"besagen" meaning in All languages combined

See besagen on Wiktionary

Verb [German]

IPA: /bəˈzaːɡən/ Audio: De-besagen.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German besagen, from Old High German bisagēn. By surface analysis, be- + sagen. Cognate with English besay. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|besagen}} Middle High German besagen, {{inh|de|goh|bisagēn}} Old High German bisagēn, {{surface analysis|de|be-|sagen}} By surface analysis, be- + sagen, {{cog|en|besay}} English besay Head templates: {{de-verb|<only3sp>}} besagen (weak, third-person singular present besagt, past tense besagte, past participle besagt, auxiliary haben) Inflection templates: {{de-conj|<only3sp>}} Forms: besagt [present, singular, third-person], besagte [past], besagt [participle, past], haben [auxiliary], weak [table-tags], haben [auxiliary], besagen [infinitive], besagend [participle, present], besagt [participle, past], - [indicative, present, singular], - [indicative, plural, present], - [singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], - [plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], besagt [indicative, present, singular, third-person], besagen [indicative, plural, present, third-person], besage [singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], besagen [plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], - [indicative, preterite, singular], - [indicative, plural, preterite], - [singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], - [plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], besagte [indicative, preterite, singular, third-person], besagten [indicative, plural, preterite, third-person], besagte [formal, rare, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person], besagten [formal, plural, rare, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person], - [imperative, singular], - [imperative, plural], weak [table-tags], haben [auxiliary], - [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular], - [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural], - [multiword-construction, perfect, singular, subjunctive], - [multiword-construction, perfect, plural, subjunctive], hat besagt [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, third-person], haben besagt [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, third-person], habe besagt [multiword-construction, perfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], haben besagt [multiword-construction, perfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], - [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular], - [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural], - [multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, subjunctive], - [multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, subjunctive], hatte besagt [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, third-person], hatten besagt [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, third-person], hätte besagt [multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], hätten besagt [multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], besagen werden [future, future-i, infinitive, multiword-construction], - [future, future-i, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], - [future, future-i, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], werde besagen [future, future-i, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], werden besagen [future, future-i, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], - [future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular], - [future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural], - [future, future-i, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], - [future, future-i, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], wird besagen [future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person], werden besagen [future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, third-person], würde besagen [future, future-i, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person], würden besagen [future, future-i, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person], besagt haben werden [future, future-ii, infinitive, multiword-construction], - [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], - [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i], werde besagt haben [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], werden besagt haben [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, third-person], - [future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular], - [future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural], - [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], - [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii], wird besagt haben [future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person], werden besagt haben [future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, third-person], würde besagt haben [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person], würden besagt haben [future, future-ii, multiword-construction, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, third-person]
  1. to say, state, have it (said of texts or utterances, not of persons) Tags: weak Synonyms: sagen, darlegen
    Sense id: en-besagen-de-verb-NyggOu8W Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German terms prefixed with be-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 72 6 23 Disambiguation of German terms prefixed with be-: 35 29 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 7 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 6 10
  2. to mean, signify Tags: weak Synonyms: bedeuten, heißen
    Sense id: en-besagen-de-verb-IJ2R6QwM Categories (other): German terms prefixed with be- Disambiguation of German terms prefixed with be-: 35 29 36
  3. (obsolete, except adjectivally in besagt) to mention, note Tags: obsolete, weak Synonyms: erwähnen, nennen, angeben
    Sense id: en-besagen-de-verb-Xo2DMdfo Categories (other): German terms prefixed with be-, German verbs using haben as auxiliary Disambiguation of German terms prefixed with be-: 35 29 36 Disambiguation of German verbs using haben as auxiliary: 32 23 45

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "gmh",
        "3": "besagen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle High German besagen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "bisagēn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German bisagēn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "be-",
        "3": "sagen"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, be- + sagen",
      "name": "surface analysis"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "besay"
      },
      "expansion": "English besay",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle High German besagen, from Old High German bisagēn. By surface analysis, be- + sagen. Cognate with English besay.",
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    {
      "form": "besagt",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagte",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagt",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haben",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagend",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besage",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "rare",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "plural",
        "rare",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hat besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haben besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "habe besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haben besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hatte besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hatten besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hätte besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hätten besagt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagen werden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werde besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werden besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wird besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werden besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "würde besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "würden besagen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-i",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "besagt haben werden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werde besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werden besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-i",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wird besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "werden besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "würde besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "würden besagt haben",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "future-ii",
        "multiword-construction",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "subjunctive-ii",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "<only3sp>"
      },
      "expansion": "besagen (weak, third-person singular present besagt, past tense besagte, past participle besagt, auxiliary haben)",
      "name": "de-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "be‧sa‧gen"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<only3sp>"
      },
      "name": "de-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "72 6 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 29 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German terms prefixed with be-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 7 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 6 10",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Paragraph 2 specifically states that this course of action is ruled out.",
          "text": "Paragraph 2 besagt ausdrücklich, dass diese Vorgehensweise ausgeschlossen ist.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Legend has it that...",
          "text": "Die Legende besagt, dass...",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to say, state, have it (said of texts or utterances, not of persons)"
      ],
      "id": "en-besagen-de-verb-NyggOu8W",
      "links": [
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "have it",
          "have it"
        ]
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      "ipa": "/bəˈzaːɡən/"
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    }
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.