ransetzen

Word type: ran verb
Based on: ansetzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat rangesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte ran

Meanings

to sit down at

("ransetzen an+Acc" - the literal act of sitting down at a table. Sounds colloquial. Can also be used for placing someone at someone's table.)

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to (sit) and work on something

("sich+Acc ransetzen" - colloquial term for the idea of taking the time and sitting down to work on a problem or piece (usually something that has been started already).)

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Word Family

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)

ransetzen

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