No. 210 in Swedish
sade
"Sade" means "said" in English.
In a sentence
Han sade att han skulle komma senare.
He said that he would come later.
In this sentence, 'sade' is used as the past tense of 'säga', meaning 'to say', and indicates a reported speech.
När jag frågade vad som hände, sade han inget.
When I asked what happened, he said nothing.
Here, 'sade' is again the past tense of 'säga', but it is used to describe a situation where someone did not say anything.
Hon sade de orden med en konstig ton.
She said those words with a strange tone.
In this sentence, 'sade' shows the act of saying something and focuses on the manner in which the words were expressed.
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