say
Significado
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- To pronounce.
- To recite.
- To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- (informal) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (informal) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/seɪ/
Etimoloxía
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“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 tell, talk”). Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Low German seggen (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן (zogn, “to say; to tell”). The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
Relacionado con frisón occidental
sizze
Relacionado con neerlandés
zeggen
Relacionado con alemán
sagen
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