bestiga
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]bestiga (present bestiger, preterite besteg, supine bestigit, imperative bestig)
- to climb, to scale, to get to the top of (a mountain or the like)
- De besteg berget
- They climbed the mountain
- to mount (a riding animal or the like – rare for bicycles, where "sätta sig på" is more idiomatic)
- Synonym: sätta sig upp på
- Han besteg hästen
- He mounted his horse
- to mount (climb onto in order to mate with, of a quadruped)
- (figuratively) to ascend (a throne or the like)
- Han besteg tronen
- He ascended the throne
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bestiga | — | ||
| supine | bestigit | — | ||
| imperative | bestig | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | bestigen | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | bestiger | besteg | — | — |
| ind. plural1 | bestiga | bestego | — | — |
| subjunctive2 | bestige | bestege | — | — |
| present participle | bestigande | |||
| past participle | bestigen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms
[edit]- bergsbestigare (“mountain climber”)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “bestiga”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “bestiga”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “bestiga”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- Fula Ordboken