saugen
See also: säugen
German
Etymology
From Middle High German sūgen, from Old High German sūgan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūgan, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą, from Proto-Indo-European *sewk-. The sense “be inferior or objectionable”, which was never common and always somewhat jocular or tongue-in-cheek, is a semantic loan from English suck in the same sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈzaʊ̯ɡn̩], [-ɡŋ̩]
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑɔ̯ɡn̩/, [-ɡŋ̩] (Austria)
Audio (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sau‧gen
Verb
saugen (weak or class 2 strong, third-person singular present saugt, past tense saugte or sog, past participle gesaugt or gesogen, past subjunctive söge, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to suck (to create underpressure with a tube-like object such as one's mouth)
- an etwas saugen ― to suck on something
- (transitive) to suck (something)
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of staubsaugen (“to vacuum”).
- (colloquial, transitive, Internet) to download something, especially illegally
- Synonym: herunterladen
- 2005, Inga Köhler, Untersuchung der aktuellen Lage des deutschen Filmmarktes unter Berücksichtigung der amerikanischen und europäischen Filmwirtschaft, Diplomica, →ISBN, page 100:
- Wir verzeichnen einen starken Rückgang bei den Besucherschichten zwischen 14 und 25 Jahren; diese kommen schon mit ihren Handygebühren wegen des SMS-Umgangs nicht klar, und da das Geld fehlt, werden die Filme im Internet gesaugt.
- We are seeing a sharp decline in visitors between the ages of 14 and 25; they already can't cope with their cell phone charges because of text messaging, and since they have no money, the movies are (illegally) downloaded on the Internet.
- (dated slang, intransitive) to suck (to be inferior or objectionable)
- Das saugt total. ― This totally sucks.
Conjugation
| infinitive | saugen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | saugend | ||||
| past participle | gesaugt gesogen | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich sauge | wir saugen | i | ich sauge | wir saugen |
| du saugst | ihr saugt | du saugest | ihr sauget | ||
| er saugt | sie saugen | er sauge | sie saugen | ||
| preterite | ich saugte ich sog |
wir saugten wir sogen |
ii | ich söge1 | wir sögen1 |
| du saugtest du sogst |
ihr saugtet ihr sogt |
du sögest1 du sögst1 |
ihr söget1 ihr sögt1 | ||
| er saugte er sog |
sie saugten sie sogen |
er söge1 | sie sögen1 | ||
| imperative | saug (du) sauge (du) |
saugt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Related terms
- Saugpumpe, Saugmotor, Saugnapf
- ansaugen, absaugen
- staubsaugen, Staubsauger
- säugen
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