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/, [-ɡ̥ɛn], [-ɡ̥ŋ̩] (Austria)
• IPA^(key): [sɑːʔŋ̩] (colloquial; southern Germany)
• 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 [with etwas]

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-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̠aɡeːn]

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)