sitta
Meaning
be seated (sitting); sit; be; act (serve) as; be placed (located); be fixed (fitted, kept in place); fit
In Swedish: vila på bakdelen med överkroppen upprätt; vila på en stol
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att sitta | to be seated |
|---|---|---|
| Present | sitter | jag sitter |
| Past | satt | jag satt |
| Supine | suttit | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har suttit | jag har suttit |
| Past perfect | hade suttit | jag hade suttit |
| Future | ska sitta | or: kommer att sitta |
| Conditional | skulle sitta | jag skulle sitta |
| Imperative | sitt! | a command |
| Present participle | sittande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | sutten | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | sittas |
|---|---|
| Present | sitts |
| Past | satts |
| Supine | suttits |
Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use sitter. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise sitta
1 / 2Yesterday I … (sitta). Which is the past tense?
sitta in a sentence
- sitta till bordssit down at the table
- sitta på stolenbe seated on the chair
- sitta i en fåtöljsit in an armchair
- sitta barnvaktbe babysitting
- den sittande regeringenthe government in power
- sitta i fängelsebe in prison
- sitta som ordförandeact as chairman
- stolpen sitter som bergetthe post just won't budge
Expressions
- sitta på huksquat
Words built with sitta
- sittplats seat
Questions
What does sitta mean in English?
sitta means “be seated (sitting), sit”.
What is the past tense of sitta?
The past tense of sitta is satt (“jag satt”). The supine is suttit, used in “jag har suttit”.
What is the present tense of sitta?
sitter, the same for every person: jag sitter, du sitter, vi sitter.
Where the course teaches it
Origin
From Old Swedish sitia, from Old Norse sitja, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.
Nearby common words
sitta is number 412 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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