Instalados

Instalados is the past participle form of the Spanish verb instalar, used as an adjective to describe objects, systems, or people that have been set up, placed, or established in a specific place or state. As a masculine plural adjective, it agrees with masculine or mixed-gender nouns (for example, los equipos instalados). Its feminine plural form is instaladas, used with feminine nouns (las computadoras instaladas).

In everyday language, instalados serves to indicate that something is currently in place and functioning after an installation process. Common collocations include installed equipment (equipo instalado), installed software (software instalado), and installed programs (programas instalados). The term is frequently found in technical, architectural, and IT contexts, where it helps distinguish items that are ready for use from those that are not yet set up.

Grammatical notes: instalados is the masculine plural form of the participle; it may also appear in incompletely conjugated constructions in certain regional varieties. As with other participles, it can function attributively (modifying a noun) or predicatively (in compound verb phrases such as estar instalados).

Cultural and linguistic context: while not typically a standalone title, instalados can appear in Spanish-language media and documentation as a descriptor for things that have been installed, and it may appear in discussions contrasting installed versus no longer in use items. In Portuguese, the equivalent term is instalado with similar gender agreement.

See also: instalar, instalación, instalado, instalando.