setja
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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 edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms edit
- (put): láta
- (determine): fastsetja
- (formally open): opna formlega
- (suppose): gera ráð fyrir
- (typeset): prentsetja
Derived terms edit
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 edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną. Akin to English set.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
setja (present tense set, past tense sette, past participle sett, passive infinitive setjast, present participle setjande, imperative set)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “setja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Causative of sitja. From Proto-Norse ᛊᚨᛏᛁᛞᛟ (satido) (1st singular past indicative), Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti.
Verb edit
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 edit
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 edit
- Icelandic: setja
- Faroese: seta
- Norn: seta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: setja, setta
- Elfdalian: settja, setta
- Old Swedish: sætia, sættia
- Swedish: sätta
- Old Danish: sætiæ, sættæ
- Gutnish: sätte
References edit
- “setja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press