Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

uppstå

come up

Meaning

come up

In Swedish: uppkomma, börja

Conjugation

Conjugation of uppstå (come up)
Infinitive	att uppstå	to come up
Present	uppstår	jag uppstår
Past	uppstod	jag uppstod
Supine	uppstått	used after har / hade
Perfect	har uppstått	jag har uppstått
Past perfect	hade uppstått	jag hade uppstått
Future	ska uppstå	or: kommer att uppstå
Conditional	skulle uppstå	jag skulle uppstå
Imperative	uppstå!	a command
Present participle	uppstående	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	uppstånden	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of uppstå
Infinitive	uppstås
Present	uppstås
Past	uppstods
Supine	uppståtts

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use uppstår. See the four verb groups explained.

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uppstå in a sentence

det har uppstått ett problem
a problem has come up
Men Gud gjorde en ände på dödens vånda och lät honom uppstå
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death (Acts 2:24)
Krisen uppstod efter en period av relativ stabilitet.
The crisis arose after a period of relative stability.

Questions

What does uppstå mean in English?

uppstå means “come up”.

What is the past tense of uppstå?

The past tense of uppstå is uppstod (“jag uppstod”). The supine is uppstått, used in “jag har uppstått”.

What is the present tense of uppstå?

uppstår, the same for every person: jag uppstår, du uppstår, vi uppstår.

Similar words

uppkomma

Origin

upp + stå

Nearby common words

uppstå is number 3,495 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,491aggressiv aggressive, belligerent
3,492tapp peg, plug
3,493neka deny
3,494sökande applicant
3,497positivt positive
3,498svamp fungus, sponge
3,499vägrad refused, denied
3,500lake brine

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary