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 [with zu (+ infinitive) ‘doing something’]

   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 fürs 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).

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

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

schāde m or f or n

2. shadow, shade

• 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.

• shadde, shade
• scæde (Early Middle English)
• ssade (south West Midlands); ssed (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃad(ə)/, /ˈʃaːd(ə)/

schade (plural schades)

1. A shadow; a dark image formed by blocking light.
   • 15th century, James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair:

     walking in the schade

     walking in the shade

2. A shade; the darkened region cast by a shadow.
3. (rare) Reflections present in water.
4. (rare, by extension) Darkness; absence of light.

• nyȝtschade

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

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

schade

1. alternative form of sched