hinsetzen

Word type: hin verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat hingesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte hin

Meanings

to sit down

(More common in daily life than "sich setzen", which sounds a bit more formal or ceremonial. Mostly used with a self reference - "sich+Acc hinsetzen". If you specify the seat, go for just "setzen". )

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to place, to put down

(Colloquial word for putting a building somewhere, usually with a negative undertone.)

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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)

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