Nominal Forms
| Infinitive | sacīt |
| Negative Infinitive | nesacīt |
| Verbal Noun | sacīšana |
Indicative
Present
| Sg.1 | saku |
| Sg.2 | saki |
| Sg.3 | saka |
| Pl.1 | sakām |
| Pl.2 | sakāt |
| Pl.3 | saka |
Past
| Sg.1 | sacīju |
| Sg.2 | sacīji |
| Sg.3 | sacīja |
| Pl.1 | sacījām |
| Pl.2 | sacījāt |
| Pl.3 | sacīja |
Future
| Sg.1 | sacīšu |
| Sg.2 | sacīsi |
| Sg.3 | sacīs |
| Pl.1 | sacīsim |
| Pl.2 | sacīsit |
| Pl.3 | sacīs |
Imperative
| Sg.2 | saki |
| Sg.3 | lai saka |
| Pl.1 | sacīsim |
| Pl.2 | sakiet |
| Pl.3 | lai saka |
Conditional
| Present | sacītu |
| Past | būtu sacījis |
Renarrative
| Present | sakot |
| Past | esot sacījis |
| Future | sacīšot |
| Imperative | lai sakot |
Debitive
| Indicative | būt jāsaka |
| Conjunctive 1 | esot jāsaka |
| Conjunctive 2 | jāsakot |
Participles
| Present Active 1 | sakošs |
| Present Active 2 | sacīdams |
| Present Active 3 | sakot |
| Present Active 4 | sakām |
| Past Active | sacījis |
| Present Passive | sakāms |
| Past Passive | sacīts |
Etymology
1. From *sakīti, from Proto-Baltic *sek-, *sak-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sákīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to sniff out a trail, to chase, to look for”).
2. The meaning changes may have been: “to chase, to look for” > “to follow” > “to follow (with words, after what someone else said)” > “to say.”
3. Cognates include Lithuanian sakýti, Old Norse segja, German sagen (< *sokʷē-), Ancient Greek ἐν(ν)έπω (en(n)épō, “to narrate, to tell, to relate”) (< *en-sekʷ-), Latin inquam (“to say”). See: Old Norse '
segja', German, old spelling '
sagen', Latin '
inquam'.
Verbs referencing "sacīt"
English
say, Lithuanian
sakyti.