tillgå
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish tilganga, equivalent to till + gå.
Verb
tillgå (present tillgår, preterite tillgick, supine tillgått, imperative tillgå)
- to happen, to come about
- Synonym: gå till
- 1917 October 31, “1 Samuelsboken 25:12”, in Kyrkobibeln 1917[1], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 6 March 2025:
- [N]är de hade kommit tillbaka, berättade de för honom allt, såsom det hade tillgått.
- When they had come back, they told him everything, as it had happened.
- 2022 October 13, Daniel Alling, “Allings imaginära koffert i Berlin”, in Sveriges Radio[2], archived from the original on 13 October 2022:
- Och att jag nu sitter här igen med [...] prestationsångest för att få ihop en krönika tillgick på följande vis:
- And the fact that I'm now sitting here again, with performance anxiety, trying to put together a column, came about in the following way:
- (in some expressions, in the infinitive) to be or have available (ready for use)
- Det fanns ingen annan lokal att tillgå i dag. ― There was no other venue available today.
- Vi har många resurser att tillgå på nätet. ― We have many resources available online.
- 2021 May 30, Ola Finell, “Försvaret öppnar egen blodbank för styrkorna i Mali”, in Sveriges Radio[3], archived from the original on 27 January 2022:
- Försvarsmakten öppnar en egen blodbank i Sverige för att se till att det finns blod att tillgå för svenska trupper i Mali.
- The Swedish Armed Forces are opening their own blood bank in Sweden, to see to it that there's blood available for Swedish troops in Mali.
- 2023 June 18, Linus Svensson, “Guide: Så verifierar SVT krigets bilder”, in Sveriges Television[4], archived from the original on 25 September 2024:
- [Sociala medier] är i många situationer den enda källan till information vi har att tillgå.
- Social media is, in many situations, the only source of information we have available.
Conjugation
| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tillgå | — | ||
| supine | tillgått | — | ||
| imperative | tillgå | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | tillgån | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | tillgår | tillgick | — | — |
| ind. plural1 | tillgå | tillgingo | — | — |
| subjunctive2 | tillgå | tillginge | — | — |
| present participle | tillgående | |||
| past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.