setzen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German setzen, from Old High German sezzen, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan. Cognate with Hunsrik setze, English set, Dutch zetten, and Yiddish זעצן (zetsn). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈzɛtsən/, [ˈzɛtsn̩] (Germany) IPA(key): /ˈsɛtsɛn/, [ˈsɛtsn̩] (Austria) Hyphenation: set‧zen === Verb === setzen (weak, third-person singular present setzt, past tense setzte, past participle gesetzt, auxiliary haben or sein) (transitive) causative of sitzen: to set; to put [auxiliary haben] sich zur Ruhe setzen ― to retire (reflexive, of a person) to sit down [auxiliary haben] (reflexive, of particles or contents) to settle (precipitate) [auxiliary haben] (transitive) to bet, wager [with auf (+ accusative) ‘on’] [auxiliary haben] (intransitive) to leap [with über (+ accusative) ‘over’] [auxiliary sein] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Setzen, Setzer, Setzerei, Setzung ==== Related terms ==== Satz === Further reading === “setzen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “setzen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “setzen” in Duden online “setzen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “setzen” in OpenThesaurus.de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “setzen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891 == Luxembourgish == === Etymology === From Middle High German setzen, from Old High German sezzen, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan. The past participle gesat and obsolete past tense sat (from attested Middle High German satte) may be unshifted relict forms (like tëschen); alternatively the cluster /t͡st/, which was rare in Middle High German, may have been assimilated to /tt/. Compare geschwat. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈzætsen/, [ˈzæ.t͡sən] === Verb === setzen (third-person singular present setzt, past participle gesat, auxiliary verb hunn) (transitive) to put, to place, to set (transitive) to plant (transitive) to typeset (reflexive) to sit down, to take a seat (reflexive) to settle ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (to plant): planzen ==== Derived terms ====