sætte

See also: saette

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, cognate with English set, German setzen. A causative of the verb *sitjaną (“to sit”) (Danish sidde).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛd̥ə]

Verb

sætte (past tense satte, past participle sat)

  1. to put, place, set
  2. to fix, stake
  3. to plant
  4. to suppose, posit

Conjugation
Inflection of sætte
present past
simple sætter satte
perfect har sat havde sat
passive sættes sattes
participle sættende sat
imperative sæt —
infinitive Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund sætten —

Derived terms

References
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