beendet

Beendet is the past participle of the German verb beenden, meaning to end, finish, or conclude. It functions both as a participle in compound tenses and as an adjective describing something that has been finished or completed.

As a participle, beendet is used with auxiliary haben to form the perfect and pluperfect tenses: Ich habe das Projekt beendet. Wir hatten die Verhandlungen beendet. In passive constructions the participle appears with werden: Der Vertrag wird beendet.

As an adjective, beendet can modify nouns to indicate completion. For example: eine beendete Sitzung, ein beendeter Prozess, ein beendetes Kapitel. The participle agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun it modifies, following normal German adjective endings: ein beendeter Vertrag, eine beendete Vereinbarung, das beendete Verfahren.

Beenden, and by extension beend- forms, are common in everyday German, business language, and journalism. Beendet is often preferred over beendet in contexts where the emphasis is on the completion state rather than the action itself. In many modern user interfaces, Beendet is used as a status label to indicate that a task, process, or program has finished, for example “Prozess beendet” or “Aufgabe beendet.”

Related terms include finish, conclude, and terminate, which appear in German as beenden, Abschluss, Ende, and Beendigung. The word differs from beendet in tense or voice: beendet is the participial form; beendete is the simple past (preterite) form, used in narrations to say that something ended in the past.