Adjective

upptagen

busy

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Meaning

upptagen is the Swedish word for busy — a adjective you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.

Example

Jag är upptagen just nu.

I'm busy right now.

Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.