säga

See also: saga, Saga, såga, sàga, sága, saĝa, sağa, sägä, sagą, Sagą, sąga, șaga, and șagă

Estonian

From Proto-Finnic *säkä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śäkä. Cognate with Mansi [script needed] (siɣ, “burbot”).

säga (genitive säga, partitive säga)

Inflection of säga (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)

säga (present säger, preterite sade or (colloquial) sa, supine sagt, imperative säg)

to say, to tell; to utter words
Kan du säga mig vad han gjorde igår?
Could you tell me what he did yesterday?

Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.

Conjugation of säga (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	säga		sägas
Supine	sagt		sagts
Imperative	säg		—
Imper. plural¹	sägen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	säger	sade, sa	sägs, säges	sades, sas
Ind. plural¹	säga	sade, sa	sägas	sades, sas
Subjunctive²	säge	sade, sa	säges	sades, sas
	Participles
Present participle	sägande
Past participle	sagd
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

The past tense forms sa and sas are somewhat informal.

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