setja
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛːtja/
- Rhymes: -ɛːtja
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈsɛːta/
Verb
setja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative setti, supine sett)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to put, to place something somewhere
- Nennirðu að setja forritunarbókina mína á borðið?
- Could you put my programming book on the table?
- Guð er eins og draumafangari sem maður setur í gluggann.
- God is like a dreamcatcher that you put in the window.
- (ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody)
- Hann setti sér það markmið að grennast.
- He was determined to lose weight.
- Við settum okkur að leysa öll dæmin fyrir prófið.
- We decided to solve all the problems before the examination.
- (transitive, governs the accusative, formal) to formally open
- Að setja fund.
- To open a meeting.
- Að setja fund.
- (ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) (for someone) to suppose (something)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to typeset
- (impersonal) used in set phrases
- Eigum við ekki að sjá hvað setur?
- How about we see what happens?
- Mig setti hljóða eftir símtalið.
- I couldn't speak after the phone call.
- Það sótti að mér kulda.
- I felt cold.
- Þegar hann minntist látinnar konu sinnar setti að honum ákafan grát.
- He began crying immensely upon remembering his deceased wife.
- Eigum við ekki að sjá hvað setur?
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- (put): láta
- (determine): fastsetja
- (formally open): opna formlega
- (suppose): gera ráð fyrir
- (typeset): prentsetja
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb setja
- bólusetja (“to vaccinate”)
- setja eitthvað á sig (“to put something on oneself”)
- setja fund (“to open a meeting”)
- setja lög (“to pass laws, to pass a law”)
- setja einhverjum úrslitakosti (“to give somebody an ultimatum”)
- setjast (“to sit down”)
- setjast upp (to sit up)
- setjast að einhvers staðar (to settle down somewhere)
- setjast upp hjá einhverjum (to install oneself in somebody's house)
- sestur (past participle of middle voice, to have sitten down, to have pulled up a chair)
- settur (past participle)
- vel settur (well off)
- illa settur (badly off)
- setja á stofn (to found, to establish)
- setja á sig (to memorize)
- setja á höfuðið (to go bankrupt)
- setja á laggirnar (to start off)
- setja að veði (to stake something; confer leggja að veði)
- setja að einhverjum (somebody feels chilly)
- setja að einhverjum grát (somebody starts crying)
- setja af (to dismiss)
- setja fram bát (to launch a boat)
- setja sig úr færi setja sig úr færi með eitthvað (to lose an opportunity)
- setja eitthvað fyrir sig (to view something as an obstacle, to have scruples about something)
- setja einhverjum fyrir eitthvað (to assign something to somebody, to assign a task to somebody)
- setja einhverjum stólinn fyrir dyrnar (to put an obstacle in somebody's path)
- setja hjá (to pass over)
- setja í embætti (to appoint temporarily to a post)
- setja í fisk (to get a fish on the hook)
- setja inn (to insert)
- setja einhvern inn (to put somebody in jail, to imprison)
- setja saman (to put together, to assemble)
- setja saman bók (to write a book)
- setja upp verð (to demand a price)
- setja upp þóknun (to charge a fee)
- setja upp húfu (to put on a cap)
- setja upp hátíðarsvip (to look self-important, to put on airs)
- setja upp leikrit (to put on a play, to produce a play)
- setja út á (to find fault with, to critcize)
- setja sig út til að gera eitthvað (to seize every opportunity to do something)
- setja einhvern yfir eitthvað (to put somebody in charge of something)
- setja hlið við hlið (to juxtapose, to place side by side)
- setja upp hundshaus
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²sɛçːɑ/
Verb
setja (present tense set, past tense sette, past participle sett, passive infinitive setjast, present participle setjande, imperative set)
Derived terms
- omsetja
- setja etter
References
- “setja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
Causative of sitja. From Proto-Norse ᛊᚨᛏᛁᛞᛟ (satido) (1st singular past indicative), Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti.
Verb
setja
- (transitive) to seat, set, place, put
- (transitive, with accusative) to drive
- hann setti øxina í hǫfuð honum
- he drove the axe into his (not his own) skull
- (transitive, with accusative) to make, establish
- Þeir vildu setja grið í milli konungs ok bonda
- they wanted to make peace between the king and the peasants
- (transitive, with dative) to order, prescribe
- (transitive, with dative) to settle
- (intransitive) to set off
Conjugation
Note that sett- in the past indicative is a specifically West Norse (Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk and Faroese) innovation; East Norse (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål) retains original satt-.
Conjugation of setja — active (weak class 1)
| infinitive | setja | |
|---|---|---|
| present participle | setjandi | |
| past participle | settr | |
| indicative | present | past |
| 1st-person singular | set | setta |
| 2nd-person singular | setr | settir |
| 3rd-person singular | setr | setti |
| 1st-person plural | setjum | settum |
| 2nd-person plural | setið | settuð |
| 3rd-person plural | setja | settu |
| subjunctive | present | past |
| 1st-person singular | setja | setta |
| 2nd-person singular | setir | settir |
| 3rd-person singular | seti | setti |
| 1st-person plural | setim | settim |
| 2nd-person plural | setið | settið |
| 3rd-person plural | seti | setti |
| imperative | present | |
| 2nd-person singular | set | |
| 1st-person plural | setjum | |
| 2nd-person plural | setið | |
Conjugation of setja — mediopassive (weak class 1)
| infinitive | setjask | |
|---|---|---|
| present participle | setjandisk | |
| past participle | sezk | |
| indicative | present | past |
| 1st-person singular | setjumk | settumk |
| 2nd-person singular | sezk | settisk |
| 3rd-person singular | sezk | settisk |
| 1st-person plural | setjumsk | settumsk |
| 2nd-person plural | setizk | settuzk |
| 3rd-person plural | setjask | settusk |
| subjunctive | present | past |
| 1st-person singular | setjumk | settumk |
| 2nd-person singular | setisk | settisk |
| 3rd-person singular | setisk | settisk |
| 1st-person plural | setimsk | settimsk |
| 2nd-person plural | setizk | settizk |
| 3rd-person plural | setisk | settisk |
| imperative | present | |
| 2nd-person singular | sezk | |
| 1st-person plural | setjumsk | |
| 2nd-person plural | setizk | |
Descendants
References
- “setja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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