Adresserte

Adresserte is a Norwegian verb in the simple past tense of adresser(e) and is used to indicate that something was directed to a recipient or that attention or speech was directed toward a subject. It applies to concrete objects such as letters and emails, as well as to more abstract actions like addressing a question or a crowd.

In everyday use, adresserte appears in sentences such as: Hun adresserte brevet til direktøren. or Han adresserte spørsmålet til panelet. The related form ble adressert is used to express the passive past, as in Brevet ble adressert til direktøren. The verb is transitive, taking a direct object that specifies the recipient or the matter being addressed.

Morphology and usage notes: the present tense is adresserer (Han adresserer brevet), the past tense is adresserte (Hun adresserte møtet), and the infinitive is å adressere. The past participle is adressert, used in compound tenses and passive constructions. The verb shares the underlying meaning with related senses, including directing communication to someone and directing attention to a topic.

Etymology and related terms: adresser(e) derives from the noun adresse, meaning address, and reflects the function of directing something toward a recipient or addressing an issue. Related Norwegian terms include adresse (address), adressat (addressee), and the verb adjacently related forms in other Scandinavian languages.

See also: adresse, adressat, adressering, adressere.