Tag

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, masculine, strong) day (a 24-hour period)
2. (countable, masculine, strong) day (the period from midnight to the following midnight)
3. (countable, masculine, strong) day (the rotational period of a planet, moon or any celestial body (especially Earth))
4. (countable, masculine, strong) day, daylight (the period between sunrise and sunset when there is daylight)
5. (masculine, strong, uncountable) day, daylight, light (light from the Sun)
6. (figuratively, masculine, strong, uncountable) light (open view; a visible state or condition)
7. (masculine, strong, uncountable) day (the part of a day which one spends at work, school, etc.)
8. (figuratively, masculine, strong, uncountable) day (a specified time or period, considered with reference to the prominence or success (in life or in an argument or conflict) of a person or thing)
9. (countable, dated, masculine, strong) convention, congress (a formal assembly)
10. (masculine, strong) see Tage for plural-only senses

Intj

hello; (good) day

Concepts

day

tag

daytime

time

⌚

date

📅

period

daylight

diet

instant

man-day

minute

moment

noon

🕛

second

2nd

term

working hours

working time

day before

number of days

previous day

position of the sun

twenty-four hours

hours of work

Day

day

age

birthday

🎂

calendar day

days

epoch

era

eve

Synonyms

Zeit

⌚

Termin

📅

Datum

📅

Kalendertag

Tageszeit

vierundzwanzig Stunden

Epoche

Arbeitstag

Frist

Kost

🍽️

Laufzeit

Marke

Markierung

Moment

Nahrung

Sprungmarke

Tages

vorwärtsgehen

Werktag

zeigen

Zeitalter

Zeitpunkt

Zeitraum

Zeitraum von 24 Stunden

Vortag

Alltag

24 Stunden

am Tag(e)

Ära

aufwachen

besser werden

Dach

dämmern

Diät

Translations

giorno

jour

día

dia

dag

dia

dies

gün

μέρα

يوم

journée

jorn

ημέρα

Dialects

Zürich

tag

Fribourg

taag

Appenzell Innerrhoden

tag

Basel-Landschaft

daag

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taːk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: tac

Inherited from Old High German: tag

Cognate with Old Saxon: dag

Cognate with Old Dutch: dag

Cognate with Dutch: dag

Cognate with Afrikaans: dag

Cognate with Old English: dæġ

Cognate with English: day

Cognate with Western Frisian: dei

Cognate with Old Norse: dagr

Cognate with Icelandic: dagur

Cognate with Faroese: dagur

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: dag

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: dag

Cognate with Swedish: dag

Cognate with Danish: dag

Cognate with Yiddish: טאָג

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃

Cognate with Albanian: djeg

Cognate with Latin: foveō

Cognate with Ancient Greek: τέφρα

Cognate with Lithuanian: dãgas

Cognate with Russian: жечь

Cognate with Sanskrit: दहति

Cognate with German: Tag

Cognate with Latin: diēs

Borrowed from English: tag

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old High German tag
Middle High German tac
German Tag
Inherited from Middle High German tac, from Old High German tag, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-.
In earlier legal documents since Middle High German, Tag was frequently used in the meaning of “a fixed day for meeting, debate, or appointment,” which was associated with words like Reichstag, Landtag, later Ratstag, and tagen (“to hold a meeting”), etc.

Sentences

Lebe so als sei jeder Tag dein letzter , eines Tages wirst Du recht haben .

Live as if every day is your last, one day you will be right.

Melissa redet viel , wenn der Tag lang ist .

Melissa talks a lot when the day is long.

Wir stehen vor einem wichtigen und historischen Tag .

We are facing an important and historic day.

Am nächsten Tag trafen sich die beiden Kommandanten der amerikanischen U-Boote .

The next day, the two commanders of the American submarines met.

Am nächsten Tag folgten Joe Brown und Malcom Howells.

The next day Joe Brown and Malcolm Howells followed.