sagen

sagen c

1. definite singular of sag

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sagen

1. plural of sage

• agens, genas

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.

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

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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

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 & sach, sagst, sagt, sagte, sagtest, sagten, sagtet, and gesagt.

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

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

sagen

1. Rōmaji transcription of さげん

sâgen

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

Inherited from Old High German sagēn.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠aɡən/

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 hān)

1. to say

• German: sagen

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

• saga

sagen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of sag

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-.

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sagēn

1. to say

• 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 (phonetic spelling), soon (Timau), sång
  • Central Franconian: sage
  • German: sagen
  • Luxembourgish: soen
  • Vilamovian: ziön
  • Yiddish: זאָגן (zogn)