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See also: saat and säät

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sāt, from Old High German sāt, from Proto-West Germanic *sādi, from Proto-Germanic *sēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *sētis-, *seh₁tis, from *seh₁- (“to sow”).

Compare English seed, Low German Saad, Hunsrik Soot, Dutch zaad, Danish sæd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zaːt/ (Standard)
IPA^(key): /saːt/, [saːd̥] (Austria)
Rhymes: -aːt
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)
Homophone: saht

Noun

Saat f (genitive Saat, plural Saaten)

seed
Synonym: Samen
sowing
crop

Declension

Declension of Saat [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Saat	die	Saaten
genitive	einer	der	Saat	der	Saaten
dative	einer	der	Saat	den	Saaten
accusative	eine	die	Saat	die	Saaten

Derived terms

Further reading

“Saat” in Duden online
“Saat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Saat