sit

See also: SIT, Sit, sít, šit, -sít, -šit, síť, šít, and шит

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sitten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sittan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from *set-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭt, IPA^(key): /sɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Verb

sit (third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (archaic, dialectal) sitten)

A painting of a man sitting.

1. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     He is so fair, without lease, he seems full well to sit on this.

   After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

2. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.

   I asked him to sit.

3. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.

   The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China.

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4. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
   • Bible, Numbers xxxii. 6

     And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.

5. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.

   I currently sit on a standards committee.

6. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.

   In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.

7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The calamity sits heavy on us.

8. To be adjusted; to fit.

   Your new coat sits well.

   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.

9. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.

   How will this new contract sit with the workers?

   I don’t think it will sit well.

   The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.

10. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.

    Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.

11. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.

    The dining room table sits eight comfortably.

    • 1899, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, sat%20me%20weary%20on%20a%20pillar's%20base%2C%20%2F%20And%20leaned%20against%20the%20shaft%22&f=false page 43:

      I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft

12. (US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.

    I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.

    I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.

13. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
14. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
    • Bible, Jer. xvii. 11

      The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.

15. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.

    I'm sitting for a painter this evening.

16. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
    • (Can we date this quote by Selden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits

    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      Sits the wind in that quarter?

Conjugation

• An obsolete form of the simple past is sate and of the past participle is sitten.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sit.

Synonyms

• (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported): be seated
• (move oneself into such a position): be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat
• (of an object: occupy a given position permanently): be, be found, be situated
• (be a member of a deliberative body):
• (be accepted): be accepted, be welcomed, be well received
• (to accommodate in seats): seat

Derived terms

Terms derived from sit (verb)

• besit
• sit around
• sit back
• sit by
• sit down
• sit for
• sit idly by

• sit in
• sit-in
• sit-inner
• sit in for
• sit in on
• sit on

• sit out
• sit shivah
• sit through
• sit tight
• sit up
• sit up with

Translations

of a person, be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported

• Afrikaans: sit (af)
• Albanian: ulem (sq)
• American Sign Language: H@BackFinger-FingerAcrossPalmDown-H@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown
• Arabic: جَلَسَ (ar) (jalasa)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܝܬܒ (ʼitev)

• Armenian: նստել (hy) (nstel)
• Assamese: বহ (boh)
• Asturian: sentar
• Azerbaijani: oturmaq (az), əyləşmək (az)
• Bashkir: ултырыу (ultırıw)
• Basque: eseri (eu)
• Belarusian: сядзе́ць impf (sjadzjécʹ)
• Bengali: বসা (bośa)
• Biatah Bidayuh: guru
• Bulgarian: седя́ (bg) impf (sedjá)
• Burmese: ထိုင် (my) (htuing)
• Catalan: seure (ca)
• Central Sierra Miwok: húŋ·e-
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 坐 (co⁵)

  Dungan: зуә (zuə)

  Mandarin: 坐 (zh) (zuò)

  Min Dong: 坐 (soi)

• Czech: sedět (cs) impf
• Danish: sidde (da)
• Dutch: zitten (nl)
• Esperanto: sidi
• Estonian: istuma (et)
• Faroese: sita
• Finnish: istua (fi)
• French: être assis m, être assise f, s’asseoir (fr)
• Galician: sentar (gl)
• Ge'ez: ነበረ (näbärä)
• Georgian: ჯდომა (ka) (ǯdoma)
• German: sitzen (de)

  Alemannic German: hocke

• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (sitan)
• Greek: κάθομαι (el) (káthomai)

  Ancient: ἕζομαι (hézomai), κάθημαι (káthēmai)

• Gujarati: બેસવું (besvũ)
• Hawaiian: noho
• Hebrew: יָשַׁב (he) (yasháv)
• Hindi: बैठना (hi) (baiṭhnā), बैठा होना (hi) (baiṭhā honā)
• Hungarian: ül (hu)
• Icelandic: sitja (is)
• Ido: sidar (io)
• Inari Sami: čokkáđ
• Indonesian: duduk (id)
• Irish: suigh
• Italian: sedere (it), essere seduto, sedersi (it)
• Japanese: 座る (ja) (すわる, suwaru) (anywhere), 腰掛ける (こしかける, koshikakeru) (on an object that have height such as a chair)
• Kalmyk: суух (suux)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kashubian: sedzec
• Kazakh: отыру (kk) (otyru)
• Khmer: អង្គុយ (km) (ʼɑngkuy)
• Korean: 앉다 (ko) (anda)
• Kumyk: олтурмакъ (olturmaq)
• Kyrgyz: отуруу (ky) (oturuu), олтуруу (olturuu), туруу (ky) (turuu)
• Lao: ນັ່ງ (nang)
• Latgalian: sēdēt
• Latin: sedeo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: sēdēt (lv)
• Lithuanian: sėdėti (lt)
• Low German: sitten (nds)
• Macedonian: седи impf (sedi)
• Malay: duduk
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: qagħad
• Maori: noho
• Marathi: बसणे (basṇe)
• Mazanderani: هنیشتن (hëništen)
• Mongolian: суух (mn) (suux)
• Navajo: sédá
• Ngarrindjeri: lewun
• Norwegian: sitte (no)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: сѣдѣти impf (sěděti)

• Ossetian: бадын (badyn)
• Persian: نشستن (fa) (nešastan)
• Polish: siedzieć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: estar sentado
• Quechua: samay, tiyay, chukuy
• Rapa Nui: noho
• Romanian: ședea (ro), așeza (ro)
• Romansch: seser, esser tschentà
• Russian: сиде́ть (ru) impf (sidétʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седети, сједјети, сједити impf

  Roman: sedeti (sh), sjedjeti, sjediti (sh) impf

• Sinhalese: වාඩිවෙනවා (wāḍiwenawā)
• Skolt Sami: išttâd
• Slovak: sedieť impf
• Slovene: sedeti impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sejźeś

  Upper Sorbian: sedźeć

• Spanish: sentarse (es), estar sentado
• Sundanese: calik
• Swahili: kukaa
• Swedish: sitta (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠛꠃꠣ (boua)
• Tagalog: umupo (tl)
• Tajik: нишастан (nišastan)
• Tamil: உட்கார் (ta) (uṭkār)
• Tatar: утырырга (tt) (utırırga)
• Telugu: కూర్చొను (te) (kūrconu)
• Thai: นั่ง (th) (nâng)
• Turkish: oturmak (tr)
• Turkmen: oturmak
• Ukrainian: сиді́ти impf (sydíty), сі́сти pf (sísty)
• Urdu: بیٹھنا (baiṭhnā), بیٹھا ہونا (baiṭhā honā)
• Uzbek: oʻtirmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngồi (vi)
• Waray-Waray: ling-kod
• Welsh: eistedd (cy)
• West Frisian: sitte
• Yagnobi: нидак (nidak)
• Yakut: олор (olor)
• Yiddish: זיצן (zitsn)
• Zazaki: niştiş
• Zealandic: zitte
• ǃXóõ: tshûu sg, ǃʻáã pl

move oneself into such a position

• American Sign Language: H@BackFinger-FingerAcrossPalmDown-H@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown
• Armenian: նստել (hy) (nstel)
• Basque: eseri (eu)
• Bengali: বসা (bośa)
• Breton: azezañ (br)
• Bulgarian: ся́дам (bg) impf (sjádam), се́дна pf (sédna)
• Burmese: ထိုင် (my) (htuing)
• Catalan: asseure's (ca)
• Czech: sednout (cs)
• Dutch: zitten (nl)
• Finnish: istuutua (fi)
• French: s’asseoir (fr)
• Friulian: sentâ, sentâsi
• Galician: sentarse
• German: sich setzen (de), sich hinsetzen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: καθίζω (kathízō)

• Irish: suigh
• Italian: sedersi (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: (anywhere) 座る (ja) (suwaru), (on an object that have height such as a chair) 腰掛ける (koshikakeru)
• Khmer: អង្គុយ (km) (ɑngkuy)
• Latin: consido
• Maltese: poġġa bilqiegħda
• Neapolitan: s'assettà
• Norwegian: sette seg
• Portuguese: sentar (pt), sentar-se
• Romanian: se așeza
• Romansch: seser
• Russian: сади́ться (ru) impf (sadítʹsja), сесть (ru) pf (sestʹ)
• Slovene: sesti, usesti se
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sednuś se

• Spanish: sentarse (es)
• Swahili: kuketi
• Swedish: sätta sig
• Thai: นั่ง (th) (nâng)
• Welsh: eistedd (cy)

of an object: occupy a given position permanently

• Armenian: նստել (hy) (nstel)
• Basque: eseri (eu)
• Estonian: püsima
• Finnish: seistä (fi), olla (fi), maata (fi)
• German: liegen (de)
• Japanese: ある (ja) (aru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: sitte (no)

  Bokmål: ligge (no)

• Russian: сиде́ть (ru) impf (sidétʹ)
• Spanish: asentarse (es)
• Swedish: sitta (sv), ligga (sv)

to be a member of a deliberative body

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出任 (zh) (chūrèn)

• Finnish: istua (fi)
• French: siéger (fr)
• German: sitzen (de), angehören (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: suigh
• Japanese: いる (ja) (iru)
• Spanish: pertenecer (es)
• Swedish: sitta (sv)

of an agreement or arrangement, to be accepted

• Finnish: sopia (fi)
• Japanese: 受け入れる (ja) (uke-ireru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: encajar (es)
• Swedish: välkomnas (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Aromanian: ^{(please verify)} şedu
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zitten (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sidi
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ზის (zis)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} duduk (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} seder
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} poġġi, ^{(please verify)} bilqegħda
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Northern Sami: ^{(please verify)} čohkkát
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} sitte (no)
• Novial:
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} نشستن (fa) (nešastan)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kukaa
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} sitta (sv)

See also

Terms combined with the verb to sit

• sit around
• sit back
• sit by
• sit down
• sit-in
• sit on it, sit on it and rotate, sit on it and rotate till it bleeds
• sit on one's hands

• sit on the fence
• sit out
• sit pretty
• sit through
• sit tight
• sit under
• sit up
• sit-upon

Noun

sit (plural sits)

1. (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
2. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

Translations

meditation event

• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• 'its, 'tis, -ist, IST, ITS, STI, TIS, TIs, is't, ist, it's, its, tis

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Afrikaans

Etymology

Formally from Dutch zitten (“to sit”), from Old Dutch *sitten, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną. Semantically from a merger of the former and related Dutch zetten (“to set, put”), from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, whence also Afrikaans set (chiefly in compounds). Both Germanic verbs are eventually from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Verb

sit (present sit, present participle sittende, past participle gesit)

1. (intransitive) to sit; to be in a sitting position (usually used with op, binne or in)
2. (intransitive) to sit; to sit down to move into a sitting position

   Sit asseblief.

   Please sit down.

3. (transitive) to place, to put

   Ek sit jou sleutels op die tafel.

   I am putting your keys on the table.

4. (transitive) to deposit

   Ek gaan al my geld in die bank sit.

   I am going to deposit all my money in the bank.

Usage notes

• Sit and its derivatives are usually more commonly used than plaas for their overlapping senses, but are sometimes considered less formal than plaas, especially in formal writing.

Synonyms

• (to deposit): deponeer, plaas
• (to place): neersit, plaas

Derived terms

• afsit
• neersit
• opsit
• sitplek

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Danish

Pronoun

sit n (common sin, plural sine)

1. (reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

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Gothic

Romanization

sit

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌹𐍄

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Karelian

Etymology

Related to Veps sid'.

Adverb

sit

1. here

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [s̠ɪt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [sit̪]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sit

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of sum (be)
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:23

     sit nomen tuum Deus Israhel benedictum in saecula (Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,)

References

• sit in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Latvian

Verb

sit

1. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular present indicative form of sist
2. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular present indicative form of sist
3. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural present indicative form of sist
4. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular imperative form of sist
5. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular imperative form of sist
6. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural imperative form of sist

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sit

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of sitja and sitta
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of sitja

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sytъ (“satiated, full”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *s(e)h₂tos, from *seh₂- (“to satiate”).

Adjective

sȉt (Cyrillic spelling си̏т, definite sȉtī, comparative sitiji)

1. sated, full

Declension

positive indefinite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sit	sita	sito
genitive		sita	site	sita
dative		situ	sitoj	situ
accusative	inanimate animate	sit sita	situ	sito
vocative		sit	sita	sito
locative		situ	sitoj	situ
instrumental		sitim	sitom	sitim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		siti	site	sita
genitive		sitih	sitih	sitih
dative		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)
accusative		site	site	sita
vocative		siti	site	sita
locative		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)
instrumental		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)

positive definite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		siti	sita	sito
genitive		sitog(a)	site	sitog(a)
dative		sitom(u/e)	sitoj	sitom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	siti sitog(a)	situ	sito
vocative		siti	sita	sito
locative		sitom(e/u)	sitoj	sitom(e/u)
instrumental		sitim	sitom	sitim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		siti	site	sita
genitive		sitih	sitih	sitih
dative		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)
accusative		site	site	sita
vocative		siti	site	sita
locative		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)
instrumental		sitim(a)	sitim(a)	sitim(a)

comparative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sitiji	sitija	sitije
genitive		sitijeg(a)	sitije	sitijeg(a)
dative		sitijem(u)	sitijoj	sitijem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	sitiji sitijeg(a)	sitiju	sitije
vocative		sitiji	sitija	sitije
locative		sitijem(u)	sitijoj	sitijem(u)
instrumental		sitijim	sitijom	sitijim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sitiji	sitije	sitija
genitive		sitijih	sitijih	sitijih
dative		sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)
accusative		sitije	sitije	sitija
vocative		sitiji	sitije	sitija
locative		sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)
instrumental		sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)	sitijim(a)

superlative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najsitiji	najsitija	najsitije
genitive		najsitijeg(a)	najsitije	najsitijeg(a)
dative		najsitijem(u)	najsitijoj	najsitijem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	najsitiji najsitijeg(a)	najsitiju	najsitije
vocative		najsitiji	najsitija	najsitije
locative		najsitijem(u)	najsitijoj	najsitijem(u)
instrumental		najsitijim	najsitijom	najsitijim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najsitiji	najsitije	najsitija
genitive		najsitijih	najsitijih	najsitijih
dative		najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)
accusative		najsitije	najsitije	najsitija
vocative		najsitiji	najsitije	najsitija
locative		najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)
instrumental		najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)	najsitijim(a)

Antonyms

• gladan
• (Croatia) lačan

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  sit.

Noun

sȋt m (Cyrillic spelling си̑т)

1. rush (genus Juncus)

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sytъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sít/

Adjective

sȉt (comparative bȍlj sȉt, superlative nȁjbolj sȉt)

1. sated, full

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Southern Ohlone

Noun

sit

1. tooth

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English shit.

Noun

sit

1. remnant

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Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish sitta.

Noun

sit

1. shit