Verb
at stå
Meaning
to stand
| Infinitive | Nutid | Datid | Førnutid |
| at stå | står | stod | har stået |
Example on how to use the verb – Danish version
Det gamle egetræ står stadig vagt i kanten af engen, dets bark knortet som en ældstes hænder. I dag står jeg under dets grene og ser den sene eftermiddagssol plette græsset. Jeg husker, hvordan jeg som barn stod på netop dette sted og prøvede at tælle knuderne i dets stamme og følte mig umuligt lille.
Den dreng har stået her tusind gange siden i minde om sig selv, hver erindring en stille forankring mod livets konstante bevægelse. Træet var vidne til mine barndomslege, mine teenagesuk, og nu holder min voksenalder pause. Det har stået igennem storme, jeg aldrig så, og årstider, jeg glemte at bemærke. Nutiden føles tyndere her, holdt fast i rummet mellem fortiden og det vedvarende.
At stå nu er at have stået dengang – en enkelt stilling, der snor sig gennem tiden, så sikker som rødder og så flygtig som en skygge. Vinden stiger, bladene hvisker, og jeg forstår: nogle ting har stået længe nok til at lære os, hvordan vi står stille.
English version
The old oak tree still stands sentinel at the edge of the meadow, its bark gnarled like an elder’s hands. Today, I stand beneath its branches, watching late afternoon sun dapple the grass. I remember how, as a child, I stood on this very spot, trying to count the knots in its trunk, feeling impossibly small.
That boy has stood here a thousand times in memory since, each recollection a quiet anchoring against life’s constant motion. The tree witnessed my childhood games, my teenage sighs, and now my adult pauses. It has stood through storms I never saw and seasons I forgot to notice. The present feels thinner here, held in the space between the past and the enduring.
To stand now is to have stood then—a single posture threading through time, as certain as roots and as fleeting as a shadow. The wind rises, leaves whisper, and I understand: some things have stood long enough to teach us how to stand still.
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