dire
Meanings
Verb
1. to say, to tell (to express through speech) (transitive)
2. to tell (to order, to advise) (transitive)
3. to say, to tell (to set out in writing) (transitive)
4. to say (often used in the sense of responding to an objection) (transitive)
5. to say, to tell of (to celebrate, to sing, to narrate) (transitive, poetic)
6. to say, to tell (to deliver, to recite) (transitive, current)
7. to seem like, to look like (transitive, figuratively, as the object, with the subject on; often in the conditional)
8. to mean, to say, to state (to denote, to signify, to indicate, to mark) (transitive)
9. to say, to tell (used when speaking of actions, of gestures, of looks, etc., that demonstrate someone's thinking) (transitive, figuratively)
10. to call out (to denounce) (transitive, informal)
11. to say (to express what one thinks, what one feels, what one sees) (intransitive)
12. to say (to signify, to be used for a word, a phrase, a sentence) (reflexive)
13. to say (to claim, to assure that one has a certain quality) (reflexive)
14. to say to oneself, to think to oneself, to tell oneself, to think (to make this or that reflection, to have this or that thought, to make this or that reasoning within oneself) (reflexive, transitive)
15. to be of interest to, to interest [with à ‘someone’], to be up for, to be interested, to like to, to feel like (to be okay with, to be tempted by) (informal)
16. to sound familiar (informal)
Examples11891
Qui vous dit, qui vous a dit que…?
Who tells you, who told you that…?
Je me le disais bien, je me l’étais bien dit.
I told myself so, I told myself so.
Cette chose ne dit rien.
This thing does not say anything.
Il lui a dit de partir.
He told him to go away.
Ça ne me dit trop rien d'y aller.
I don't really want to go [there].
Qu'avez-vous à dire à cela ?
What do you have to say to that?