Kommittiert

Kommittiert is a German verb form, specifically the past participle of kommittieren, and also used as a finite verb in present and past tenses. The core meaning is to refer a matter, person, or task to a committee for examination, decision, or oversight, or to entrust a matter to a committee. In practical use, the construction often involves a reference to a body such as dem Ausschuss or dem Komitee, as in dem Prüfungsausschuss kommittieren or eine Angelegenheit dem Komitee zur Prüfung kommittieren.

In contemporary German, kommittieren is relatively formal and most common in organizational, administrative, or governmental contexts. It is less frequent in everyday speech, where verbs like zuweisen, überweisen, means to refer or delegate, or vorzulegen to present a proposal to a committee, are more typical. A typical example sentence would be: Der Fall wurde dem Prüfungsausschuss kommittiert.

Etymologically, the verb is related to the noun Komitee (committee) and derives from the same root as the French comité/English committee, via German linguistic adaptation. It is a regular -ieren verb, so its conjugation follows the standard pattern: ich kommittiere, du kommittierst, er kommittiert; Präteritum ich kommittierte, du kommittiertest, er kommittierte; Perfekt ich habe kommittiert.

See also: Komitee, Ausschuss, Kommission, Beirat. While legally and bureaucratically precise, kommittieren is often replaced by clearer formulations such as eine Angelegenheit an einen Ausschuss überweisen oder zur Prüfung vorlegen.