Stöðvað

Stöðvað is an Icelandic term that functions as the past passive participle of the verb stöðva, meaning to stop, halt, suspend, or discontinue. As an adjective, it conveys that something has been brought to a stop or placed in a halted state. It is used in passive constructions with the verb vera and can also occur attributively before a noun to describe a halted condition, for example stöðvað ferli (a halted process).

In practice, stöðvað is commonly used to describe programs, operations, or processes that have been stopped—whether temporarily or permanently—often due to malfunction, policy decisions, or external factors. It can appear predicatively after a form of to be, as in Verkið var stöðvað (The project was halted).

In Icelandic, participles are inflected to agree with the noun they modify in gender and number, so the form of stöðvað appears according to context. The neuter singular form stöðvað is especially common in predicative use, while other inflections may occur for different nouns.

Etymology: The word derives from the verb stöðva, itself from Old Norse, with the participle ending -ð. A related noun is stöðvun, referring to a stoppage or halt.

See also: stöðva, stöðvun, hætta, slökkva.