sagten an

/[ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sagten an is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen Pronounced [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan].

Key facts for sagten an
PropertyValue
Headwordsagten an
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sagten an is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for sagten an is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sagten an in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is sagten an, spelled S-A-G-T-E-N- -A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen
  2. 2
    1. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen
  3. 3
    3. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen
  4. 4
    3. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sagten an"?
"sagten an" is spelled S-A-G-T-E-N- -A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan].
What does "sagten an" mean?
As a verb, "sagten an" means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs ansagen
How do you pronounce "sagten an"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sagten an" is [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈan]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sagten an" come from?
"sagten an" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.