Kritiserat

Kritiserat is the past participle form of the Swedish verb kritisera, meaning to criticize. It is the form used in compound tenses of the active voice (har kritiserat, hade kritiserat) and also appears in passive constructions with the auxiliary form har kritiserats or hade kritiserats.

In practice, kritiserat serves two main functions. As part of the active voice, it indicates that the subject has criticized something or someone. For example: Forskningen har kritiserat förslaget. This means that the research has criticized the proposal. In passive constructions, the form kritiserats is used to mean “has been criticized.” For example: Förslaget har kritiserats av flera experter.

Kritiserat is also encountered in more formal or literary contexts as a participial form that can appear in attributive position in certain constructions, though the adjectival form kritiserad is more common when one wants to describe something as “criticized” in a straightforward, attributive way (for example, ett kritiserat uttalande would typically be expressed with kritiserat or kritiserad depending on gender and noun). The exact usage can vary with style and register.

Etymologically, kritisera is related to broader European words for “to criticize” and shares its sense with closely related terms in other Scandinavian languages. In modern Swedish, kritiserat remains a standard, widely understood indicator of actions involving criticism, whether active or passive, and is a common term in journalism, academia, and public discourse.

See also: kritisera, kritik, kritiker, kritisk, kritisering.