Förstådd

Förstådd is a Swedish past participle form of the verb förstå, meaning to understand. It is used mainly as a passive participle or as an adjective describing that something has been understood. When used attributively, it agrees with the noun in gender and number, as in an understood or comprehended item.

In standard Swedish, the more common expression for understanding in perfect tense is har förstått, which uses the past participle förstått. Förstådd, by contrast, appears in passive constructions or in contexts where the state of being understood is emphasized. Examples include predictable phrases such as Frågan är förstådd (the question is understood) or Frågan var förstådd efter förklaringen (the question was understood after the explanation). The form also appears in plural as förstådda.

Etymologically, förstådd derives from the verb förstå and is related to the noun förståelse (understanding). In practice, förstådd is less frequent in everyday speech than förstått, which is the form used in most perfect tenses. Nevertheless, förstådd remains a standard participial form in formal or written Swedish for expressing a completed state of understanding in a passive or descriptive sense.