hochsetzen

Word type: verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat hochgesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte hoch

Meanings

to sit up higher

("sich+Acc hochsetzen" - to go sit at the "higher" option available. Think of a two story Starbucks where you decide to drink your AMAZING coffee in the upper floor (#sponsored #sendchequenow))

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Opposite (closest): (d)runtersetzen

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to raise

(Pretty much only ever used for prices or some limit. Think of someone setting a figurative bar on to a higher stage.)

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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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