Preterite / Präteritum of the German verb sagen

The Preterite / Präteritum tense conjugations for the German verb sagen, along with their English translations.

Preterite / Präteritum This is more a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Perfekt is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
ich sagte	I said
du sagtest	you said
er sagte	he said
sie sagte	she said
wir sagten	we said
ihr sagtet	you said
sie sagten	they said

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