Participles
| Present | seċġende |
| Past | (ġe)sæġd |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | seċġe |
| 2nd sing. | sæġst |
| 3rd sing. | sæġþ |
| 1st plur. | seċġaþ |
| 2nd plur. | seċġaþ |
| 3rd plur. | seċġaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | sæġde |
| 2nd sing. | sæġdest |
| 3rd sing. | sæġde |
| 1st plur. | sæġdon |
| 2nd plur. | sæġdon |
| 3rd plur. | sæġdon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | seċġe |
| 2nd sing. | seċġe |
| 3rd sing. | seċġe |
| 1st plur. | seċġen |
| 2nd plur. | seċġen |
| 3rd plur. | seċġen |
Past
| 1st sing. | sæġde |
| 2nd sing. | sæġde |
| 3rd sing. | sæġde |
| 1st plur. | sæġden |
| 2nd plur. | sæġden |
| 3rd plur. | sæġden |
Imperative
| Singular | saga; sæġe |
| Plural | seċġaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'secgan'
secgan,
Verbs similar to 'secgan'
asecgan,
ecgan,
lecgan,
mecgan,
secan,
sencgan,
sengan,
wecgan,
alecgan,
asecan,
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *saggjan.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian sedza, Old Saxon seggian, Old Dutch seggen, Old High German sagēn, Old Norse segja. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). See: Old Saxon '
seggian', Old Norse '
segja'.
Sample Sentences
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Hwȳ ne sæġdest þū þæt ǣr? (Why didn't you say that before?)
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Iċ seċġe simle sōþ. (I always tell the truth.)
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Ġesiehst þū! Iċ þē sæġde þæt hit riġnan wolde. (You see! I told you it was gonna rain.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
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Nū wylle wē ēac ēow secgan hū hē sume dæġ ēode tō þām godes temple mid þām godspellere Iohanne... (Now will we also tell you how on a certain day he went to God's temple with the evangelist John.)
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c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
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Þāðā hí noldon cuman to ðam giftum, ða sende hé eft, þus cweðende, "Secgað ðam gelaðodum, Efne, ic ġeġearcode mīne gōd, ic ofslóh mine fearras, and mine gemæstan fugelas, and ealle mine ðing ic ġearcode: cumað to þam giftum." (When they would not come to the marriage, he sent again, thus saying, "Say to those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my meats, I have slain my oxen and my fatted fowls, and have prepared all my things: come to the marriage.")
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late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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In ðā ilcan tīd wǣron in Ēastseaxna mǣġðe æfter Swiðhelme, bī þǣm wē ǣr beforan sǣġdon, tweġen cyningas Siġhere ⁊ Sebbe, þēah hē hēo Wulfhere Mercna cyninge underþēodde wǣren in hērnesse. (At this time there were two kings in the nation of the East-Saxons, Sighere and Sebbe, who came after Swithhelm, whom we have mentioned before, though they were subjects of Wulfhere, king of Mercia.)