"setja" meaning in Icelandic

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to vaccinate",
      "word": "bólusetja"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put something on oneself",
      "word": "setja eitthvað á sig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to open a meeting",
      "word": "setja fund"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to pass laws, to pass a law",
      "word": "setja lög"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to give somebody an ultimatum",
      "word": "setja einhverjum úrslitakosti"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to sit down",
      "word": "setjast"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to sit up",
      "word": "setjast upp"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to settle down somewhere",
      "word": "setjast að einhvers staðar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to install oneself in somebody's house",
      "word": "setjast upp hjá einhverjum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "past participle of middle voice, to have sitten down, to have pulled up a chair",
      "word": "sestur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ],
      "word": "settur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "well off",
      "word": "vel settur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "badly off",
      "word": "illa settur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to found, to establish",
      "word": "setja á stofn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to memorize",
      "word": "setja á sig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to go bankrupt",
      "word": "setja á höfuðið"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to start off",
      "word": "setja á laggirnar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "to stake something; confer leggja að veði",
      "word": "setja að veði"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "somebody feels chilly",
      "word": "setja að einhverjum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "somebody starts crying",
      "word": "setja að einhverjum grát"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to dismiss",
      "word": "setja af"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to launch a boat",
      "word": "setja fram bát"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to lose an opportunity",
      "word": "setja sig úr færi setja sig úr færi með eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to view something as an obstacle, to have scruples about something",
      "word": "setja eitthvað fyrir sig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to assign something to somebody, to assign a task to somebody",
      "word": "setja einhverjum fyrir eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put an obstacle in somebody's path",
      "word": "setja einhverjum stólinn fyrir dyrnar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to pass over",
      "word": "setja hjá"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to appoint temporarily to a post",
      "word": "setja í embætti"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to get a fish on the hook",
      "word": "setja í fisk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to insert",
      "word": "setja inn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put somebody in jail, to imprison",
      "word": "setja einhvern inn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put together, to assemble",
      "word": "setja saman"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to write a book",
      "word": "setja saman bók"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to demand a price",
      "word": "setja upp verð"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to charge a fee",
      "word": "setja upp þóknun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put on a cap",
      "word": "setja upp húfu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to look self-important, to put on airs",
      "word": "setja upp hátíðarsvip"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put on a play, to produce a play",
      "word": "setja upp leikrit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to find fault with, to critcize",
      "word": "setja út á"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to seize every opportunity to do something",
      "word": "setja sig út til að gera eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to put somebody in charge of something",
      "word": "setja einhvern yfir eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to juxtapose, to place side by side",
      "word": "setja hlið við hlið"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "setja upp hundshaus"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "non",
        "3": "setja"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse setja",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*satjaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *satjaną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "setti",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sett",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{33}}}",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
        "6": "setti",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{22}}}",
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      },
      "expansion": "setja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative setti, supine sett)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Could you put my programming book on the table?",
          "text": "Nennirðu að setja forritunarbókina mína á borðið?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "God is like a dreamcatcher that you put in the window.",
          "text": "Guð er eins og draumafangari sem maður setur í gluggann.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to put, to place something somewhere"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-qVPKQiNb",
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to put, to place something somewhere"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 3 0 2 4 9",
          "sense": "put",
          "word": "láta"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He was determined to lose weight.",
          "text": "Hann setti sér það markmið að grennast.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We decided to solve all the problems before the examination.",
          "text": "Við settum okkur að leysa öll dæmin fyrir prófið.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody)"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-Asp0VnHS",
      "links": [
        [
          "fix",
          "fix"
        ],
        [
          "determine",
          "determine"
        ],
        [
          "decide",
          "decide"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 78 1 5 5 5",
          "sense": "determine",
          "word": "fastsetja"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "ditransitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "To open a meeting.",
          "text": "Að setja fund."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to formally open"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-tnYB898d",
      "links": [
        [
          "open",
          "open"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative, formal) to formally open"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 99 0 0 0",
          "sense": "formally open",
          "word": "opna formlega"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "(for someone) to suppose (something)"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-ntb2In6B",
      "links": [
        [
          "suppose",
          "suppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) (for someone) to suppose (something)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 0 89 3 2",
          "sense": "suppose",
          "word": "gera ráð fyrir"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "ditransitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to typeset"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-ghymKGgt",
      "links": [
        [
          "typeset",
          "typeset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to typeset"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 0 2 90 4",
          "sense": "typeset",
          "word": "prentsetja"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 5 2 2 3 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 2 1 1 1 35 12 2 1 1 38 1 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 26 26 2 2 2 27 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How about we see what happens?",
          "text": "Eigum við ekki að sjá hvað setur?"
        },
        {
          "english": "I couldn't speak after the phone call.",
          "text": "Mig setti hljóða eftir símtalið."
        },
        {
          "english": "I felt cold.",
          "text": "Það sótti að mér kulda."
        },
        {
          "english": "He began crying immensely upon remembering his deceased wife.",
          "text": "Þegar hann minntist látinnar konu sinnar setti að honum ákafan grát."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "used in set phrases"
      ],
      "id": "en-setja-is-verb-5Ld2Hu2d",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(impersonal) used in set phrases"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "impersonal",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːtja/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛːtja"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːta/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "setja"
}

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    "Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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    "Most used Icelandic verbs",
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    "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Norse",
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    "Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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    "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛːtja",
    "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛːtja/2 syllables"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "to vaccinate",
      "word": "bólusetja"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put something on oneself",
      "word": "setja eitthvað á sig"
    },
    {
      "english": "to open a meeting",
      "word": "setja fund"
    },
    {
      "english": "to pass laws, to pass a law",
      "word": "setja lög"
    },
    {
      "english": "to give somebody an ultimatum",
      "word": "setja einhverjum úrslitakosti"
    },
    {
      "english": "to sit down",
      "word": "setjast"
    },
    {
      "english": "to sit up",
      "word": "setjast upp"
    },
    {
      "english": "to settle down somewhere",
      "word": "setjast að einhvers staðar"
    },
    {
      "english": "to install oneself in somebody's house",
      "word": "setjast upp hjá einhverjum"
    },
    {
      "english": "past participle of middle voice, to have sitten down, to have pulled up a chair",
      "word": "sestur"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ],
      "word": "settur"
    },
    {
      "english": "well off",
      "word": "vel settur"
    },
    {
      "english": "badly off",
      "word": "illa settur"
    },
    {
      "english": "to found, to establish",
      "word": "setja á stofn"
    },
    {
      "english": "to memorize",
      "word": "setja á sig"
    },
    {
      "english": "to go bankrupt",
      "word": "setja á höfuðið"
    },
    {
      "english": "to start off",
      "word": "setja á laggirnar"
    },
    {
      "roman": "to stake something; confer leggja að veði",
      "word": "setja að veði"
    },
    {
      "english": "somebody feels chilly",
      "word": "setja að einhverjum"
    },
    {
      "english": "somebody starts crying",
      "word": "setja að einhverjum grát"
    },
    {
      "english": "to dismiss",
      "word": "setja af"
    },
    {
      "english": "to launch a boat",
      "word": "setja fram bát"
    },
    {
      "english": "to lose an opportunity",
      "word": "setja sig úr færi setja sig úr færi með eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "english": "to view something as an obstacle, to have scruples about something",
      "word": "setja eitthvað fyrir sig"
    },
    {
      "english": "to assign something to somebody, to assign a task to somebody",
      "word": "setja einhverjum fyrir eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put an obstacle in somebody's path",
      "word": "setja einhverjum stólinn fyrir dyrnar"
    },
    {
      "english": "to pass over",
      "word": "setja hjá"
    },
    {
      "english": "to appoint temporarily to a post",
      "word": "setja í embætti"
    },
    {
      "english": "to get a fish on the hook",
      "word": "setja í fisk"
    },
    {
      "english": "to insert",
      "word": "setja inn"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put somebody in jail, to imprison",
      "word": "setja einhvern inn"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put together, to assemble",
      "word": "setja saman"
    },
    {
      "english": "to write a book",
      "word": "setja saman bók"
    },
    {
      "english": "to demand a price",
      "word": "setja upp verð"
    },
    {
      "english": "to charge a fee",
      "word": "setja upp þóknun"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put on a cap",
      "word": "setja upp húfu"
    },
    {
      "english": "to look self-important, to put on airs",
      "word": "setja upp hátíðarsvip"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put on a play, to produce a play",
      "word": "setja upp leikrit"
    },
    {
      "english": "to find fault with, to critcize",
      "word": "setja út á"
    },
    {
      "english": "to seize every opportunity to do something",
      "word": "setja sig út til að gera eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "english": "to put somebody in charge of something",
      "word": "setja einhvern yfir eitthvað"
    },
    {
      "english": "to juxtapose, to place side by side",
      "word": "setja hlið við hlið"
    },
    {
      "word": "setja upp hundshaus"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "setja"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*satjaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *satjaną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "setti",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sett",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
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        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
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  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "Icelandic terms with usage examples",
        "Icelandic transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Could you put my programming book on the table?",
          "text": "Nennirðu að setja forritunarbókina mína á borðið?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "God is like a dreamcatcher that you put in the window.",
          "text": "Guð er eins og draumafangari sem maður setur í gluggann.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to put, to place something somewhere"
      ],
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          "put",
          "put"
        ],
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          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to put, to place something somewhere"
      ],
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        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "He was determined to lose weight.",
          "text": "Hann setti sér það markmið að grennast.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We decided to solve all the problems before the examination.",
          "text": "Við settum okkur að leysa öll dæmin fyrir prófið.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fix",
          "fix"
        ],
        [
          "determine",
          "determine"
        ],
        [
          "decide",
          "decide"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) to fix (something for somebody), to determine (something regarding somebody), to decide (something for somebody)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "ditransitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic formal terms",
        "Icelandic transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "To open a meeting.",
          "text": "Að setja fund."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to formally open"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "open",
          "open"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative, formal) to formally open"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic ditransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(for someone) to suppose (something)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suppose",
          "suppose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive, governs the accusative, dative) (for someone) to suppose (something)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "ditransitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to typeset"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typeset",
          "typeset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to typeset"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic impersonal verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How about we see what happens?",
          "text": "Eigum við ekki að sjá hvað setur?"
        },
        {
          "english": "I couldn't speak after the phone call.",
          "text": "Mig setti hljóða eftir símtalið."
        },
        {
          "english": "I felt cold.",
          "text": "Það sótti að mér kulda."
        },
        {
          "english": "He began crying immensely upon remembering his deceased wife.",
          "text": "Þegar hann minntist látinnar konu sinnar setti að honum ákafan grát."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "used in set phrases"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(impersonal) used in set phrases"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "impersonal",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːtja/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛːtja"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛːta/",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "put",
      "word": "láta"
    },
    {
      "sense": "determine",
      "word": "fastsetja"
    },
    {
      "sense": "formally open",
      "word": "opna formlega"
    },
    {
      "sense": "suppose",
      "word": "gera ráð fyrir"
    },
    {
      "sense": "typeset",
      "word": "prentsetja"
    }
  ],
  "word": "setja"
}