Gerapporteerde

Gerapporteerde is the past participle form of the Dutch verb rapporteren, used as an adjective meaning “reported.” It functions similarly to other past participles in Dutch and is used to describe information or findings that have been reported by someone, such as researchers, authorities, or institutions. When used before a noun, it generally agrees in number and definiteness, for example gerapporteerde cijfers or de gerapporteerde gevallen.

In usage, gerapporteerde tends to appear in formal contexts such as statistics, incident reports, and research summaries. It can also occur in passive constructions where the reported information is the focus, as in door de onderzoekers gerapporteerde resultaten (results reported by the researchers) or door de politie gerapporteerde incidenten (incidents reported by the police). The form is flexible enough to function both attributively and in certain predicative positions, depending on the syntactic construction.

Linguistically, gerapporteerde contrasts with the past participle gerapporteerd, which is used in perfect tenses or passive voice when the emphasis is on the action of reporting itself rather than on the reported content. For example, cijfers zijn gerapporteerd (the figures have been reported) uses gerapporteerd in a passive perfect construction, while gerapporteerde cijfers emphasizes the figures as the reported data.

See also: rapporteren, gerapporteerd, rapportage.