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absagen

German, verb

absagen is spelled A-B-S-A-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absagen is a German verb meaning “to cancel, to call off (an activity or event)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, absägen is a different word: “to saw off”. With a capital, Absagen is a different word: “gerund of absagen”. On this page, Absägen is a different word: “gerund of absägen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Angekündigtes widerrufen, eine Veranstaltung oder sonstiges nicht stattfinden lassen”.

What does absagen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cancel, to call off (an activity or event)

    Wegen der hohen Kosten hat das Unternehmen seine Teilnahme an dem Projekt abgesagt.

  2. 2

    to decline

verb

as absägen
  1. 1

    to saw off

  2. 2

    colloquialto oust, to freeze out (to remove a someone from a position, especially by withdrawing political support as part of a power struggle)

noun

as Absagen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of absagen

noun

as Absagen
  1. 1

    plural of Absage

noun

as Absägen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of absägen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. etwas Angekündigtes widerrufen, eine Veranstaltung oder sonstiges nicht stattfinden lassen

verb: 1. mit einer Säge abtrennen 2. jemanden bewusst aus einer Position drängen, jemanden gezielt scheitern lassen

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of absagen

  • sägt ab present singular third-person
  • sägte ab past
  • abgesägt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • absägend participle present
  • abzusägen infinitive infinitive-zu
  • säge ab first-person indicative present
  • sägen ab first-person indicative plural
  • sägst ab indicative present second-person
  • sägest ab second-person singular subjunctive
  • säget ab plural second-person subjunctive
  • sägten ab first-person indicative plural
  • sägtest ab indicative preterite second-person
  • sägtet ab indicative plural preterite
  • sage ab present
  • sagst ab present
  • sagt ab present
  • sagte ab past

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is absagen in German?

absagen appears 5.9 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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