schade
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
schade (plural schades)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “schade” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Alemannic German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German schaden, from Old High German scadōn, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþōn, from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną. Cognate with German schaden, English scathe, Icelandic skaða.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
schade (third-person singular simple present schadt, past participle gschadt, past subjunctive schadti, auxiliary haa)
- To harm, hurt, damage.
- 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:
- Ufrichtigkeit cha gwüß nüt schade.
- Sincerity certainly can't hurt.
- Ufrichtigkeit cha gwüß nüt schade.
- 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):
- Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.
- Then we'll arrive a little earlier. It won't do any harm.
- Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.
- 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈsxaː.də/
audio (Belgium) (file) audio (Netherlands) (file) - Hyphenation: scha‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch schāde, from Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō, from Proto-Germanic *skaþô.
Noun[edit]
schade f (uncountable)
- damage, detrimental effect.
- voorkom schade door alcohol bij uw opgroeiende kind ― prevent damage from alcohol in your growing child
Derived terms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
schade
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Schade, the obsolete nominative singular of Schaden (“damage”). The sense “too good to waste” from a conditional construction es wäre zu schade... (“it would be a pity to...”), but now usually construed with an indicative verb.
Alternative forms[edit]
- schad (colloquial)
Adjective[edit]
schade (indeclinable, predicative only)
- a pity; bummer; unfortunate; disappointing
- Schade!
- What a pity!
- Das ist aber schade!
- That’s such a pity!
- Es ist zu schade, dass er nicht kommen konnte.
- It's a pity that he couldn’t make it.
- (usually with zu) too good to waste
- Meine neuen Schuhe sind zu schade, um damit durch den Wald zu laufen.
- My new shoes are too good to wear them for a walk through the forest.
- Ich bin mir fürs Kloputzen nicht zu schade.
- I don’t consider myself too good for cleaning the loo.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
schade
- inflection of schaden:
Further reading[edit]
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō.
Noun[edit]
schāde m or f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Dutch skado, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu.
Noun[edit]
schāde m or f or n
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: schaduw
Further reading[edit]
- “scade (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “scade (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schade (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English sċeadu. Compare schadowe, from sċeaduwe, the accusative form of sċeadu.
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
schade (plural schades)
- A shadow or a similar effect.
- A shade or darkening.
- Darkness, absence of light
- Reflections present in water.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “shā̆de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
schade
- Alternative form of sched
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