Sorterade

Sorterade is the past tense form of the Swedish verb sortera, meaning to arrange items according to criteria, separate them into categories, or organize materials for recycling and disposal. The verb describes an act of organizing or classifying, whether physically (sorting papers) or conceptually (sorting data). In everyday use, sortera covers activities such as sorting waste, clothing, documents, or numbers.

Grammatically, sortera is a regular verb of the -a conjugation. Its principal parts are present tense sorterar, past tense sorterade, and supine sorterat. The past tense form sorterade is used to describe actions completed in the past: e.g., Jag sorterade mina böcker igår. The past participle/adjective form sorterad describes things that have already been sorted, as in en sorterad lista.

Usage notes highlight contexts beyond everyday organizing. In Sweden, sorting is often linked to recycling programs, where households sort materials such as paper, plastic, metal, and glass. In data processing and computing, sortera is used for arranging records in a specific order based on a key; sorterade refers to data that have been ordered. The term also appears in agriculture or logistics when items are classified by type or quality.

See also: Sorting in computing; Recycling practices. Etymology: the verb is derived from the Swedish noun sort, meaning kind or type, with the -era suffix forming a verb that denotes the action of sorting.