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sitten

See also: Sitten

English edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.

Verb edit

sitten

  1. (archaic, UK dialectal) past participle of sit; alternative form of sat
    • 1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church:
      For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

Adjective edit

sitten (comparative more sitten, superlative most sitten)

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Seated.
    • a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155:
      The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.
    • c1560, A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38:
      He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.
  2. Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
    • 1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:
      Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English sitten, equivalent to sit +‎ -en.

Verb edit

sitten

  1. (obsolete) plural simple present of sit
    • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
      Such merimake holy saints doth queme,
      But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.
    • 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London: Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 64:
      This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.
    • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, Book I, Canto IV:
      While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes
      Or vitall vest of the lives generall,
    • 1738, Rev. John Whalley, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay,
      As wee these willows sitten here emong;

Anagrams edit

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

From siten, formed from se +‎ -ten; the t has doubled likely by contamination from dialectal siittä (which is se, stem si(i)- + -ttä, the same suffix as in että and jotta). Not related to Swedish sedan or Old English siþþan.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsitːen/, [ˈs̠it̪ːe̞n]
  • Rhymes: -itːen
  • Syllabification(key): sit‧ten

Adverb edit

sitten

  1. then (soon afterward; next in order of place)
    Ensin syödään, sitten jutellaan. ― First we eat, then we chat.
    Maksa sitten verelläsi! ― Then pay with your blood!
    Sitten voisimme puhua vaikka tästä. ― Next we could talk about this.
  2. when, (when)ever (with the conjunction kun)
    Sitten, kun jään eläkkeelle... ― When I retire...
    Lähdemme sitten, kun olet valmis. ― We’ll go whenever you’re ready.
    Sitten kun olet tehnyt läksysi, voimme katsella televisiota. ― When you have done your homework, we can watch the television.
  3. then, in that case
    No sitten ei ole mitään hätää. ― Well then it's not urgent.
  4. Used for emphasis, often without any additional meaning.
    ...tai sitten ei ― ...or not
    Puhutaan siitä sitten ensi kerralla. ― Let's just talk about it the next time around.
    1. used to emphasize or intensify questions
      entä sitten? ― so what?
      mitä sitten? ― then what?
      Oliko aiempi väitteesi sitten vain liioittelua? ― So was your earlier claim just an exaggeration?
    2. acts as an emphatic modifier for tahansa ... (-kin) expressions used to mean "whatever", "whoever"...
      Kenelle tahansa sen sitten annatkin, älä anna sitä minulle. ― Whomever you give it to, don't give it to me.

Postposition edit

sitten (+ nominative)

  1. ago
    tunti sitten ― one hour ago
    kolme vuotta sitten ― three years ago
    kauan sitten ― long ago
    pitkän aikaa sitten ― a long time ago

Preposition edit

sitten (+ genitive)

  1. since
    Emme ole tavanneet sitten viime vuoden.
    We haven't met since last year.

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

sitt +‎ -en (case suffix)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃitːɛn]
  • Hyphenation: sit‧ten

Noun edit

sitten

  1. superessive singular of sitt

Low German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German sitten, Old Saxon sittian.

Cognates
Cognate with Dutch zitten, German sitzen, English sit, West Frisian sitte, Danish sidde.

Verb edit

sitten (past singular seet, past participle seten, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to sit

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of sitten (class 5 strong verb)
infinitive sitten
indicative present preterite
1st person singular sitt seet
2nd person singular sitts(t) seets(t)
3rd person singular sitt(t) seet
plural sittt, sitten seten
imperative present —
singular sitt
plural sittt
participle present past
sitten (e)seten, geseten
Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.
  • The plural present indicative sittt is usually spelled sitt but also sitt't.

Usage note:

  • The conjugation given is for a dialect which merges all open-mid and close-open vowels and apocopates /ə/. As such it is lacking many distinctions which are grammatical in other dialects.

Basic forms in Münsterland:

  • infinitive: sitten ((to) sit)
  • third person singular present indicative: sitt (sits)
  • first and third person singular past indicative: satt (sat)
  • third person plural past indicative: sätten (sat)
  • past participle: siäten (sat)

References edit

  • G. Ungt: Twee Geschichten in Mönstersk Platt. Ossmanns Jans in de Friümde un Ossmanns Jans up de Reise. Münster, 1861.

Middle Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Old Dutch sitten.

Verb edit

sitten

  1. to sit, to be seated
  2. to sit down
  3. to settle (of a sore)
  4. to be located, to be present
  5. to reside, to live

Inflection edit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants edit

  • Dutch: zitten
  • Limburgish: zitte

Further reading edit

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

    Etymology tree

    Proto-Indo-European *sed-

    Proto-Indo-European *-yeti


    Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti


    Proto-Germanic *sitjaną


    Proto-West Germanic *sittjan


    Old English sittan


    Middle English sitten

    From Old English sittan.

    Verb edit

    sitten

    1. to sit

    Descendants edit

    References edit

    Old Dutch edit

    Etymology edit

    From Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

    Verb edit

    sitten

    1. to sit
    2. to be situated, to live

    Inflection edit

    This verb needs an inflection-table template.

    Derived terms edit

    Descendants edit

    Further reading edit

    • “sitten”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

    Old High German edit

    Verb edit

    sitten

    1. Alternative form of sizzen
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