No. 32 in Spanish
dijo
"She/he/it said" or "you (formal) said."
In a sentence
Ella dijo que estaría en casa tarde.
She said that she would be home late.
In this sentence, 'dijo' is the third-person singular preterite form of the verb 'decir', indicating that someone (she) communicated information in the past.
¿Qué te dijo él sobre la reunión?
What did he tell you about the meeting?
Here, 'dijo' once again represents the past tense action of stating or informing, attributed to 'él' (he).
Nadie me dijo que necesitábamos traer documentos.
Nobody told me that we needed to bring documents.
In this example, 'dijo' is used to express the lack of communicative action in the past by any person.
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