1. 1(古語)說(第三人稱,等於 says)

    Saith means says. It is only the old form for he, she, or it — the way English used to mark “this person does it now.” Four hundred years ago a verb often took -th at the end: he hath (he has), he (he does), he saith (he says). You will meet it in the old Bible many churches still read, in Shakespeare, and when someone puts on a church-or-castle voice for a joke or a story. Nobody says it in a shop, a text, or a normal class. If you write he saith in an email, it sounds like a costume, not like careful English. The sound is like seth, not like say with an extra th stuck on.

組成From Old English sæġþ, from seċġan, “to say.” The -th is the old ending for he/she/it, the same kind of ending as in hath and doth.

同家族的字

  • saysaith is only an old he/she/it form of say
  • saidthe past form of the same verb

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。