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ça va sans dire

adv.

that goes without saying

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dire

      nm
au dire de      according to
selon leurs dires      according to them

   (=exprimer)   to say
  [+secret, mensonge]   to tell
Qu'est-ce qu'il a dit?      What did he say?
dire l'heure      to tell the time
dire la vérité      to tell the truth
Elle m'a dit la vérité.      She told me the truth.
dire pardon      to say sorry
dire merci      to say thank you
dire qch à qn      to tell sb sth, to say sth to sb
Qu'est-ce qu'il t'a dit?      What did he tell you?, What did he say to you?
Dites-moi ce que vous pensez.      Tell me what you think.
dire à qn qu'il fasse, dire à qn de faire      to tell sb to do
Il nous a dit de regarder cette émission.      He told us to watch this programme.
dire que      to say, to say that
Il a dit qu'il ne viendrait pas.      He said he wouldn't come.

(=prétendre)
On le dit malade. They say he's ill., He's said to be ill.

   (=plaire)
dire à qn      [idée, proposition]
Si cela lui dit.      If he feels like it.
Cela ne me dit rien.      That doesn't appeal to me.

   (=penser)
que dites-vous de ...?      what do you think of ...?
Qu'en dites-vous?      What do you think?

     (autres locutions)    comme on dit      as they say
on dit que      they say, they say that
On dit que la nourriture y est excellente.      They say that the food there is excellent.
on dirait que        (il semble que)    it looks like, it looks as if
On dirait qu'il va pleuvoir.      It looks like it's going to rain., It looks as if it's going to rain.
on dirait du vin      it tastes like wine
à vrai dire      to tell the truth
pour ainsi dire      so to speak
cela va sans dire      that goes without saying
dis donc!, dites donc!        (pour attirer l'attention)    hey!
   (=au fait)   by the way
Il a drôlement changé, dis donc!      Hey, he's really changed!
et dire que ...      and to think that ...
ceci dit, cela dit      that being said
Cela dit, je n'aimerais pas être à sa place.      That being said, I wouldn't like to be in his place.
c'est dit      so that's settled
voilà qui est dit      so that's settled
il n'y a pas à dire      there's no getting away from it
c'est dire si ...      that just shows that ...
c'est beaucoup dire      that's saying a lot
c'est peu dire      that's not saying much

c'est-à-dire
adv

(annonçant une explication) that is, i.e.
la lemmatisation, c'est-à-dire la réduction à la forme canonique lemmatization, that is to say reduction to the base form

(annonçant une précision) that is
Est-ce que tu peux venir lundi prochain, c'est-à-dire le 15? Can you come next Monday, that's the 15th?

     (demande de précision)    c'est-à-dire?      meaning what?
Ensuite, il faut lemmatiser - c'est-à-dire?      Then you have to lemmatize - meaning what?
→ nous allons restructurer dans une optique d'optimisation des acquis - c'est-à-dire?

(autres locutions) c'est-à-dire que ... (=en conséquence) which means that ...
(excuse) well, in fact ...

dire (se)

vpr/réfl

(fig) (=penser) to say to oneself, to think
Quand je l'ai vu, je me suis dit qu'il avait vieilli. When I saw him, I thought he'd aged.

   (=se prétendre)
se dire malade      to say one is ill, to say that one is ill
se dire artiste      to claim to be an artist

vpr/récip
se dire au revoir to say goodbye, to say goodbye to each other

      vpr/pass
comment ça se dit en anglais?      how do you say that in English?
ça se dit 'ethnic' en anglais      that's "ethnic" in English, you say "ethnic" in English
ça ne se dit pas comme ça      you don't say it like that
est-ce que ça se dit?      can you say that?

ouï-dire
      nm inv
par ouï-dire      by hearsay

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ça ne se dit pas comme ça	exp.	you don't say it like that
ça vous dit ?	exp.	are you interested ? are you tempted ? are you in ?	= êtes-vous intéressé ?
ça en dit long	adv.	it tells its own story
ça ne t'a rien dit	adv.	1) you didn't feel like it, 2) it didn't ring any bell to you
ça me dit quelque chose	exp.	it reminds me of something, it rings a bell
ça ne leur dit rien	adv.	they do not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to them
ça ne lui dit rien	adv.	he/she does not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to him/her
ça ne m'a rien dit	adv.	I didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to me
ça ne me dit rien	adv.	I do not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to me
ça ne nous dit rien	adv.	we do not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to us
ça ne t'a rien dit	adv.	you didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to you
ça ne te dit rien	adv.	you do not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to you
ça ne vous dit rien	adv.	you do not feel like it ; it does not ring any bell to you
depuis qu'il m'a dit ça	exp.	since he said that to me
est-ce que ça se dit?	exp.	can you say that?
ça ne leur a rien dit	adv.	they didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to them
ça ne lui a rien dit	adv.	he/she didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to him/her
ça ne nous a rien dit	adv.	we didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to us
ça ne vous a rien dit	adv.	you didn't feel like it ; it didn't ring any bell to you
comment ça se dit en anglais?	exp.	how do you say that in English?
ça se dit 'ethnic' en anglais	exp.	that's "ethnic" in English
ça se dit 'ethnic' en anglais	exp.	you say "ethnic" in English
moins on en dit, mieux ça vaut	adv.	the less said, the better
ça ne lui dit rien de bon	adv.	he/she does not have a good feeling about it
ça ne lui dit rien qui vaille	adv.	he/she does not have a good feeling about it
ça ne me dit rien de bon	adv.	I don't have a good feeling about it
ça ne me dit rien qui vaille	adv.	I don't have a good feeling about it
J'ai dit aux enfants d'aller jouer.	exp.	I told the children to go and play.

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