# sit
## Translingual
### Symbol

sit
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Sino-Tibetan languages.

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: sĭt, IPA: /sɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).

#### Verb

sit (third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (archaic, dialectal) sitten)
* (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
** 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
** 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London]: [Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 64:This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.
    After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
* (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
    I asked him to sit.
* (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
    The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
    Jim's pet parrot sat on his left shoulder.
** 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China.
       Audio (US):(file)
* (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 32:6:And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
* (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
    I currently sit on a standards committee.
* (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
    In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
* To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
** 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:The calamity sits heavy on us.
* To be adjusted; to fit.
    Your new coat sits well.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
* (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
    How will this new contract sit with the workers?
    I don’t think it will sit well.
    The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.
* (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
    Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
* (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
    The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
** 1899, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, sat%20me%20weary%20on%20a%20pillar's%20base%2C%20%2F%20And%20leaned%20against%20the%20shaft%22&f=false page 43:I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
* (US, ambitransitive) To babysit.
    I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
    I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
** 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:I saw […] Mrs. Turman, who sometimes sat Billy when Steff and I went out […]
** 2024 March 19, Faith Hill, “Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead”, in The Atlantic‎:Sitting was a “quintessentially American experience,” Yasemin Besen-Cassino, a Montclair State University sociologist and the author of The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap, told me.
* (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
* To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 17:11:The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
* To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
    I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
* To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
** 1689, John Selden, Table Talk:like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
** 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:Sits the wind in that quarter?
* (obsolete, transitive) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with. [13th–19th c.]
** 1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 5, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:Louisa, who […] had but ill born the commencement of this conversation, could sit it no longer, and hastily throwing up the sash, complained of the intense heat of the room.

##### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:sit.

##### Synonyms

* (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported): be seated
* (move oneself into such a position): be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat
* (of an object: occupy a given position permanently): be, be found, be situated
* (be a member of a deliberative body):
* (be accepted): be accepted, be welcomed, be well received
* (to accommodate in seats): seat

##### Derived terms

* apartment-sit
* babysit
* besit
* catsit
* dogsit
* do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope
* face-sit
* fence-sit
* flat-sit
* from where one is sitting
* granny-sit
* house-sit
* if I fits, I sits
* if it fits, I sits
* is anyone sitting here
* petsit
* plant-sit
* saw off the branch one is sitting on
* sit about
* sit-and-go
* sit-and-wait predator
* sit around
* sit back
* sit by
* sit-by-the-fire
* sit dead-red
* sit down
* sit for
* sit idly by
* sit in
* sit-in
* sit in for
* sit in judgement
* sit in judgment
* sit-inner
* sit in on
* sit in the wheels
* sit in with
* sit-lie
* sit loose
* sit loosely
* sit off
* sit on
* sit-on
* sit on a tack
* sit on death's doorstep
* sit one's ass down
* sit one's butt down
* sit on it
* sit on one's arse
* sit on one's ass
* sit on one's hands
* sit on one's laurels
* sit on someone's wheel
* sit on the fence
* sit-on-top
* sit-out
* sit out
* sit over
* sit right
* sit shiva
* sit-ski
* sit-skier
* sit still
* sittable
* sit the fence
* sit there like a lemon
* sit through
* sit tight
* sitting member
* sitting-out area
* sitting-rising test
* sitting room
* sitting-room
* sitting table
* sitting toilet
* sitting volleyball
* sit under
* sit-up
* sit up
* sit-up-and-beg
* sit upon
* sit-upon
* sit up with
* sit well
* sit with
* take sitting down
* trip sit
* unsittable
* where you stand depends on where you sit

##### Translations

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#### Noun

sit (plural sits)
* An act of sitting.
* (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
* (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sit (plural sits)
* (informal) Short for situation.
** 2012, Gail Shisler, For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith:The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”

##### Related terms

* sitrep

#### Multiple parts of speech

sit
* (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of situation and related forms of that word (situational, situationally, etc.)

### Anagrams

* 'its, 'tis, -ist, IST, ITS, Ist, STI, TIS, TIs, is't, ist, it's, its, tis

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Formally from Dutch zitten (“to sit”), from Frankish *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną. Semantically from a merger of the former and related Dutch zetten (“to set, put”), from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, whence also Afrikaans set (chiefly in compounds). Both Germanic verbs are eventually from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sət/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sit (present sit, present participle sittende, past participle gesit)
* (intransitive) to sit; to be in a sitting position (usually used with op, binne or in)
    Sy sit en sein vir haar dogtertjie.She is sitting and gesturing to her young daughter.
* (intransitive) to sit; to sit down to move into a sitting position
    Sit asseblief.Please sit down.
* (transitive) to place, to put
    Ek sit jou sleutels op die tafel.I am putting your keys on the table.
* (transitive) to deposit
    Ek gaan al my geld in die bank sit.I am going to deposit all my money in the bank.

#### Usage notes

* Sit and its derivatives are usually more commonly used than plaas for their overlapping senses, but are sometimes considered less formal than plaas, especially in formal writing.

#### Synonyms

* (to deposit): deponeer, plaas
* (to place): neersit, plaas

#### Derived terms

* afsit
* besit
* neersit
* opsit
* sitplek

#### Related terms

* beset

## Catalan
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsit]

### Noun

sit m (plural sits)
* bunting (bird of the genus Emberiza)

#### Derived terms

* sit blanc
* sit pintat
* sita golanegre

### Further reading

* “sit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Danish
### Pronoun

sit n (common sin, plural sine)
* (reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | common | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Singular | Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | hendes | hendes |
| Singular | Third | common (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | indefinite | man | en | ens | ens | ens |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine |
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | vores | vores |
| Plural | First | archaic / formal | vi | os | vor | vort | vore |
| Plural | Second | – | I | jer | jeres | jeres | jeres |
| Plural | Third | – | de | dem | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | sig | deres | deres | deres |

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsit/, [ˈs̠it̪]
* Rhymes: -it
* Hyphenation: sit

### Adverb

sit
* (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of sitten

## Gothic
### Romanization

sit
* Romanization of 𐍃𐌹𐍄

## Ingrian
### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈsit/, [ˈs̠id]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈsit/, [ˈʃid̥]
* Rhymes: -it
* Hyphenation: sit

### Adverb

sit
* Alternative form of siit
** 2008, “Läkkäämmä omal viisii [We're speaking [our] own way]”, in Inkeri‎, volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 12:Tämä on Savimäen kylä a sit ono veel Hammalan kylä.This is the Savimäki village and then there is also the Hammala village.

### References

* Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 35

## Karelian
### Etymology

Related to Veps sid'.

### Adverb

sit
* here

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsit/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsit/, [ˈsit̪]

### Verb

sit
* third-person singular present active subjunctive of sum
** 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:23
    Sit nomen tuum Deus Israhel benedictum in saecula. (Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever.)

### References

* "sit", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Latvian
### Verb

sit
* inflection of sist:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of sist
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of sist

## Livvi
### Etymology

Compare the colloquial and dialectal Finnish "sit" (the standard form of which is sitten).

### Adverb

sit
* then
* when

### References

* Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “sit”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

### Anagrams

* 'tis, its, its', IST, TIs, t'is, tis, STI, TIS, is't, ist, it's, -ist, 'its, Ist, TSI, ITS, S.T.I.

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠iːt/

### Verb

sīt
* second-person plural present imperative of sīn / wësen

## Northern Ohlone
### Etymology

Compare Southern Ohlone sit (“tooth”).

### Noun

sit
* (plural only) teeth, set of teeth
* (with himmen) a tooth

### References

* María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington (1930s) Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Langauges)‎, Unpublished

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

sit
* present of sitja and sitta
* imperative of sitja

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sit/

### Verb

sit
* third-person singular present indicative of sittan

## Old Norse
### Verb

sit
* inflection of sitja:
** first-person singular present active indicative
** second-person singular present active imperative

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɕit/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -it
* Syllabification: sit

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sitъ.

#### Noun

sit m inan
* any rush of the genus Juncus

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

sit n
* genitive plural of sito

### Further reading

* sit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* sit in PWN's encyclopedia

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French site or English site.

### Noun

sit n (plural situri)
* picturesque landscape
* site of a city
* archeological site
* (Internet) website
    Synonym: site

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sytъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sā́ˀtas, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂-.

#### Adjective

sȉt (Cyrillic spelling си̏т, definite sȉtī, comparative sitiji)
* sated, full
    Antonyms: gladan, lačan

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “sit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sitъ.

#### Noun

sȋt m (Cyrillic spelling си̑т)
* rush (genus Juncus)

#### Further reading

* “sit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sytъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sít/

#### Adjective

sȉt (comparative bȍlj sȉt, superlative nȁjbolj sȉt)
* sated, full

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sitъ.

#### Alternative forms

* site, sȋtje, sitína

#### Noun

sȋt m inan
* rush (genus Juncus)

### Further reading

* “sit”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Southern Ohlone
### Noun

sit
* tooth

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English shit.

### Noun

sit
* (vulgar) faeces, shit.

#### Derived terms

* sithaus

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sitta, from Proto-Uralic *sitta. Cognates include Finnish sitta.

### Noun

sit
* shit