Høstet

Høstet is the past participle of the Norwegian verb høste, meaning to harvest or reap. It describes crops, fruit, or other goods that have been gathered during a harvest.

In modern Norwegian, høstet is used as a predicate adjective or as a modifier in noun phrases. Examples include kornet er høstet (the grain has been harvested) and frukten er høstet (the fruit has been harvested). It can also appear in phrases such as høstet korn (harvested grain) or høstet frukt, where it directly characterizes the noun.

The word is closely connected to the harvest season, høsten, which denotes autumn as well as the annual period of gathering crops. In agricultural contexts, the activity of harvesting is a central part of høsten, and the past participle høstet marks that the yield has been collected.

Linguistically, høstet is the standard past participle form in Norwegian and is used in Bokmål and Nynorsk. It belongs to a family of terms around harvest and season, with høst as the root meaning autumn as well as harvest time. Related basic terms include høste (to harvest) and høst (autumn/harvest season). The usage of høstet is primarily functional in describing completed gathering of crops or goods in Norwegian prose and everyday language.