sacht

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

16th c., borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), sachte (“soft”), from Middle Low German sachte, from Old Saxon *sāfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samftī (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).[1]

Doublet of sanft. Cognate with English soft.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zaxt/, [zaχt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: sagt (regional)

Adjective

sacht (strong nominative masculine singular sachter, comparative sachter, superlative am sachtesten)

  1. gentle, soft
    Synonyms: behutsam, mild, sanft, zart
    Ein sachter Sommerwind wehte durch die Nacht.
    A gentle summer wind blew through the night.

Usage notes
  • Adjectival use is less frequent than adverbial use. See below.

Declension

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Adverb

sacht

  1. gently
    Synonyms: behutsam, sanft
    Er setzte das Kind sacht auf den Boden.
    He set the child gently on the ground.

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “samÞu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426

Further reading
  • “sacht” in Duden online

Plautdietsch

Adjective

sacht

  1. slow
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