schade

From Middle High German schaden, from Old High German scadōn, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþōn, from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną. Cognate with German schaden, English scathe, Icelandic skaða.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑdə/

schade (third-person singular simple present schadt, past participle gschadt, past subjunctive schadti, auxiliary haa)

1. To harm, hurt, damage.
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Ufrichtigkeit cha gwüß nüt schade.

     Sincerity certainly can't hurt.

   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):

     Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.

     Then we'll arrive a little earlier. It won't do any harm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: scha‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

From Middle Dutch schāde, from Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō, from Proto-Germanic *skaþô.

schade f (uncountable)

1. damage, detrimental effect

   voorkom schade door alcohol bij uw opgroeiende kind ― prevent damage from alcohol in your growing child

• Negerhollands: skaade, schad, skaede

From Middle Dutch scade, from Old Dutch skado, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu.

schade f (plural schaden)

1. (dialectal, possibly obsolete) Alternative form of schaduw (“shadow”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

schade

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of schaden

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə

From Schade, the obsolete nominative singular of Schaden (“damage”). The sense “too good to waste” from a conditional construction es wäre zu schade... (“it would be a pity to...”), but now usually construed with an indicative verb.

• schad (colloquial)

schade (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. a pity; bummer; unfortunate; disappointing

   Schade!

   What a pity!

   Das ist aber schade!

   That’s such a pity!

   Es ist zu schade, dass er nicht kommen konnte.

   It's a pity that he couldn’t make it.

2. (usually with zu) too good to waste

   Meine neuen Schuhe sind zu schade, um damit durch den Wald zu laufen.

   My new shoes are too good to wear them for a walk through the forest.

   Ich bin mir für's Kloputzen nicht zu schade.

   I don’t consider myself too good for cleaning the loo.

• Schaden

• Mitleid
• Scham f

schade

1. inflection of schaden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• “schade” in Duden online
• “schade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō.

schāde m or f

2. A damage, injury, loss.
3. A harm, suffering.
4. A shame, pity (something regrettable).

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: schade
  • Afrikaans: skade
• Limburgish: sjaaj

From Old Dutch skado, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu.

schāde m or f or n

2. shadow, shade

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: schaduw

• “scade (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “scade (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “schade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “schade (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old English sċeadu. Compare schadowe, from sċeaduwe, the accusative form of sċeadu.

• shade, scæde, ssade, ssed, shadde

• IPA^(key): /ʃad(ə)/, /ʃaːd(ə)/

schade (plural schades)

1. A shadow or a similar effect.
   • 15th century, James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair:

     walking in the schade

     walking in the shade

2. A shade or darkening.
3. Darkness, absence of light
4. Reflections present in water.

• nyȝtschade

• English: shade
• Scots: shade
• Yola: shaade

• “shā̆de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.

schade

1. Alternative form of sched