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)
  • (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