Stået

Stået is the past participle of the Danish verb stå, meaning to stand. In standard Danish, stået is used in perfect tenses with the auxiliary har to express actions or states related to standing. The present perfect form is jeg har stået, meaning I have stood or I have stood here for example. The simple past tense of stå isstod, not ståret, so stået does not replace the past tense; rather, it completes the compound tenses.

The past participle also appears in phrases that describe a state resulting from standing, such as jeg har stået i kø hele formiddagen (I have stood in line all morning). In many everyday uses, stået is combined with adverbs or prepositional phrases to convey duration or location of standing, for instance, han har stået her hele morgenen (he has stood here the whole morning).

Common collocations include indicators of duration or position, such as stået i kø (stood in line) and stået stille (stood still). The participle is closely related to the verb stå, whose present tense is står and past tense is stod. The related present participle stående means standing, used to describe an ongoing action or state.

Etymology: stået derives from the Danish verb stå, itself from Old Danish sta, with roots in the Proto-Germanic word *standaną; cognates include English stand and German stehen. Spelling and usage reflect Danish phonology and grammar.

See also: Danish grammar, Danish verbs, stå.