schade

From Middle High German schaden, from Old High German scadōn, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþōn, from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną. Cognate with German schaden, English scathe, Icelandic skaða.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑdə/

schade (third-person singular simple present schadt, past participle gschadt, past subjunctive schadti, auxiliary haa)

1. To harm, hurt, damage.
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Ufrichtigkeit cha gwüß nüt schade.

     Sincerity certainly can't hurt.

   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):

     Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.

     Then we'll arrive a little earlier. It won't do any harm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: scha‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

From Middle Dutch schāde, from Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō, from Proto-Germanic *skaþô.

schade f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. damage, detrimental effect

   voorkom schade door alcohol bij uw opgroeiende kind ― prevent damage from alcohol in your growing child

• Negerhollands: skaade, schad, skaede

From Middle Dutch scade, from Old Dutch skado, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu.

schade f (plural schaden, no diminutive)

1. (dialectal, possibly obsolete) alternative form of schaduw (“shadow”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

schade

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of schaden

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːdə/

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

From Schade, the obsolete nominative singular of Schaden (“damage”). The sense “too good” from a conditional construction es wäre zu schade … (“it would be a pity to …”), but now usually construed with an indicative verb.

• schad (colloquial)

schade (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. a pity, a shame; bummer; unfortunate; disappointing

   Schade!

   What a pity!

   Das ist aber schade!

   That’s such a pity!

   Es ist zu schade, dass er nicht kommen konnte.

   It’s such a pity that he couldn’t make it.

2. (usually with zu) too good [with für ‘for something’; or with zu (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]

   Meine neuen Schuhe sind zu schade, um damit durch den Wald zu laufen.

   My new shoes are too good to wear them for a walk through the forest.

   Ich bin mir fürs Kloputzen nicht zu schade.

   I don’t consider myself too good to clean the loo.

• Schaden

• Mitleid
• Scham f

schade

1. inflection of schaden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• “schade” in Duden online
• “schade”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

From Old Dutch skatho, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō.

schāde m or f

2. A damage, injury, loss.
3. A harm, suffering.
4. A shame, pity (something regrettable).

• Dutch: schade
  • Afrikaans: skade
• Limburgish: sjaaj

From Old Dutch skado, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu.

schāde m or f or n

2. shadow, shade

• Dutch: schaduw

• “scade (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “scade (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schade (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old English sċeadu, from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skaduz; compare schadwe (from sċeaduwe, the accusative form of sċeadu).

Kentish Middle English ssed and forms with short vowels presumably continue Old English sċead n, though the latter could reflect levelling from schadwe.

• shad, shadde, shade
• scæde (Early Middle English)
• ssade (Southwest Midland); ssed (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːd(ə)/, /ʃad/

schade (plural schades)

1. A shadow; a dark image formed by blocking light.
   • 15th century, James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair:

     walking in the schade

     walking in the shade

2. A shade; the darkened region cast by a shadow.
3. (rare) Reflections present in water.
4. (rare, by extension) Darkness; absence of light.

• schaden

• nyȝtschade

• English: shade
  • → Portuguese: shade
  • → Middle Scots: schad, schade
    • Scots: shade
• Yola: shaade

• “shā̆de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 March 2018.

schade

1. alternative form of sched