dire

to say, to tell (to express through speech)

— Parfaitement... et il a dit à ces dames que c'était un étranger, arrivé récemment à Paris et colossalement riche.

— Perfectly…and he told these ladies that he was a foreigner, recently arrived in Paris and colossally rich.

to tell (to order, to advise)

Il lui a dit de partir.

He told him to go away.

to say, to tell (to set out in writing)

Je vous ai dit dans ma dernière lettre que….

I told you in my last letter that….

to say (often used in the sense of responding to an objection)

Qu'avez-vous à dire à cela ?

What do you have to say to that?

to say, to tell of (to celebrate, to sing, to narrate)

Il leur offrit de dire la messe pour leur obtenir de Dieu, au lieu de l'argent qu'ils demandaient, la grâce de souffrir chrétiennement leur ruine.

He offered to say mass to them to obtain for them from God, instead of the money that they were requesting, the grace to suffer their ruin Christianly.

to say, to tell (to deliver, to recite)

C'est bon, je n'aime pas à jouer les gêneurs. Je vais faire un tour au foyer, pendant que tu diras ton couplet.

It's fine, I don't like to play the nuisance. I'm going to take a walk in the foyer, whilst you say your verse.

to seem like, to look like

[…] ; sous ses cheveux, un œil gris brillait à la moindre contrariété d'un feu si resplendissant, qu'on eût dit alors un œil noir.

[…]; under his headhair, a grey eye was shining at the slightest irritation with a fire so gleaming, that it seemed to be then a black eye.

to mean, to say, to state (to denote, to signify, to indicate, to mark)

La fidélité aux traditions, devenue presque maniaque, disait l'appauvrissement d'un sang incapable de recréer.

Fidelity to tradition, which had become almost maniacal, meant the impoverishment of blood unable to recreate.

to say, to tell (used when speaking of actions, of gestures, of looks, etc., that demonstrate someone's thinking)

Mes yeux, mes regards vous disent que je vous aime.

My eyes, my looks tell you that I love you.

to call out (to denounce)

Aïe ! J'le dirai !

Ouch! I'mma call him out!

to say (to express what one thinks, what one feels, what one sees)

Et vous vous réveillez un jour avec ce besoin irrépressible de « dire ».

And you wake up one day with this irrepressible need to "say".

to say (to signify, to be used for a word, a phrase, a sentence)

Ce mot se dit de telle chose.

This word is said of such a thing.

to say (to claim, to assure that one has a certain quality)

Il se dit votre parent, votre ami.

He says he is your relative, your friend.

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)

Ils jettent bien encore des regards de convoitise sur nos bêtes, mais nous nous tenons sur nos gardes, et, nous voyant disposés à nous défendre, ils doivent se dire que le jeu ne vaudrait peut-être pas la chandelle.

They cast even more glances of covetousness at our beasts, but we stand on our guard, and, seeing us prepared to defend ourselves, they must think that the game would perhaps not be worth the candle.

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)

Ça te dit de regarder un film de science-fiction?

Do you want to watch a science fiction movie? What do you say to watching a science fiction movie?

to sound familiar

Ça me dit quelque chose.

It rings a bell.