said yes
said yes is the simple past and past participle of say yes.
Meaning of say yes
Verb
say yes (third-person singular simple present says yes, present participle saying yes, simple past and past participle said yes)
- To agree; to consent to; to accept.
- They met on summer days, put their hands in their pockets and traded each other grasshoppers learning to say yes and no. One kick and a spit meant yes. Two kicks and a spit meant no. One two three, four five six of a kick and a spit meant the grasshopper was counting and learning numbers.1923, Carl Sandburg, chapter 11, in Rootabaga Pigeons
- Antonyms:
- say no
Questions about said yes
- What is said yes the simple past and past participle of?
- Said yes is the simple past and past participle of say yes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: said yes (page history and authors); say yes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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