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sätta

place, put, set, plant

Meaning

place; put; set; plant; compose

In Swedish: placera

Conjugation

Conjugation of sätta (place)
Infinitive	att sätta	to place
Present	sätter	jag sätter
Past	satte	jag satte
Supine	satt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har satt	jag har satt
Past perfect	hade satt	jag hade satt
Future	ska sätta	or: kommer att sätta
Conditional	skulle sätta	jag skulle sätta
Imperative	sätt!	a command
Present participle	sättande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	satt	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of sätta
Infinitive	sättas
Present	sätts
Past	sattes
Supine	satts

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 sätter. See the four verb groups explained.

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sätta in a sentence

hon satte blomkrukan i fönstret
she put the flower pot in the window
sätta lökar
set (plant) bulbs
Jag satte mig på stolen
I sat down on the chair
Sätt dig upp!
Sit up!
Jag sätter (placerar) fru Jansson mittemot herr Olsson
I'm going to seat Mrs Jansson facing Mr Olsson
Han satte klistermärket på armen
He put the sticker on his arm
Du kan sätta skålen på bordet
You can set the bowl on the table
Han satte svårighetsgraden till medium
He set the difficulty to medium

Expressions

sätta något i fråga
bring sth. into question
sätta livet till
give one's life
sätta bo
make a nest
sätta eld på
set fire to
sätta fart
get going

Words built with sätta

sättmaskin typesetting (composing) machine

Questions

What does sätta mean in English?

sätta means “place, put”.

What is the past tense of sätta?

The past tense of sätta is satte (“jag satte”). The supine is satt, used in “jag har satt”.

What is the present tense of sätta?

sätter, the same for every person: jag sätter, du sätter, vi sätter.

Similar words

plantera

Origin

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

Nearby common words

sätta is number 297 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

293kalla call, summon
294annat something else, another, something else
295leta look
296jo yes, sure, well
298flicka girl
299ingenting anything, nothing
300därför so, for that reason
301öppna open

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary