Alternativa stavningar
- (föråldrada ord) saye
- (eye dialect) zay
- (arkaistisk) saie
- (eye dialect) thay
- (föråldrada ord) seye
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- To try; to assay.
- (transitive) To recite.
- To communicate, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- (impersonal) To have a common expression; .
- (informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; .
Substantiv
- One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
- A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
- Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
- Tried quality; temper; proof.
- Essay; trial; attempt.
Adverb
- For example; let us assume.
Exempel
- 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[...]
- He found a sword of better say.
- Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
- If those principal works of God [...] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
- All in a kirtle of discolourd say / He clothed was [...]
- Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?
- He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.
- Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
- Say, what did you think about the movie?
- 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.
- 'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'
- To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
- You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
- Please say your name slowly and clearly.
- Say he refuses. What do we do then?
- A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
- It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
- It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
- They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
- They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."
- The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- He said he would be here tomorrow.
- 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.
- Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | said | Perfektparticip | seyde |
| Perfektparticip | sayde | Perfektparticip | sayd |
| Perfektparticip | ysayde | Perfektparticip | sayed |
| Imperfekt | said | Imperfekt | seyde |
| Imperfekt | sayde | Imperfekt | sayd |
| Imperfekt | sayed | Presensparticip | saying |
| Plural | says | Tredje person singular indicativ presens | says |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | sayeth | Tredje person singular indicativ presens | saith |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | sez | Tredje person singular indicativ presens | seith |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | sayth | | |