Grälat

Grälat is the past participle of the Swedish verb gräla, meaning to argue or quarrel. It is used to describe a completed act of arguing and appears in perfect and pluperfect tenses with auxiliary verbs, for example har grälat or hade grälat.

Gräla is conjugated as grälar in the present, grälade in the simple past, grälat as the past participle, and grälande as the present participle. The past participle grälat combines with ha or hade to form compound tenses, and can sometimes function in adjectival positions in certain constructions.

Grälat is most commonly found in written Swedish and in narrative or formal contexts describing a quarrel that has already occurred. In everyday speech, speakers often rely on the finite verb forms (such as grälar in the present tense or grälade in the past) rather than the past participle to convey tense. When used in compound tenses, it conveys a completed action rather than a current state.

Examples:

- Jag grälade med min bror igår. (I argued with my brother yesterday.)

- Hon har grälat med sin kollega. (She has argued with her colleague.)

- De hade grälat om politiken. (They had argued about politics.)

See also:

- gräl, the noun for a quarrel

- gräla, the verb from which grälat derives