sagbar

German

Etymology

sagen +‎ -bar

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Adjective

sagbar (strong nominative masculine singular sagbarer, comparative (uncommon) sagbarer, superlative (uncommon) am sagbarsten)

  1. (uncommon, now often politics) sayable, effable
    Coordinate term: unsagbar
    • 2023 March 22, Stefan Reinecke, “Früher war mehr Atomkraft”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
      Der Sinn von R21 sei es, „die Diskurshoheit vom linksgrünen Milieu zurückzuerobern“, das allen vorschreiben wolle, was sagbar sei. Das klingt bei der AfD auch nicht viel anders.
      The goal of R21 [a conservative think tank] was to “claw back the control of the narrative from the eco-socialist milieu”, that wants to dictate what can be said. That sounds quite similar to the AfD.

Declension

  • Sagbare (noun)

Further reading

  • sagbar” in Duden online
  • sagbar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache