Utforskas

Utforskas is a Swedish verb form that represents the present tense passive of utforska, meaning to explore. It is used when the subject of a sentence is being explored by someone else, rather than actively performing the exploration. As a passive voice construction, utforskas often appears in scientific, academic, journalistic, and general descriptive writing to emphasize the process rather than the actor.

In practice, utforskas appears in sentences such as “Fyndet utforskas av forskarna” (The finding is being explored by the researchers) or “Materialet ska utforskas med olika tekniker” (The material should be explored with various techniques). The form allows writers to discuss ongoing inquiry, examination, or analysis without attributing the action to a specific subject.

Grammatical notes: utforskas is aligned with the subject in number and accepts typical passive-voice modifiers, with agents introduced by av, as in av forskarna. The active counterpart is utforskar (present) or utforskade (past), and related forms include utforskat (past participle) and utforskas vidare (is explored further).

Related terms include utforskning (exploration), which is the noun form, and utforska (to explore), the infinitive. Utforska can appear in active clauses such as forskarna utforskar fenomenet, where the agents perform the exploration, while utforskas highlights the action itself as something under examination.