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1775
Uppe = Position, Upp = Direction, Uppför = Direction with an additional preposition, uphill
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.?
So following other rules I've seen, does "upside down" translate to "uppe nere"? Or is it something completely different because languages are weird?
- 950
'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.
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
I have the impression the expression "cow on the ice" doesn't exist in english ;-)
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?
- 124
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"
- 1815
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.
