Aufbewahrten
Aufbewahrten is a German form related to the verb aufbewahren, meaning to store, preserve, or keep. In standard use, aufbewahren is a separable-prefix verb, and the simple past tense for the third-person plural is bewahrten auf. In normal orthography, the prefix is separated: sie bewahrten die Akten auf. The sequence aufbewahrten (as a single word) is not the usual written form in modern German; it may appear only as a result of irregular typography, older texts, or when the verb form is quoted without spacing. The past participle is aufbewahrt, used with haben to form the perfect: sie haben die Akten aufbewahrt.
- As a tense form: bewahrten auf indicates a completed action in the past, performed by plural subjects.
- As a lexical item in compounds: aufbewahren combines prefix auf- with bewahren, producing a sense of
Nominalization and related terms
- The noun Aufbewahrung denotes storage or safekeeping, a common term in legal, archival, and logistics contexts.
- Rare nominalized forms of the participle, such as Aufbewahrten, may appear in very formal or archaic
- related verbs: bewahren (to preserve), lagern (to store)
In summary, aufbewahrten is primarily a morphological form of aufbewahren in past tense, with standard written