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)

  1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to put, to place something somewhere syn.
    Nennirðu að setja forritunarbókina mína á borðið?
    Could you put my programming book on the table?
  2. (ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody) syn.
    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.
  3. (transitive, governs the accusative, formal) to formally open syn.
    Að setja fund.
    To open a meeting.
  4. (ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) (for someone) to suppose (something) syn.
  5. (transitive, governs the accusative) to typeset syn.
  6. (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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb setja
  • 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 (reflexive, 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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną. Akin to English set.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²sɛçːɑ/

Verb

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

  1. to put, position
    Eg set stolen her. ― I'll put the chair here.

Derived terms

References

Old Norse

Etymology

Causative of sitja. From Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti.

Verb

setja

  1. (transitive) to seat, set, place, put
  2. (transitive, with accusative) to drive
    hann setti øxina í hǫfuð honum
    he drove the axe into his (not his own) skull
  3. (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
  4. (transitive, with dative) to order, prescribe
  5. (transitive, with dative) to settle
  6. (intransitive) to set off

Conjugation
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
  • Icelandic: setja
  • Faroese: seta
  • Norn: seta
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: sette
    Nynorsk: setja, setta
  • Old Swedish: sætia, sættia
    • Swedish: sätta
      • → Westrobothnian: sett’
  • Old Danish: sætiæ, sættæ
  • Westrobothnian: seti
  • Elfdalian: settja, setta
  • Gutnish: sätte
  • Scanian: sæda

References
  • setja in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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