SENde

Sende is a term used in several Germanic languages, most often as a verb meaning to send or transmit. Its exact form and usage vary by language, but the core idea remains dispatching something to another place or person, or transmitting information.

In Norwegian and Danish, sende is the infinitive form meaning to send. Norwegian examples include jeg sender (I am sending), jeg sendte (I sent), and jeg har sendt (I have sent); the imperative form is send!. Danish uses at sende with comparable conjugations, such as jeg sender and jeg sendte, depending on tense. These languages routinely distinguish tense and aspect in everyday speech through specific endings.

In German, the commonly used verb is senden rather than senden; however, sende appears as a verb form in specific moods or tenses. The present indicative for ich sende is standard, and er/sie sendet is used for third-person singular. The form sende exists in the Konjunktiv I (reported speech) as er sende, and it can appear as an imperative form in older or emphatic contexts, such as Sende mir die Unterlagen. In practice, many German speakers prefer senden or the more colloquial schicken for “send.”

As a noun in German, die Sende is relatively uncommon today and tends to occur in older or technical texts, where it can refer to a transmission or broadcast facility. More common nouns for media contexts are Sendung (program, broadcast) and Sender (broadcaster).

Etymologically, sende derives from the Germanic root linked to the verb sendan, related to the English send. Related forms appear across other Germanic languages, reflecting a shared lineage in meaning: to dispatch, to transmit, or to broadcast.