Kategoriserats

Kategoriserats is a Swedish past participle form of the verb kategorisera, meaning to categorize. It translates to “has been categorized” or “was categorized” in English and is used to indicate that something has undergone the process of classification or tagging.

Grammatically, kategoriserats functions as a passive participle and is used with auxiliary verbs to form perfect and other passive constructions. For example: Föremålen har kategoriserats som historiska källor. In such sentences, the action of categorization is presented as completed and the emphasis is on the resulting classification rather than who performed it.

Common usage contexts include academic writing, library and archive metadata, database tagging, and content management. In these environments, items such as documents, artifacts, or data records may be kategoriserats to reflect their type, subject area, or intended audience. The form helps express a state resulting from an explicit labeling or classification process, whether performed by researchers, librarians, automated systems, or editorial workflows.

Etymology and related forms: kategoriserats derives from the verb kategorisera, which is built from the noun kategori (category). The term reflects the broader Swedish terminology for classification and indexing, with related forms such as kategoriserad (the present or past passive participle in other contexts) and kategori, the basis for many compound terms used in taxonomy and metadata.