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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːtja/
Rhymes: -ɛːtja
(colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːta/

Verb

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setja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative setti, supine sett)

to put, to place [with accusative ‘something’, along with adverb or prepositional phrase ‘somewhere’]
Synonym: láta

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.
to decide, to determine, to resolve [with dative ‘for someone, often reflexive’ (optionally) and accusative ‘something’ and að (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]
Synonym: fastsetja

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.
(formal) to formally open [with accusative]
Synonym: opna formlega

Að setja fund.
To open a meeting.
to suppose
Synonym: gera ráð fyrir
to typeset [with accusative]
Synonym: prentsetja
(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.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Terms derived from the verb setja

bólusetja (“to vaccinate”)
illa settur (“badly off”)
sestur (“to have sitten down, to have pulled up a chair”, past participle of middle voice)
setja að einhverjum (“someone feels chilly”)
setja að einhverjum grát (“someone starts crying”)
setja að veði (to stake something; confer leggja að veði)
setja af (“to dismiss”)
setja á höfuðið (“to go bankrupt”)
setja á laggirnar (“to start off”)
setja á sig (“to memorize”)
setja á stofn (“to found, to establish”)
setja einhverjum fyrir eitthvað (“to assign something to someone, to assign a task to someone”)
setja einhverjum stólinn fyrir dyrnar (“to put an obstacle in someone's path”)
setja einhverjum úrslitakosti (“to give someone an ultimatum”)
setja einhvern inn (“to put someone in jail, to imprison”)
setja einhvern yfir eitthvað (“to put someone in charge of something”)
setja eitthvað á sig (“to put something on oneself”)
setja eitthvað fyrir sig (“to view something as an obstacle, to have scruples about something”)
setja fram bát (“to launch a boat”)
setja fund (“to open a meeting”)
setja hjá (“to pass over”)
setja hlið við hlið (“to juxtapose, to place side by side”)
setja inn (“to insert”)
setja í embætti (“to appoint temporarily to a post”)
setja í fisk (“to get a fish on the hook”)
setja lög (“to pass laws, to pass a law”)
setja saman (“to put together, to assemble”)
setja saman bók (“to write a book”)
setja sig úr færi, setja sig úr færi með eitthvað (“to lose an opportunity”)
setja sig út til að gera eitthvað (“to seize every opportunity to do something”)
setja upp hátíðarsvip (“to look self-important, to put on airs”)
setja upp hundshaus
setja upp húfu (“to put on a cap”)
setja upp leikrit (“to put on a play, to produce a play”)
setja upp verð (“to demand a price”)
setja upp þóknun (“to charge a fee”)
setja út á (“to find fault with, to critcize”)
setjast (“to sit down”)
setjast að einhvers staðar (“to settle down somewhere”)
setjast upp (“to sit up”)
setjast upp hjá einhverjum (“to install oneself in someone's house”)
settur (past participle)
vel settur (“well off”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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IPA^(key): /²sɛːça/, /²sɛçːa/

Verb

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setja (present tense set, past tense sette, past participle sett, passive infinitive setjast, present participle setjande, imperative set)

(transitive) causative of sitja: to set; to put
Eg set stolen her. ― I’ll put the chair here.

Derived terms

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References

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“setja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Causative of sitja. From Proto-Norse ᛊᚨᛏᛁᛞᛟ (satido) (1st singular past indicative), Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti.

Verb

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setja

(transitive) to seat, set, place, put
to drive [with accusative]
hann setti øxina í hǫfuð honum
he drove the axe into his (not his own) skull
to make, establish [with accusative]
Þeir vildu setja grið í milli konungs ok bonda
they wanted to make peace between the king and the peasants
to order, prescribe [with dative]
to settle [with dative]
(intransitive) to set off

Conjugation

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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)
	indicative		subjunctive
infinitive	setja
present participle	setjandi
past participle	settr
	present	past	present	past
1st person singular	set	setta	setja	setta
2nd person singular	setr	settir	setir	settir
3rd person singular	setr	setti	seti	setti
1st person plural	setjum	settum	setim	settim
2nd person plural	setið	settuð	setið	settið
3rd person plural	setja	settu	seti	setti
imperative	present
2nd person singular	set
1st person plural	setjum
2nd person plural	setið

Conjugation of *setja* — mediopassive (weak class 1)
	indicative		subjunctive
infinitive	setjask
present participle	setjandisk
past participle	sezk
	present	past	present	past
1st person singular	setjumk	settumk	setjumk	settumk
2nd person singular	sezk	settisk	setisk	settisk
3rd person singular	sezk	settisk	setisk	settisk
1st person plural	setjumsk	settumsk	setimsk	settimsk
2nd person plural	setizk	settuzk	setizk	settizk
3rd person plural	setjask	settusk	setisk	settisk
imperative	present
2nd person singular	sezk
1st person plural	setjumsk
2nd person plural	setizk

Descendants

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Icelandic: setja
Faroese: seta
Norn: seta
Norwegian Nynorsk: setja, setta
Elfdalian: settja, setta
Old Swedish: sætia, sættia
- Swedish: sätta
Old Danish: sætiæ, sættæ
- Danish: sætte
  - Norwegian Bokmål: sette
- Scanian: sæda
Gutnish: sätte

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