uppgick

Uppgick is a Swedish verb meaning to amount to or to come to a total, and is used to express that a sum, quantity, or value has reached a specified level. It is most common in formal, administrative, financial, statistical, and legal writing. In addition to indicating totals, the verb can occasionally appear in contexts where something is absorbed into a larger entity, though this sense is less frequent.

The present tense is uppgår and the past tense is uppgick. The perfect form is har uppgått. The phrase uppgick till is frequently used with numbers or amounts, for example: “Kostnaden uppgick till 2,5 miljoner kronor.” or “Antalet deltagare uppgick till över 500.” The construction is typically followed by a numeral, currency amount, or quantity.

Etymology and related forms: uppgick derives from the prefix upp- combined with gå (to go), conveying the sense of “come up to” or “amount to.” As a result, uppgå is the base verb, with uppgår in the present, uppgick in the past, and uppgått appearing in perfect tenses as part of the compound form har uppgått.

Usage notes: uppgick is predominantly literary or formal; in everyday language Swedes more often say att summan blev eller uppnåddes en viss nivå in less formal contexts. The verb is stable across standard Swedish and does not require special agreement beyond normal subject-verb concord in tense.