Rapportera

Rapportera is a Swedish verb meaning to report, to present information officially, or to file a report. It is used to describe the act of conveying facts, events, or observations to an authority, a media outlet, an organization, or a colleague. The infinitive form is rapportera; it is conjugated for person and tense in a way common to Swedish verbs (presens: rapporterar; preteritum: rapporterade; perfekt: har rapporterat; imperativ: rapportera).

In usage, rapportera is typically transitive and takes a direct object or an indirect object indicating to whom the report is made. It appears in formal contexts such as incident reporting, compliance and auditing, journalism, scientific reporting, and administrative processes, as well as in everyday communication when someone wants to inform others about something significant.

Common contexts include reporting a problem or fault to a service desk or supervisor, reporting an incident to authorities, reporting results in a study or project, and reporting news to a publication. The term also appears in compound phrases such as rapportering of information, or in the noun form rapport (a report or account) related to the verb.

Etymology and related forms: rapportera is formed from the noun rapport plus the verb suffix -era, a pattern for Swedish verbs. The word is cognate with similar forms in other Germanic languages and is closely related to the English verb to report. Related Swedish terms include rapport (a report), registrera (to register), and anmäla (to report to authorities).

See also: rapport, anmäla, registrera, rapportering.