uppställts

Uppstälts is a form of the Swedish verb uppställa and is used as the passive past participle in certain tense constructions to express that something has been set up, arranged, or erected. In everyday modern Swedish, the more common passive forms are uppställd or periphrastic constructions like har uppstälts, but uppstälts appears in more formal, legal, or historical texts and in fixed expressions.

Etymology and related terms: the word is built from the prefix upp- (up, upward) and the verb ställa (to place, to set). It is part of a traditional set of terms around arrangement and formation. A closely related noun is uppställning, which denotes an act of arranging, a placement, or a formation, such as a lineup or a military formation.

Usage and context: uppstälts is used to describe objects, installations, or groups that have been positioned or organized. Examples include monuments, equipment, or troops in formation. For instance, Monumentet har uppställts vid torget and Soldaterna har uppstälts i två kolonner illustrate how the form can appear in descriptive or administrative prose. In contemporary Swedish, uppstälts tends to occur most often in formal or historical writing, while everyday language more commonly uses uppställd with appropriate inflections.

Notes: as a form, uppstälts belongs to a family of passive participles derived from uppställa. When expressing that something has been set up,Swedish speakers typically rely on the more common uppställd or on the periphrastic har blivit uppställd, depending on the context and register.

See also: uppställd, uppställning, uppställningar.