såga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sagha, equivalent to såg +‎ -a.

Cognate with Danish save, Norwegian Bokmål sage, Norwegian Nynorsk saga, sage, Faroese saga, Icelandic saga, Dutch zagen, Afrikaans saag, Saterland Frisian soagje, West Frisian seagje, German sägen, Vilamovian zaagia, Yiddish זעגן‎ (zegn), English saw, Finnish sahata, Esperanto segi, Latin secāre, Catalan segar, Franco-Provençal séyer, French scier, Friulian seâ, Italian secare, segare, Occitan segar, Portuguese segar, Romansch segar, sagear, sger, saer, sgiar, Spanish segar and Venetian segar, siegar.

Verb

såga (present sågar, preterite sågade, supine sågat, imperative såga)

  1. to saw, to cut something with a saw
  2. to make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw
  3. to criticize harshly, to pan
    Filmen sågades av kritikerna
    The movie was panned by the critics

Conjugation
Conjugation of såga (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive såga sågas
Supine sågat sågats
Imperative såga —
Imper. plural1 sågen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative sågar sågade sågas sågades
Ind. plural1 såga sågade sågas sågades
Subjunctive2 såge sågade såges sågades
Participles
Present participle sågande
Past participle sågad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References
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