slumpa sig

slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”) +‎ -a +‎ sig (“itself”)

slumpa sig (present slumpar sig, preterite slumpade sig, supine slumpat sig, imperative slumpa sig)

1. to happen by chance, to just so happen

   Det slumpade sig så att vi hamnade vid samma bord som Sean Connery

   We just happened to end up at the same table as Sean Connery

   Av en slump hamnade vi vid samma borde som Sean Connery

   By chance, we ended up at the same table as Sean Connery (for comparison)

   Konstigt att det slumpade sig så

   Weird how it happened that way (literally, "Strange that it happened by chance in that way")

• slump

• av en slump (“by chance”)

• slumpa sig in Svensk ordbok (SO)