Sache
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German sache, from Old High German sahha, from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.
Cognate with Bavarian Såch, German Low German Sake, Low German sake, Dutch zaak, Afrikaans saak, English sake, Danish sag, Swedish sak.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈzaxə/, [ˈzäχə] (Standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈsaχɛ/ (Austria)
- Rhymes: -aχə
- Hyphenation: Sa‧che
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]Sache f (genitive Sache, plural Sachen, diminutive Sächlein n or Sächelchen n)
- matter, affair, case, question, issue
- beschlossene Sache ― done deal
- Die Polizei untersuchte die Sache ohne Ergebnis.
- The police investigated the matter with no result.
- thing, object
- Da ist noch eine Sache.
- There's one more thing (for me to say).
- (law) thing, piece of property
- bewegliche Sache ― movable property
- unbewegliche Sache ― immovable property
- Sachen im Sinne des Gesetzes sind nur körperliche Gegenstände.[1]
- Only corporeal objects are things as defined by law.
- cause, action
- subject, matter, business
- Das ist Privatsache.
- That's a private matter.
- 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Schneeschmelze:
- »Das tut nichts zur Sache«, sagte die Frau.
- "That's got nothing to do with it," said the woman.
- (chiefly in the plural, colloquial) kilometres per hour
- Er raste mit hundert Sachen um die Ecke.
- He raced around the corner at 100 per.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Sache [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]- abgekartete Sache (“put-up affair”)
- Ansichtssache (“matter of opinion”)
- beschlossene Sache (“done deal”)
- Hauptsache (“main thing”)
- Nebensache (“minor matter, minor point”)
- Privatsache (“private matter, private affair”)
- Sachbegriff (“subject heading”)
- Sachbuch (“non-fiction (book)”)
- sachdienlich (“pertinent, relevant, helpful”)
- sächlich (“neuter”)
- sachlich (“objective”)
- Tatsache (“fact”)
- Verschlusssache (“classified information”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Kashubian: zacha
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Sache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Sache” in Duden online
- “Sache” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Sache”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Hunsrik
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Sache f
Pennsylvania German
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[edit]Sache
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