Another word meaning drastic is dire or severe
what was so dire ? The surgery was very dire .
'tu ne sais plus ce que tu veux dire' means 'you don't remember what you wanted to say'
Dire is defined as an extremely serious or urgent warning or threat. This usually refers to a situation or event with presaging disaster.
You will be in dire straits if you do not learn your vocabulary words.
The only meaning for "dire" that I know of is the traditional dictionary one.
meaning -> signification (f), or sens (m)
Another word meaning drastic is dire or severe
Ca veut dire quoi means 'what does that mean?'
C'est que veut dire spca? The literal translation doesn't make much sense "It is what wants to say spca?" "que veut dire" is translate "what is the meaning" And so the question translates losely to, "What does spca mean?"
what was so dire ? The surgery was very dire .
'tu ne sais plus ce que tu veux dire' means 'you don't remember what you wanted to say'
To tell is 'dire' in French.
Dire need (two words) is a something that is required so much that if not gained, it will result in death. This phrase is generally used in a figurative sense, not a literal sense as in: I am in dire need of some ice cream right now.
Dire is defined as an extremely serious or urgent warning or threat. This usually refers to a situation or event with presaging disaster.
The term "dire straits" which means desperate circumstances has no particular origin. It is just one of those phrases which people adopted as a cliche to describe a particular thing.It is spelled strait - it has no relation to straight. A strait is a difficult circumstance.The word, dire, comes from the Latin word, dirus, which has a meaning close to terrifying. The word, strait, is a derivation of the word, straight, and originally had a similar meaning - tight and/or narrow. In the 14th century, it's meaning became more specified to mean narrow waterway.A literal translation for dire straits, then, would be terrifying narrow (or tight) waterway. A very nice metaphor for what we understand this phrase to mean.
The company is in dire straits. The dire situation kept the lifeboat's occupants quiet.