sah

In a sentence

• Ich sah den Sonnenaufgang am Morgen.

  I saw the sunrise in the morning.

  Here, 'sah' is the simple past tense of 'sehen' (to see), indicating a completed action in the past.

• Er sah müde aus, als er ins Zimmer kam.

  He seemed tired when he entered the room.

  In this sentence, 'sah' is still the simple past tense of 'sehen', but it is part of the separable verb 'aussehen' (to seem/appear), implying an observable state or condition.

• Sah er den Fehler im Dokument?

  Did he see the mistake in the document?

  Here, 'sah' appears in a direct question, maintaining its meaning as the past form of 'sehen' (to see), used for past-tense interrogatives.