höjas

höjas is not a standard independent verb in modern Swedish; it is generally viewed as a nonstandard or dialectal form or as a historical/orthographic variant of the standard passive form encountered with the verb höja, meaning "to raise" or "to lift." In contemporary usage, the standard forms are höja (infinitive), höjer (present active, “he raises”), höjs (present passive, “is raised”), höjde (past active, “raised”), and höjdes (past passive, “was raised”). The form höjas does not correspond to a regular tense in standard Swedish.

In practice, höja is used in contexts involving increasing levels, amounts, or heights. For example, prices or wages may be increased: priset höjs; wages höjs. Reports of changes in height or level may similarly use the passive form: golvet höjs (the floor is raised). The verb belongs to the class of strong verbs and has distinctive stem changes in different tenses.

Origin-wise, höja traces back to older forms in the Germanic language family and has cognates in related Nordic languages. The modern Swedish forms reflect regular inflection patterns for this verb, with the passive voice formed by the -s suffix in the present tense and by the combination of tense and voice in other forms.

See also: höja, höjning, höjbar.