Sache

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See also: sache, sachê, and sachè

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sache, from Old High German sahha, from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.

Cognate with Bavarian Såch, Yiddish זאַך (zakh), German Low German Sake, Low German Sake, Dutch zaak, Afrikaans saak, English sake, Danish sag, Swedish sak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaxə/, (Standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈsaχɛ/ (Austria)
  • Rhymes: -aχə
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧che
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Sache f (genitive Sache, plural Sachen, diminutive Sächlein n or Sächelchen n)

  1. matter, affair, case, question, issue
    beschlossene Sachedone deal
    Die Polizei untersuchte die Sache ohne Ergebnis.
    The police investigated the matter with no result.
  2. thing, object
    Da ist noch eine Sache.
    There's one more thing (for me to say).
  3. (law) thing, piece of property
    bewegliche Sachemovable property
    unbewegliche Sacheimmovable property
    • Sachen im Sinne des Gesetzes sind nur körperliche Gegenstände.
      Only corporeal objects are things as defined by law.
  4. cause, action
    • 1845, Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum , page 8; English translation based on Steven T. Byington, transl., The Ego and Its Own, 1907, page 6:
      Fort denn mit jeder Sache, die nicht ganz und gar Meine Sache ist! Ihr meint, Meine Sache müsse wenigstens die „gute Sache“ sein? Was gut, was böse! Ich bin ja selber Meine Sache, und Ich bin weder gut noch böse. Beides hat für Mich keinen Sinn.
      Das Göttliche ist Gottes Sache, das Menschliche Sache „des Menschen“. Meine Sache ist weder das Göttliche noch das Menschliche, ist nicht das Wahre, Gute, Rechte, Freie usw., sondern allein das Meinige, und sie ist keine allgemeine, sondern ist – einzig, wie Ich einzig bin.
      Mir geht nichts über Mich!
      Away, then, with every cause that is not altogether my cause! You think at least the "good cause" must be my cause? What's good, what's bad? Why, I myself am my cause, and I am neither good nor bad. Neither has meaning for me.
      The divine is God's cause; the human, human's. My cause is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is — unique, as I am unique.
      Nothing is more to me than myself!
  5. subject, matter, business
    Das ist Privatsache.
    That's a private matter.
    • 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Schneeschmelze:
      »Das tut nichts zur Sache«, sagte die Frau.
      "That's got nothing to do with it," said the woman.
  6. (chiefly in the plural, colloquial) kilometres per hour
    Er raste mit hundert Sachen um die Ecke.
    He raced around the corner at 100 per.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greater Polish: zacha
  • Kashubian: zacha
  • Slovincian: zacha

See also

References

  1. ^ BGB, § 90

Further reading

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Sache f

  1. plural of Sach

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Sache

  1. plural of Sach