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sissa

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Faroese

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Verb

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sissa (third person singular past indicative sissaði, third person plural past indicative sissaðu, supine sissað)

  1. to calm down, to reassure, to soothe

Usage notes

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  • sissa teg! - calm down!
  • sissa seg - to calm down
  • sissast (reflexive) - to calm down
  • (reflexive past tense) fólkið sissaðist aftur - the people calmed down again

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sissa (group v-30)
infinitive sissa
supine sissað
participle (a6)1 sissandi sissaður
present past
first singular sissi sissaði
second singular sissar sissaði
third singular sissar sissaði
plural sissa sissaðu
imperative
singular sissa!
plural sissið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sessijaną.

Verb

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sissa

  1. (transitive) to seat

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sessa, sesse
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sesse