arose
- 1Past tense of arise.
Several questions arose after the sudden announcement.
An unexpected opportunity arose that she could not ignore.
Note
Questions arose, a wind arose, she arose from her bed: the simple past stands on its own, with no helping verb. Like arise in every sense, it is intransitive, so nothing can be arisen as an object. Things happen or appear; you cannot arise them. After have or had, standard English switches to arisen, and putting arose in that slot is the nonstandard participle.
- 2Past participle of arise. Nonstandard; the standard form is arisen.
New complications have arose in the negotiations this week.
Questions had arose about the missing funds before anyone acted.
Note
A participle with a respectable past and a nonstandard present. Shakespeare's The Comedie of Errors has "these errors are arose," and the form turns up in the Biographia Britannica of 1748 and in a 1997 phylogeny paper by M. Y. S. Lee and P. Spencer. Today it reads as colloquial. In careful speech and writing, have and had take arisen.
arose is a form of arise
arise, verb: To come into being, action, or notice, presenting itself or beginning to take effect. Full entry
- Spelling
- arise → arose: irregular (no -ed)
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