Grävts

Grävts is the past passive participle of the Swedish verb gräva, meaning dug or excavated. It is used to describe that digging has been carried out by someone or by machinery, and it appears in passive constructions and periphrastic tenses.

In grammar, grävts functions as the passive participle. It is typically combined with a form of the auxiliary vara to form perfect passive or with a simple past passive in certain constructions. For example, in present perfect passive one can say hålet har grävts (the hole has been dug). The corresponding simple past passive is hålet grävdes (the hole was dug). By contrast, the active past participle is grävt, used in active constructions such as jag har grävt ett hål (I have dug a hole).

Usage and context: grävts is common in fields involving digging or excavation, such as construction, archaeology, and landscaping. It can describe processes that have already been completed, often highlighting that the digging was performed by an agent (person or machine) rather than by the subject itself. It may appear in news reports, project descriptions, and historical records to indicate the outcome of digging work.

Related forms: gräva is the base verb. Grävt is the active past participle (used with har/grävt when describing something the subject has dug). Grävdes is the simple past passive form (the digging was done). Grävas is the present passive form (is dug).

See also: gräva, grävt, grävdes, grävas.