Saft

See also: saft and SAFT

German

Etymology

From Middle High German saf, saft, from Old High German saf, from Proto-Germanic *sapą (“juice, sap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zaft/
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Noun

Saft m (genitive Safts or Saftes, plural Säfte)

(beverage) juice
(botany) sap
(zoology) fluid
(colloquial) power; electricity
(colloquial) agility; vitality; power
(slang, vulgar) sperm

Declension

Declension of Saft

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Saft	die	Säfte
genitive	eines	des	Saftes, Safts	der	Säfte
dative	einem	dem	Saft, Safte¹	den	Säften
accusative	einen	den	Saft	die	Säfte

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Derived terms

Terms derived from Saft

Descendants

Hungarian: szaft, zaft

Further reading

Saft in Duden online

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