Meaning

4 senses
  1. Cause, interest or account.

    For the sake of argument

    I hope you're right, for all our sakes!

    Sinn, Ziel

    причи́наpričína

  2. Purpose or end; reason.

    for old times' sake

    It's not worth risking your life for the sake of getting there a few minutes earlier.

    причи́наpričína, моти́вmotív, цельcelʹ

  3. The benefit or regard of someone or something.

    2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]

    Vorteil

    бла́гоblágo

    користьkorystʹ

  4. Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

Examples

265 sentences
  1. Do it for my sake.

    Зроби це заради мене. — deniko

    ruСделайте это ради меня. — sharptoothed

    deTu es mir zuliebe. — Manfredo

  2. Please don't go out after drinking sake.

  3. For your sake, I hope that doesn't happen.

  4. He quit smoking for the sake of his health.

  5. They stayed married for the sake of their children.

    ruОни оставались в браке ради своих детей. — odexed

    deZum Wohle ihrer Kinder ließen sie sich nicht scheiden. — dinkel_girl

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
benefit:
Русский
By meaning 3
cause, interest or account:
purpose or end; reason:
benefit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
cause, interest or account:
benefit:

Origin

From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal ac

From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).

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Forms

plural: sakes
Singularsake
Pluralsakes

regular

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • for the sake
  • the sake of
  • sake of his

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sake — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto