Skördade

Skördade is the perfect participle form of the Swedish verb skörda, which means “to harvest.” When used in a sentence it describes a crop, fruit, or other agricultural product that has already been gathered. The word is typically employed in a neutral, factual sense, for instance in reports about yearly crop yields, such as “Skördade majs reducerade sig med fem procent i år.” In this construction, skördade functions as an adjective modifying a noun like grödor (crops) or avlingar (harvests).

The term is rooted in Old Norse skerða, which also gave rise to the English word “scare” in the sense of “to harvest.” In contemporary Swedish, skördade can appear in both written and spoken language across a range of contexts, from scientific agricultural journals to advertisement slogans for food producers. It is often paired with verbs that signal the collection’s completion, e.g., “har skördade äran” (has harvested the grain).

Because the participle is grammatically neutral, it does not carry a literal connotation of abundance or scarcity; instead it simply denotes the state of having been harvested. Skördade is therefore common in public discourse during the harvest season, especially in news coverage of regional and national farming statistics.

The word’s counterpart in Swedish noun form is skörd, meaning “harvest” or “crop,” while the infinitive verb is skörda. Related terms include skördeflott, referring to a fleet of harvesters, and skördning, a more formal variant of harvesting.