sagen

Danish

Noun

sagen c

1. definite singular of sag

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

sagen

1. plural of sage

Anagrams

• agens, genas

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sagen, from Old High German sagēn, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaːɡən/, /zaːɡŋ̩/
• Rhymes: -aːɡn̩
• Hyphenation: sa‧gen

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Verb

sagen (weak, third-person singular present sagt, past tense sagte, past participle gesagt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to say (to pronounce; communicate verbally)
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 105:

     Sie schwiegen lange. Als er endlich etwas sagen wollte, wehrte sie leise ab. „Heute nichts mehr, ich bitte dich darum“.

     They were silent for a long time. When he finally wanted to say something, she softly refused. “Nothing more today, I beg you for that.”

2. (transitive) to tell (to inform (someone) verbally)
3. (transitive) to mean (to convey or signify)
4. to speak up

Usage notes

In those inflected forms in which the stem sag- is not followed by a vowel, it is often pronounced: /zax/. This is due to dialectal influence and common throughout northern and central Germany. See the entries sag, sagst, sagt, sagte, sagtest, sagten, sagtet, and gesagt.

Conjugation

• 1st ps. sg. indicative present active also: sag', sag

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sagen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “sagen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “sagen” in Duden online
• “sagen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Japanese

Romanization

sagen

1. Rōmaji transcription of さげん

Middle Dutch

Verb

sâgen

1. first/third-person plural past indicative/subjunctive of sien

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German sagēn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̠aɡən/

Verb

sagen (class 2 weak or class 1 weak, third-person singular present saget or seit, past tense sagete or seite, past participle gesaget or geseit, auxiliary hân)

1. to say

Conjugation

Descendants

• German: sagen

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “sagen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke‎, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• saga

Noun

sagen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of sag

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, whence also Old Saxon seggian, Old English secgan, Old Norse segja. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

sagēn

1. to say

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle High German: sagen
  • Alemannic German: säge
    • Alsatian: soeje (near Fränkisch areas, in Northern Alsace), sawe (Central), sàge (South)
    • Swabian:
      • Sathmar Swabian: sage
    • Walser: sägä, séege, ŝchegi, ŝchége
  • Bavarian: sogn, sågn; song; soon, sång
  • Central Franconian: sage
  • German: sagen
  • Luxembourgish: soen
  • Vilamovian: ziön
  • Yiddish: זאָגן (zogn)