sitte

See also: Sitte

Estonian

Noun

sitte

  1. partitive plural of sita

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sitja, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Verb

sitte (imperative sitt, present tense sitter, simple past satt, past participle sittet, present participle sittende)

  1. to sit (of a person, be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sitte (present tense sit, past tense sat, past participle sete, passive infinitive sittast, present participle sittande, imperative sitt)

  1. alternative form of sitja

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsit.te/

Verb

sitte

  1. inflection of sittan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sitta, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪtə/

Verb

sitte

  1. to sit

Inflection

Strong class 1
infinitive sitte
3rd singular past siet
past participle sitten
infinitive sitte
long infinitive sitten
gerund sitten n
auxiliary hawwe
indicative present tense past tense
1st singular sit siet
2nd singular sitst sietst
clitic form sitsto sietsto
3rd singular sit siet
plural sitte sieten
imperative sit
participles sittend sitten

Further reading

  • sitte”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011