Gepleegd

Gepleegd is the past participle of the Dutch verb plegen. It denotes an action that has been performed or committed, and is most commonly used in relation to crimes or wrongful acts. In legal and journalistic Dutch it appears as a modifier or in passive constructions to indicate that an act has already been carried out by someone.

Morphology and usage notes: The form is gepleegd. The simple past tense is pleegde, and the present perfect uses heeft gepleegd (or hebben gepleegd in passive clauses). The ge- prefix marks the participle form for most Dutch verbs, including plegen.

Common contexts: The word is frequent in discussions of crime, fraud, or other completed actions. It often carries a negative or criminal connotation, but it can be used more broadly to describe any completed act with consequences. For example, in a sentence you might see: De misdaad is gepleegd door de verdachte. De verdachte heeft de misdaad gepleegd. De gepleegde feiten duiden op een zorgvuldig uitgevoerde operatie.

Related terms and phrases: Pleger refers to the perpetrator, the one who commits the act. De gepleegde misdaad and de gepleegde feiten are typical collocations in reports, court summaries, and forensic context.

In summary, gepleegd functions as a standard past participle in Dutch that signals that an act—usually unlawful or significant—has been completed, and it is most common in legal, media, and formal writing.