diff --git a/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi b/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
index d42db1bc0c57..18fcaed37625 100644
--- a/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ _Root = TypeVar("_Root", Element, Element | None, default=Element | None)
 class ElementTree(Generic[_Root]):
     def __init__(self, element: Element[Any] | None = None, file: _FileRead | None = None) -> None: ...
     def getroot(self) -> _Root: ...
+    def _setroot(self, element: Element[Any]) -> None: ...
     def parse(self, source: _FileRead, parser: XMLParser | None = None) -> Element: ...
     def iter(self, tag: str | None = None) -> Generator[Element, None, None]: ...
     def find(self, path: str, namespaces: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> Element | None: ...