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Sa.

German, noun

Sa. is spelled S-A (2 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,521st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sa. is a German noun meaning “abbreviation of Samstag or Sonnabend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, saß is a different word: “past of sitzen”.

What does Sa. mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    abbreviation of Samstag or Sonnabend

verb

as saß
  1. 1

    past of sitzen

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

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. Samstag 2. Sonnabend 3. Sachsen

interjection: 1. Hetzruf für Jagdhunde: hier her! lustig!, wohlan!

abbreviation: 1. Samstag, Sonnabend

abbreviation: 1. Samstag / Sonnabend 2. Sturmabteilung 3. Sachsen-Anhalt 4. Saudi-Arabien

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 Sa.

  • Sa. alternative

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

English words that translate to Sa.

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Sa. in German?

Sa. appears 23 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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