Sache

From Middle High German sache, from Old High German sahha, from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.

Cognate with Bavarian Såch, German Low German Sake, Low German sake, Dutch zaak, Afrikaans saak, English sake, Danish sag, Swedish sak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaxə/, [ˈzäχə] (Standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaχɛ/ (Austria)
• Rhymes: -aχə
• Hyphenation: Sa‧che

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Sache f (genitive Sache, plural Sachen, diminutive Sächlein n or Sächelchen n)

1. matter, affair, case, question, issue

   beschlossene Sache ― done deal

   Die Polizei untersuchte die Sache ohne Ergebnis.

   The police investigated the matter with no result.

2. thing, object

   Da ist noch eine Sache.

   There's one more thing (for me to say).

3. (law) thing, piece of property

   bewegliche Sache ― movable property

   unbewegliche Sache ― immovable property

   • Sachen im Sinne des Gesetzes sind nur körperliche Gegenstände.^[1]

     Only corporeal objects are things as defined by law.

4. cause, action
5. subject, matter, business

   Das ist Privatsache.

   That's a private matter.

   • 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Schneeschmelze:

     »Das tut nichts zur Sache«, sagte die Frau.

     "That's got nothing to do with it," said the woman.

6. (chiefly in the plural, colloquial) kilometres per hour

   Er raste mit hundert Sachen um die Ecke.

   He raced around the corner at 100 per.

• → Greater Polish: zacha
• → Kashubian: zacha
• → Slovincian: zacha

• Ding
• Geraffel
• Zeug
• Gegenstand

• “Sache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Sache” in Duden online
• “Sache” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Sache”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaxə/

Sache f

1. plural of Sach

Sache

1. plural of Sach