sentar
Asturian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *sedentō, from Latin sedens, present participle of sedeō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sentar (first-person singular indicative present siento, past participle sentáu)
- to sit, sit down, to seat
- (reflexive) to sit down
- to settle, fix
- to stabilize (the weather)
- Paez que yá sentó y nun va llover más
- It seems like (the weather) stabilized and it's not going to rain again
- to sit well, agree (food too)
- El quesu nun me sentó, non
- The cheese did not sit well with me, no
- Nun-y sentó lo que-y dixo
- What he/she said did not sit well with him/her
- to sing up, enroll, register (on a registry, census)
- Foi a asentar al neñu
- He/She went to register the kid
- (intransitive) to suit, fit
Conjugation
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese sentar, from Vulgar Latin *sedentō, from Latin sedens.
Verb
[edit]sentar (first-person singular present sento, first-person singular preterite sentei, past participle sentado)
- (transitive) to seat (to provide with a place to sit)
- (transitive) to seat; to set down
- Synonym: asentar
- (intransitive or reflexive) to sit down (to assume a sitting position)
- (intransitive) to sit (to be accepted or acceptable)
Conjugation
[edit]1Less recommended.
Related terms
[edit]Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Esperanto senti, French and Spanish sentir, Italian sentire.
Verb
[edit]sentar (present tense sentas, past tense sentis, future tense sentos, imperative sentez, conditional sentus)
- to feel
Conjugation
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present | past | future | ||||
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infinitive | sentar | sentir | sentor | ||||
tense | sentas | sentis | sentos | ||||
conditional | sentus | ||||||
imperative | sentez | ||||||
adjective active participle | sentanta | sentinta | sentonta | ||||
adverbial active participle | sentante | sentinte | sentonte | ||||
nominal active participle | singular | sentanto | sentinto | sentonto | |||
plural | sentanti | sentinti | sentonti | ||||
adjective passive participle | sentata | sentita | sentota | ||||
adverbial passive participle | sentate | sentite | sentote | ||||
nominal passive participle | singular | sentato | sentito | sentoto | |||
plural | sentati | sentiti | sentoti |
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese sentar, from Vulgar Latin *sedentāre, from Latin sedēns, present participle of sedeō.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: sen‧tar
Verb
[edit]sentar (first-person singular present sento, first-person singular preterite sentei, past participle sentado)
- (transitive) to seat
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to sit
- (transitive, figurative) to place (to put (an object or person) in a specific location)
- (transitive, reflexive) to settle (to become established in a steady position)
- (transitive, Brazil, informal) to land a blow; to hit; to deliver
- (transitive, intransitive, Brazil, vulgar) to ride (to mount someone to have sex with them)
- Synonym: cavalgar
Conjugation
[edit]1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Macanese: sentâ
Further reading
[edit]- “sentar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “sentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “sentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “sentar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “sentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sedentāre, from Latin sedēns, present participle of sedeō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sentar (first-person singular present siento, first-person singular preterite senté, past participle sentado)
- (transitive) to seat
- (transitive) to set, to establish, to lay
- Synonym: establecer
- Sin duda, esto va a sentar un precedente para eventos futuros.
- Undoubtedly, this is going to set a precedent for future events.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to sit down
- ¿Puedo sentarme? ― May I sit down?
- ¡Siéntate! ― Sit down!
- Siéntese en el piso.
- Sit on the floor.
- Él se sienta en el sillón.
- He sits down on the armchair.
- Siéntate en la esquina hasta que te digan a levantarte
- Sit in the corner until you are told to get up.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to settle down
- Synonym: asentar
- (transitive) to assert
- (intransitive, figurative) to suit, to fit
- (intransitive, figurative) to sit well
- to report
- (reflexive) (colloquial) to leave a mark on (the skin)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | sentar | ||||||
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gerund | sentando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | sentado | sentada | |||||
plural | sentados | sentadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | siento | sientastú sentásvos |
sienta | sentamos | sentáis | sientan | |
imperfect | sentaba | sentabas | sentaba | sentábamos | sentabais | sentaban | |
preterite | senté | sentaste | sentó | sentamos | sentasteis | sentaron | |
future | sentaré | sentarás | sentará | sentaremos | sentaréis | sentarán | |
conditional | sentaría | sentarías | sentaría | sentaríamos | sentaríais | sentarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | siente | sientestú sentésvos2 |
siente | sentemos | sentéis | sienten | |
imperfect (ra) |
sentara | sentaras | sentara | sentáramos | sentarais | sentaran | |
imperfect (se) |
sentase | sentases | sentase | sentásemos | sentaseis | sentasen | |
future1 | sentare | sentares | sentare | sentáremos | sentareis | sentaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | sientatú sentávos |
siente | sentemos | sentad | sienten | ||
negative | no sientes | no siente | no sentemos | no sentéis | no sienten |
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]- asentar
- sentadero
- sentamiento
- sentar cabeza
- sentar cátedra
- sentar la cabeza
- sentar las bases (“to lay the groundwork; to lay the foundations”)
- sentar un ejemplo (“to set an example”)
- sentar un precedente (“to set a precedent”)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *sedentō, from Latin sedens, present participle of sedeō.
Verb
[edit]sentar
- (transitive) to seat
Conjugation
[edit]- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | sentar | |||||
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auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | senténdo | |||
past participle | sentato | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | sento | (te) senti | (el/ła) sente | sentémo | sentì | (i/łe) sente |
imperfect | sentéa | (te) sentivi | (el/ła) sentéa | sentévimo | sentivi | (i/łe) sentéa |
future | sentarò | (te) sentarè | (el/ła) sentarà | sentarémo | sentarè | (i/łe) sentarà |
conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | sentarìa | (te) sentarisi | (el/ła) sentarìa | sentarìsimo | sentarisi | (i/łe) sentarìa |
subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
present | senta | (te) senti | (el/ła) senta | sentémo | sentì | (i/łe) senta |
imperfect | sentése | (te) sentisi | (el/ła) sentése | sentésimo | sentisi | (i/łe) sentése |
imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
— | (te) senti | (el/ła) senta | sentémo | sentì | (i/łe) senta |
Related terms
[edit]- Asturian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/aɾ
- Rhymes:Asturian/aɾ/2 syllables
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian verbs
- Asturian reflexive verbs
- Asturian terms with usage examples
- Asturian intransitive verbs
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- Galician transitive verbs
- Galician intransitive verbs
- Galician reflexive verbs
- Ido terms borrowed from Esperanto
- Ido terms derived from Esperanto
- Ido terms borrowed from French
- Ido terms derived from French
- Ido terms borrowed from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Spanish
- Ido terms borrowed from Italian
- Ido terms derived from Italian
- Ido lemmas
- Ido verbs
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese transitive verbs
- Portuguese intransitive verbs
- Portuguese reflexive verbs
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese informal terms
- Portuguese vulgarities
- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verbs with e-ie alternation
- Spanish transitive verbs
- Spanish terms with usage examples
- Spanish intransitive verbs
- Spanish reflexive verbs
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Venetian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Venetian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Venetian terms inherited from Latin
- Venetian terms derived from Latin
- Venetian lemmas
- Venetian verbs
- Venetian transitive verbs
- Venetian second conjugation verbs