Exportées

Exportées is the feminine plural past participle of the French verb exporter. It functions as a past participle that can act as an adjective meaning “exported” and must agree with the noun it modifies. It is commonly used with feminine plural nouns, for example des marchandises exportées or des denrées exportées, to describe items that have been sent out of a country for sale or distribution abroad.

Grammatical use and agreement are the main features of exportées. With the auxiliary être in compound tenses, the participle agrees with the subject: elles sont exportées. With the auxiliary avoir, it generally does not agree unless there is a preceding direct object; for example, nous avons exporté les produits (masculine plural) but les produits que nous avons exportés (agreement with the masculine plural direct object). When the direct object precedes the verb, the participle also agrees in gender and number: les denrées que nous avons exportées.

Usage context and semantics. In economic, trade, and policy writing, exportées appears in contexts describing goods, services, or data that have been shipped to foreign markets. The form highlights the feminine plural noun it accompanies, as in marchandises exportées, denrées exportées, or autres productions exportées. The related noun exportation refers to the act or process of exporting, while the adjective exportateur or secteur exportateur describes an exporting sector or related activities.

Etymology. Exportées derives from exporter, which comes from Latin exportare, from ex- “out” + portare “to carry.” The feminine plural ending -ées reflects the agreement pattern of past participles in French when modifying feminine plural nouns. See also exportation and exportateur for related terms.

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