Gegart

Gegart is the past participle of the German verb garen, meaning to cook or to prepare food by heat. The form is used both as a predicate in sentences and as an adjective describing the state of food that has been heated through.

In practice, gegart can appear in two main ways. As a predicate: Der Fisch ist gegart. Die Kartoffeln sind gegart. As an attributive adjective: eine gegarte Kartoffel, gegarte Kartoffeln. In cooking and food labeling, gegart indicates that the ingredient has been cooked and reached a usable or expected tenderness, though it does not specify the exact method of cooking.

The degree of doneness can be described with related terms, such as halb gegart (half-cooked) or durchgegart (throughcooked), to convey how thoroughly the food has been heated. Garen is a broad culinary term that covers methods like boiling, steaming, simmering, braising, and roasting, depending on the context, and gegart simply marks the completion of the cooking process.

Etymology and usage notes: gegart is a regular past participle formed with the prefix ge- and the -t ending. The verb garen is used widely in standard German, including recipes, cookbooks, and kitchen labeling. In everyday language, gegart tends to appear in formal or instructional contexts rather than in casual speech.

See also: related culinary terms such as roh (raw), gar (done, often used as an adverb), and durchgegart (thoroughly cooked).