absetzen

Word type: ab verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat abgesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte ab

Meanings

to take off

(For things you wear on your head; e.g. glasses, hats, hoods and headphones. "abnehmen" also means that and is a tiny bit more common in daily life.)

Opposite (closest): aufsetzen

to cancel, to stop

(For tv shows and medicine like antibiotics.)

Opposite (closest): ansetzen

to drop off

("jemanden+Acc absetzen" - Used on context of giving someone a ride but "rauslassen" is more common.)

to deduct

("absetzen von" - in the context of taxes.)

to settle

("sich+Acc absetzen" - for yeast and other small particles in a liquid)

to set oneself apart from

("sich+Acc absetzen von" )

to flee

("sich+Acc absetzen" - a "quiet" kind of fleeing, without any drama or action.)

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Advent Calendar 15 - Cancelling 101

Root: *sed-

The core idea of this root was

sitting

Today, the majority of members of the family are about a somewhat broader sense of “putting down”.
Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

to sit, seat (“sitting”)
saddle (“seat”)
to set (“putting down”)
settle (“sitting down for camping”)
soil (“where your settlement is”)
session (“the sitting”)
seance (“the sitting”)
siege (“sitting in front”)
sediment (“dust settling”)
possess (“sit on”)
obsess (“sit on, occupy”)
sedate, sedative (“settling”)
assist, assistent (Originally, a person sitting next to the judge)
assess (see “assist”, originally an assistant responsible for determining fines)
size (see “assess”)
cathedral (Originally, it was a scholar’s chair, the root is the “thed”- part)
chair (comes from cathedral)