"Han är uppe på taket."

Translation: He is up on the roof.

[kounsh]

can somebody explain the different uses of uppe, upp and uppför?

[landsend]

Uppe = Position, Upp = Direction, Uppför = Direction with an additional preposition, uphill

[jayagmon]

Let's see if I got it correctly: when you talk about something or someone being in a certain place you'd use uppe / nere / ute / framme etc., while talking about something or someone moving in a certain direction you'd use upp / ned / ut / fram etc.?

[landsend]

Yes, that's it.

[olaf78]

thanks so much for this!!!

[thereasv15]

Use this as an example..

Var är du?
You must answer = Jag är uppe

Vart går du?
You must answer =
Jag går upp

Var kommer du ifrån?
You must answer =
Jag kommer uppifrån

[ouzun]

Is the table below correct? Could a native speaker comment? Tack!

Ner (direction): Down
Nere (position): Down, below
Ned direction): Down (formal)
Nedför (direction): Downhill
Upp (direction): Up
Uppe (position): Up
Uppför (direction): Uphill
In (direction): In
Inne (position): Inside, Indoors
Inom (position): within
Ut (direction): Out
Ute (position): Outside, Outdoors

[LenaStorli]

Excellent!

[Adamskiij]

So following other rules I've seen, does "upside down" translate to "uppe nere"? Or is it something completely different because languages are weird?

[Arnauti]

'upside down' is uppochned (or uppochner, both ways are fine) in Swedish. I'd say both the English and the Swedish expression here are a bit weird, they're just idiomatic.

[dcl520863]

oppochnervisan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxaFt1drQKI

[kielimaksa]

But isn't there danger on the roof?

[Zmrzlina]

Ah, no cow on the ice!

[HansLovesIce]

I have the impression the expression "cow on the ice" doesn't exist in english ;-)

[MarcGath]

Or as a friend learning Swedish at the same time once said, ginger on the roof

[Antonio_Sou]

I'm trying to thing of a situation where upp is not directly related with verticality (or close to).

Is it the case that the use of upp/uppför is as simple as the degree of inclination in question?

[torowan]

We've run into "dyker upp" (did I spell that right?) = "show up" = "aparecer" ... has nothing to do with the direction "up"; I am not sure why that is used in either Swedish or English. Or: "Se upp" ´= "look out" = "cuidado"

[scilling]

In English, “show up” is a phrasal verb with a meaning that is distinct from “show”, similar to the distinction between German auftauchen (“show up”, literally “up-dive”, similar to Swedish dyka upp) vs. tauchen (“dive”, Swedish dyka). Phrasal verbs are not as common in Romance languages as they are in Germanic languages.

[Boddason]

Varför inte: "atop of the roof"?

[mxlgreg]

*on top of the roof, or (poetic) atop the roof

[BluePrints3]

Ah, I understand this better now