absagte

In a sentence

• Er absagte das Meeting wegen Krankheit.

  He canceled the meeting due to illness.

  In this sentence, 'absagte' is the preterite (simple past tense) form of 'absagen', meaning 'to cancel'. It directly refers to the action of canceling an event or appointment.

• Weil sie keine Zeit hatte, absagte sie den Theaterbesuch.

  Because she had no time, she canceled the theater visit.

  Here, 'absagte' is used in a subordinate clause to describe the act of canceling attributed to the subject due to her unavailability.

• Das Konzert, das er absagte, wird nicht verschoben.

  The concert that he canceled will not be postponed.

  In this example, 'absagte' functions in a relative clause to provide additional information about the state of the concert being cancelled by 'he'.