Mottagen

Mottagen is a Swedish past participle form derived from the verb mottaga (to receive). It is commonly used as an adjective to indicate that something has been received or accepted by an individual, an office, or an authority. In bureaucratic and administrative language, mottagen serves as a status marker for documents, communications, and other items that have been processed.

In practice, mottagen appears on forms and in statements to show that a particular item has been received or filed. Examples include phrases such as “Ansökan mottagen” (the application received) or “Brev mottaget” (the letter received). Like other participles, the form agrees with the noun it modifies, so the exact ending can vary with gender and number; mottagen is common for many en-words in singular, while other inflected forms may be used for neuter or plural nouns depending on the syntactic context and style guidelines.

Common contexts for its use include application processing, mail handling, and archival cataloging, where staff record that a submission or correspondence has been officially received. It can also appear in personnel or education settings to indicate that a candidate or student has been admitted or accepted into a program, lawfully reflecting the status of acceptance rather than a mere receipt.

Aside from administrative usage, mottagen may be encountered in literary or journalistic writing to describe elements that have been acknowledged or incorporated. In linguistic terms, it is the standard passive participle form of mottaga and carries no separate lexical meaning beyond “received” or “accepted.”