zusetzen

Word type: zu verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat zugesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte zu

Meanings

to add

(Mainly, in context of industrial food production, and there, the noun "der Zusatz" is more common. NOT for normal cooking when you add salt or something.)

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to give a hard time

("jemandem zusetzen" - mainly for situations and circumstances that give someone a hard time. Think of continued stress at work or cold temperatures. NOT for a difficult task or a person giving you a hard time.)

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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)

zusetzen

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