German

Noun

Sagen n ‎(genitive Sagens, no plural)

1. gerund of sagen

Declension

Noun

Sagen f

1. plural of Sage

Danish

Noun

sagen c

1. singular definite of sag

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

sagen

1. Plural form of sage

Anagrams

• agens, genas

German

Etymology

From Old High German sagēn, 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

Verb

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

1. (transitive or intransitive) to say; to tell
   • 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“

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

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

sagen

1. rōmaji reading of さげん

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• saga

Noun

sagen m, f

1. definite masculine singular of sag

Old High German

Etymology

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

Verb

sagēn

1. to say

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle High German: sagen
  • German: sagen
  • Yiddish: זאָגן ‎(zogn)