sagte

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See also: sägte

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Middle Low German sāfte, sāchte, from Old Saxon *sāfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samftī (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈsæːɡdə], [ˈsæjdə], [ˈsɑwdə]

Adjective[edit]

sagte

  1. soft, gentle

Adverb[edit]

sagte

  1. softly, gently

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “samÞu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): [ˈsɑɡ̊d̥ə]

Verb[edit]

sagte

  1. past participle definite singular of sige
  2. past participle plural of sige

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaːktə/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈzaxtə/ (common, northern Germany, central Germany)
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: sachte (nonstandard)

Verb[edit]

sagte

  1. inflection of sagen:
    1. first/third-person singular preterite
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive II

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Adverb[edit]

sagte

  1. (pre-1917) alternative form of sakte
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