Dokumenterades

Dokumenterades is a Swedish verb form meaning "was documented" or "were documented." It is the preterite (simple past) passive form of the verb dokumentera, which means to document, record, or provide written evidence of information or events. In use, dokumenterades signals that an action of documentation was completed by an agent, which may be named (for example av forskarna) or omitted.

Grammatically, dokumenterades functions as the past passive. The corresponding present passive is dokumenteras, and the active past tense is documented as dokumenterade. These forms are part of standard Swedish verb conjugation and are used across formal and informal registers.

Etymology traces the root to the noun dokument (document) and the verb bildades from likewise Latin-derived sources such as documentum, integrated into Swedish as dokumentera and related forms. The term reflects the broader linguistic borrowing from Latin and European languages that supplied many words for written records and evidence.

Usage and context: dokumenterades is commonly found in academic writing, archival descriptions, historical reports, journalism, and legal or administrative documents. It situates statements in a historical or evidentiary frame, indicating that information has been recorded, verified, or preserved. For example, “Fyndet dokumenterades i fältloggboken,” means the finding was documented in the field log.

See also: dokumentera, dokumentation, dokument, dokumentationsteknik.