"Det går uppför."
Translation:It is going uphill.
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I believe "upp" is more generally "up", and "uppför" is specifically "uphill" or "upstairs".
I reported this, but it might be worth mentioning here too. I answered "It goes upward" and was told I am almost correct.... should use "upwards." As far as I can determine, "upward" and "upwards" are synonymous. The same is true of "backward" and "backwards." [Some sources do make a fine distinction though. As an adjective... upward; as an adverb... upwards. But other sources I've checked do not make that distinction. ]
It’s a vague distinction, but uppåt means ’in the direction upwards (usually without a specific goal) and uppför means the same thing, but when you’re walking along something, like stairs or a hill. It’s commonly used with words like klättra (climb), because then you’re in contact with what you’re climbing, i.e. you’re going along the mountain for example.
So if i want to say the plane moves upwards or when the sun rises it moves upwards i have to use uppåt because it.s not actually climbing an earthly structure?
Also greater surface area to burn going uphill (from an Australian living in a high risk area).
If I was referring to an elevator going up, would I say 'det åker uppför?'
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For an elevator it would be 'Hissen åker uppåt'. The word 'uppför' would imply a sloping surface like a hill.
Or apparently a vertical surface like a wall. At least in the case of nedför.
In German, there is a phrase "Es geht bergauf" which literally means "it's going uphill", but one uses it as a metapher to say that the things are developing in a right way. What about the Swedish sentence, does it have such connotation as well?
No, not at all. If anything, people would likely think you mean something's a struggle. But we do use det går utför, "it's going downhill", to mean the exact opposite. :)
I think "det går uppåt" works as a metaphor for things developing well, though.
Can "It walks uphill" be an acceptable translation here? Cause it got marked wrong for me :(
That honestly really doesn't sound like a very good translation, even though it's grammatical. The phrase is an idiom, not about something actually physically walking.
So how would one describe something walking up a hill? Now that Duo only allows me five mistakes a day, it makes me quite cross when I am marked down for making a grammatically correct translation.
Ni kanske borde lagga till översättningen 'goes upstairs' också ;) Jag använder uppför och nerför som 'upstairs and downstairs' ofta på jobbet. Directionally of course since uppe och nere can mean upstairs and downstairs as a place.
I respect that you do this, but it's really not very idiomatic Swedish.
Would it be possible for someone to explain me whay DUOLINGO won't accept "IT GOES UPPHILL" as an correct answer?
That actually is accepted, albeit with one p. You really shouldn't have been marked wrong for that.
We do accept both "upward" and "upwards". Note that they only use one p.