Verb
set on fire (third-person singular simple present sets on fire, present participle setting on fire, simple past and past participle set on fire)
- (transitive) To cause to begin to burn.
- (figuratively, transitive) To arouse passionate feelings in.
- You set my heart on fire.
- simple past tense and past participle of set on fire
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Translations
cause to begin to burn
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: վառել (hy) (vaṙel), այրել (hy) (ayrel)
- Bulgarian: паля (bg) (palja), запалвам (bg) (zapalvam)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 焚燒 (fan4 siu1)
- Mandarin: 放火 (cmn) (fànghuǒ), 縱火 (cmn), 纵火 (cmn) (zònghuǒ) (formal)
- Min Nan: 放火 (nan) (pàng-hóe, pàng-hé), 放火燒 (nan) (páng-hóe-sio, páng-hé-sio)
- Czech: zapálit (cs)
- Finnish: sytyttää (fi)
- French: allumer (fr), enflammer (fr), embraser (fr)
- German: anzünden (de), entzünden (de)
- Hebrew: הצית (he) (hitsít), הדליק (he) (hidlík)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: incendiare (it), dare fuoco a (it)
- Japanese: 火を付ける (ja) ひをつける (ja) (hi o tsukeru), 着火する (ja) (chakka suru), 点火する (ja) (tenka suru), 放火する (ja) (hōka suru) (for arson)
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- Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 불을 지르다 (bureul jireuda)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: سووتاندن, ئاگرکردن
- Latin: incendō (la)
- Latvian: aizdedzināt (lv)
- Lithuanian: padegti (lt)
- Malay: bakar (ms)
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: podpalić (pl)
- Portuguese: queimar (pt), atear fogo (pt), incendiar (pt)
- Russian: поджечь (ru) (podžéčʹ), зажечь (ru) (zažéčʹ), запалить (ru) (zapalítʹ)
- Slovak: zapáliť (sk)
- Spanish: pegar fuego a (es), encender (es), alumbrar (es)
- Swedish: sätta eld på (sv), antända (sv), sätta i brand (sv)
- Telugu: తగులబెట్టు (te) (tagulabeTTu), మంటబెట్టు (te) (maMTabeTTu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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arouse passionate feelings in