sit up

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

From Middle English upsitten (“to sit up”).

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: incorporar-se — to rise to a sitting position
• Finnish: nousta istumaan — to rise to a sitting position
• German: sich aufsetzen — to rise to a sitting position
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (ussitan) — to rise to a sitting position
• Greek: ανακάθομαι (anakáthomai) — to rise to a sitting position
• Māori: noho tū — to rise to a sitting position
• Old English: āsittan — to rise to a sitting position
• Spanish: sentarse — to rise to a sitting position
• Vietnamese: ngồi dậy — to rise to a sitting position
• Welsh: eistedd i fyny — to rise to a sitting position
• Bulgarian: седя изправен (sedja izpraven) — to sit erect
• Finnish: istua suorassa — to sit erect
• Finnish: istua selkä suorana — to sit erect
• Māori: noho tū — to sit erect
• Old English: āsittan — to sit erect
• Vietnamese: ngồi thẳng — to sit erect
• Finnish: havahtua — to show sudden interest
• Vietnamese: sáng mắt — to show sudden interest
• Finnish: pomppia — sports: to bounce
• German: hochschlagen — sports: to bounce
• Bulgarian: седя до късно (sedja do kǎsno) — to not go to bed
• Finnish: valvoa — to not go to bed
• Finnish: olla ylhäällä — to not go to bed
• Welsh: eistedd i fyny — to not go to bed