Geporteerde

Geporteerde is a Dutch attributive adjective formed from the past participle geporteerd of the verb porteren, meaning to transport or carry. It is used before a definite noun to indicate that the noun has been transported or carried. For example, de geporteerde goederen refers to goods that have been transported, and de geporteerde zending refers to a shipment that has been carried.

In practice, geporteerde is most common in logistics, shipping records, and administrative or historical documents. It signals that the subject has undergone a transportation or carriage process. The form is part of standard Dutch grammar: when the participle geporteerd occurs with a definite noun, the attributive adjective takes the -e ending, yielding geporteerde.

Geporteerde is not a standalone lexical item with a separate sense beyond the participial construction. It should be distinguished from geporteerd (the short participle form used in predicate position, e.g., De goederen zijn geporteerd) and from geportretteerde, which is the past participle of the unrelated verb portretteren (to portray or depict).

Related terms include porteren (to transport or to porter in historical contexts) and portretteren (to portrait). In modern usage, the choice between geporteerd and geporteerde depends on position in the sentence and the definite-article context, while geportretteerde refers to someone who has been portrayed rather than transported.

See also: Porteren, Portretteren, Geporteerd.