To Place, To Fix, To Set, To Lay, To Seat
Transitive verb and Ichidan verb
すえる
今度、この機械を工場に据えようと思っているんだ。
I think I’m going to have the machine fixed by the factory this time.
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means install, so the verb version is to install or to fix.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You learned this reading already so you should be able to read it!