing
say one's piece
say one's prayers
say on pay
say-so
say someone's prayers
say that
say that again
say the quiet part loud
say the quiet part out loud
say the word
say to oneself
say uncle
say wha
say what
say what you like
say when
say word one
say yes
say you swear
shall I say
shall we say
soothsay
so they say
so to say
strange to say
sufficed to say
suffice it to say
suffice to say
that is to say
that's saying something
that's what he said
the deuce you say
the devil you say
the dickens you say
the hell you say
there is much to be said
there isn't any easy way to say this
they say
those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
though I say it who should not
though I say it who should not say it
though I say so myself
to say nothing of
to say the least
true say
undersay
unsay
whaddayasay
what can I say
what do you say
whatever you say
what say
what say you
what you saying
which is to say
withsay
wouldn't you say
yeasay
yea-say
yeasayer
you can say that again
you can't say fairer than that
you don't say
you hear what I'm saying
you know what I'm saying
you know what they say
you said a mouthful
you've said a mouthful
you were saying
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: да ка́жем
roman: da kážem
lang: Burmese
word: ပေါ့
roman: pau.
lang: Dutch
word: laten wij zeggen
lang: Esperanto
word: ni diru
lang: Finnish
word: sanotaan
lang: Finnish
word: oletetaan
lang: French
word: disons
lang: Galician
word: digamos
lang: Georgian
word: ვთქვათ
roman: vtkvat
lang: Georgian
word: სიტყვაზე
roman: siṭq̇vaze
lang: German
word: sagen wir
lang: Hebrew
word: נגיד
roman: nagíd
lang: Italian
word: diciamo
lang: Lithuanian
word: tarkim
lang: Manx
word: abbyr
lang: Portuguese
word: suponhamos
lang: Portuguese
word: digamos
lang: Russian
word: ска́жем
roman: skážem
lang: Slovak
word: povedzme
lang: Spanish
word: digamos
lang: Swedish
word: ponera
lang: Swedish
word: låt oss säga
lang: Swedish
word: låt säga
lang: Turkish
word: diyelim