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Meaning say meaning

What does say mean?
Definitions in simple English

say Verb

— When you say something, you share it in words. He says he is hungry.

say

— verb (= state, tell) express in words He said that he wanted to marry her tell me what is bothering you state your opinion state your name — verb (= allege) report or maintain He alleged that he was the victim of a crime He said it was too late to intervene in the war The registrar says that I owe the school money — verb express a supposition Let us say that he did not tell the truth Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do? — verb (= read) have or contain a certain wording or form The passage reads as follows What does the law say? — verb (= order, tell) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority I said to him to go home She ordered him to do the shopping The mother told the child to get dressed — verb (= pronounce, sound out) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way She pronounces French words in a funny way I cannot say 'zip wire' Can the child sound out this complicated word? — verb communicate or express nonverbally What does this painting say? Did his face say anything about how he felt? — verb utter aloud She said 'Hello' to everyone in the office — verb state as one's opinion or judgement; declare I say let's forget this whole business — verb indicate The clock says noon — verb recite or repeat a fixed text Say grace She said her 'Hail Mary' — noun the chance to speak let him have his say

Synonyms say synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as say?

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speak tell talk utter state express declare pronounce communicate narrate inform show mention mean report think discuss announce voice sound order enunciate call word vocalize suppose speech remark relate read look indicate hey guess articulate address words let know give enjoin convey chat aver assert ask allege you there well verbalize vent

Topics say topics

What do people use say to talk about?
Language and thought Communication

Say
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Repeat
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Say farewell
Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Show, indicate
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Evidentials

Evaluator
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Language and thought Want Request

Agree to do something
Language and thought Want Request

Refuse to do something
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Language and thought Want Offer

Reject
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Say nothing
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Mention
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Greet
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
Language and thought Communication Say

Debate
Language and thought Communication Say Praise

Thank
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Blame
Language and thought Communication Story

Saying, proverb
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Brave
Daily life Food Eat

Meal
States Quantity

Count
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Sure
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Probably
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Evidentials

  • inference from results: the speaker infers the situation described from the evidence at hand (i.e. from the observable results of the causing event/action.)
    from the results I would say...
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of identificational and explanatory clauses

Conjugation say conjugation

How do you conjugate say?

say · verb

Examples say examples

How do I use say in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I just don't know what to say.
How do you say that in Italian?
My friends always say I'm too calm, but my family always says I'm too annoying.
I don't know what to say to make you feel better.
Did you say that I could never win?
I can not make out at all what you say.
What you say is quite different from what I heard from him.
While I understand what you say, I can't agree with you.
I can only say that I agree with you.
What did he say?
Now it's time to say good night.
I don't know what to say.
I simply don't know what to say.
They say love is blind.
Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months.
You will say and do things your parents said and did, even if you swore you would never do them.
NASA says it has sufficient information to say that a human visit to the red planet is feasible.
Do you have difficulty understanding what women or small children say to you?
When can one say that a person has alcohol issues?
I couldn't say when exactly in my life it occurred to me that I would be a pilot someday.

Movie subtitles

You always say that!
How long did the doctor say I have to live?
Did I say that? -Yes.
When other people say something, you act as if nothing happened but when I say something..
Say it now.
Chaeyoon didn't you say you loved me more than yourself?
Even if you say the military, it's only a small portion of it.
What did she just say?
What does the TV say?
Well of course we don't really have final say over where we get sent, but. I have been praying to be sent to my favorite place in the whole world.
It's just he sometimes makes things up when he doesn't know what else to say.
I'll say!
And so we say up to the sky Hasa Diga Eebowai!
I won't be selfish and say I want to see her again.
We sat there, I'd almost say, locked up in the Observatory's lecture room for a week.
What does the leader say?
Don't say that.
Warn your people, so they can't say they weren't given fair warning.
What he say?
They say they don't have enough grazing fields.
Let me say that I completely disagree with your arabophile views.
Say you'll take me with you.
They say I'm mixed.
But say your prayers first.
How can you say that.
I came to say goodbye.
Why do you say that?
What makes you say that? Because I betrayed Nick, and he's the only guy who can stand up to freakin' Frankie.
I was gonna say?
I wanted to say thank you.
What do you say to 'em Rick?
There's no easy way of saying this, OK, so I'm just going to say it straight out.
I can't hear you Rachel, say that again.
Is that a don't know, or won't say?
Say your goodbyes.
What makes you say that?
Scott and Allison's relationship is, I would say, pretty typical to any other teenager's relationship, certainly to ones that I've had in the past.
Daniel is a really, really nice, really sweet person, and he has such a gentle-- a very gentle spirit, I guess you can say.
Come here. I want to say something to you.
Carolina sort of-- she couldn't say much, but she said that she was-- they were fighting-- her and Johnny were fighting.

News and current affairs

I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.
He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.
And what does it say about us if we won't?
Cutting speed limits to, say, 10 kilometers per hour would prevent most accidents and save many lives.
In addition, the EU should create a small but effective military force (say, 5,000 troops) to back up the common body's decisions.
Serbia would save face, and would continue to have a say on crucial matters concerning Kosovo, including the treatment of the Serbian minority.
I say this as leader of the party which has been at the forefront of Britain's engagement with Europe.
There are some who say that this would mean a loss of influence on the part of those countries which choose not to integrate more closely.
This is not to say that he is unemotional.
This is not to say that the economic concept of politics is utterly strange to the Chinese - or, for that matter, that the religious notion of politics is unknown in the democratic West.
Lacking such external threats, the ties between, say, Czechs and Slovaks (to say nothing of Serbs and Croats!) are too weak to warrant a common national level of government.
First, they should say clearly to their own voters that the EU must live up to its promises to Turkey, and that this is in the larger interest of all Europeans.
Prisons, I fear, would be full of abusive husbands and, I regret to say, vengeful mothers-in-law.
Rumor has it the couple has set February 8 or 9 for the wedding. Others say that Sarkozy has already outsmarted the media by secretly marrying in the Elysee Palace, even as he was dodging wedding questions.
The good news is that economic research does have a few things to say about whether Europe should have a single currency.
Because Burma's generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.
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