sacht

Meaning

Adj

gentle, soft

Adv

gently

Concepts

gently

slowly

softly

gentle

quiet

mild

peaceful

calm

quietly

secretly

slow

careful

soft

harmonious

Synonyms

langsam

sanft

leise

still

ruhig

friedlich

leicht

mild

sanftmütig

schweigsam

🔇

vorsichtig

zart

lammfromm

mit Vorsicht

gelassen

gemächlich

harmonisch

heimlich

㊙️

lautlos

Pronounced as (IPA)

/zaxt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German: sacht

Cognate with English: soft

In summary

16th c., borrowed from Low German sacht, sachte (“soft”), from Middle Low German sachte, from Old Saxon *sāfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samftī (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).
Doublet of sanft. Cognate with English soft.