slumpa sig

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Swedish

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Etymology

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slump (chance, randomness, happenstance) +‎ -a +‎ sig (itself)

Verb

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slumpa sig (present slumpar sig, preterite slumpade sig, supine slumpat sig, imperative slumpa sig)

  1. to happen by chance, to just so happen
    Det slumpade sig så att vi hamnade vid samma bord som Sean Connery
    We just happened to end up at the same table as Sean Connery
    Av en slump hamnade vi vid samma borde som Sean Connery
    By chance, we ended up at the same table as Sean Connery (for comparison)
    Konstigt att det slumpade sig
    Weird how it happened that way (literally, "Strange that it happened by chance in that way")

Conjugation

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