sagten zu

/[ˌzaːktn̩ ˈt͡suː]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sagten zu is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zusagen Pronounced [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈt͡suː].

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

Frequency rank visualization

sagten zu 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 zu is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈt͡suː]. 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 zu 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 zu, spelled S-A-G-T-E-N- -Z-U, 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 zusagen
  2. 2
    1. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zusagen
  3. 3
    3. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zusagen
  4. 4
    3. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zusagen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sagten zu"?
"sagten zu" is spelled S-A-G-T-E-N- -Z-U. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈt͡suː].
What does "sagten zu" mean?
As a verb, "sagten zu" means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zusagen
How do you pronounce "sagten zu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sagten zu" is [ˌzaːktn̩ ˈt͡suː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sagten zu" come from?
"sagten zu" 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.