beantwortet

Beantwortet is the past participle of the German verb beantworten, meaning to answer or respond to something. It is used to form the perfect tenses with haben and can function as a participial adjective, as in die beantwortete Frage.

Morphology and usage: beantworten is a regular verb. Present tense: ich beantworte, du beantwortest, er beantwortet, wir beantworten, ihr beantwortet, sie beantworten. Simple past (Präteritum): ich beantwortete, du beantwortetest, er beantwortete, wir beantworteten, ihr beantwortetet, sie beantworteten. Past participle: beantwortet. Perfect: ich habe beantwortet, du hast beantwortet, er hat beantwortet, wir haben beantwortet, ihr habt beantwortet, sie haben beantwortet. As an adjective, the participle appears as die beantwortete Frage or eine beantwortete E-Mail. The related negative is unbeantwortet (unanswered).

Usage notes: beantworten denotes giving a concrete answer to a specific question, issue, or request, and is often more directive than antworten. Typical collocations include eine Frage beantworten, eine Bitte beantworten, auf einen Vorschlag antworten. In spoken and written German, beantworten emphasizes the act of supplying an answer rather than merely replying. Beantwortet can also appear as a status label in contexts like emails or helpdesk tickets to indicate that a message has been replied to.

See also: beantworten, Antwort, Beantwortung, unbeantwortet.