English
Verb
sit down (third-person singular simple present sits down , present participle sitting down , simple past and past participle sat down )
( intransitive ) To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
Sit down ! We have work to do.
( transitive or reflexive ) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
1843 , Thomas Carlyle , Past and Present , book 2, ch. 6 Monk Samson:
Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me.
1922 , A. E. Housman , Astronomy , lines 3-4:
Oh I will sit me down and weep / For bones in Africa.
( figurative ) To meet formally at a conference table.
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash , “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli ”, in The Guardian Weekly , volume 189 , number 6, page 18 :Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
To assume a low or sunken position.
The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough.
As we all climbed aboard, the little boat sat down low in the water.
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to assume a sitting position from a standing position
Abkhaz: атәара ( atʷʼara )
Ainu: ア ( a )
Arabic: جَلَسَ (ar) ( jalasa ) , قَعَدَ (ar) ( qaʕada )
Egyptian Arabic: قعد ( ʾaʕad )
Armenian: նստել (hy) ( nstel )
Azerbaijani: oturmaq (az)
Basque: eseri (eu)
Belarusian: садзі́цца impf ( sadzícca ) , се́сці pf ( sjésci )
Bulgarian: ся́дам (bg) impf ( sjádam ) , се́дна pf ( sédna )
Burmese: ထိုင် (my) ( htuing )
Catalan: asseure's (ca)
Cherokee: ᏦᏞᏍᏗ ( tsotlesdi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 坐低 ( co5 dai1 )
Mandarin: 坐下 (zh) ( zuòxià ) , 坐 (zh) ( zuò )
Czech: posadit (cs) se, sednout si (cs)
Dutch: gaan zitten
Esperanto: sidiĝi
Finnish: istuutua (fi)
French: s’asseoir (fr)
Galician: sentarse
Georgian: დაჯდომა ( daǯdoma )
German: sich setzen (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 ( gasitan )
Greek:
Ancient: καθίζω ( kathízō )
Haitian Creole: chita
Hebrew: התיישב ( hityashév )
Hindi: बैठना (hi) ( baiṭhnā )
Hungarian: leül (hu)
Ido: sideskar (io)
Italian: sedersi (it)
Japanese: 座る (ja) ( すわる, suwaru ) , 腰掛ける ( こしかける, koshikakeru )
Kalmyk: суух ( suux )
Kapampangan: lukluk
Khmer: អង្គុយ (km) ( ʼɑngkuy )
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Korean: 앉다 (ko) ( anda )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دانیشتن ( danîştin )
Northern Kurdish: rûniştin (ku)
Lao: ນັ່ງ ( nang )
Latin: cōnsīdō
Macedonian: се́днува impf ( sédnuva ) , се́дне pf ( sédne )
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Ngazidja Comorian: ukantsi
Norman: s'assiéthe
Persian: نشستن (fa) ( nešastan )
Polish: siadać (pl) impf , usiąść (pl) pf
Portuguese: sentar -se
Romanian: se așeza , (please verify ) sta jos
Romansch: seser
Russian: сади́ться (ru) impf ( sadítʹsja ) , сесть (ru) pf ( sestʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сести pf , сјести pf
Roman: sesti pf , sjesti (sh) pf
Slovak: sadnúť si , posadiť sa
Slovene: usesti se pf , sesti pf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sednuś se
Spanish: sentarse (es)
Swahili: kukaa kitako
Swedish: sätta sig
Tagalog: umupo (tl) , lumuklok
Tajik: нишастан ( nišastan )
Thai: นั่ง (th) ( nâng )
Tok Pisin: sindaun
Turkish: oturmak (tr)
Ukrainian: сіда́ти (uk) impf ( sidáty ) , сі́сти pf ( sísty )
Urdu: بیٹھنا ( baiṭhnā )
Uzbek: oʻtirmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: ngồi xuống , ngồi (vi)
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