berövades

Berövades is a Swedish word that functions as the past tense of the passive voice for the verb beröva, meaning to deprive or to take away from someone. It is used to describe a situation in which someone was deprived of something, often in formal, legal, or historical contexts. The form highlights the receiver of the deprivation rather than the person who performed the act.

Grammatical notes

- Infinitive: beröva

- Present active: berövar

- Past active (preterite): berövade

- Supine: berövat

- Present passive: berövas

- Past passive: berövades

- Past participle/adjective: berövad

Examples

- Aktiv present: Domstolen berövar honom hans frihet. (The court deprives him of his freedom.)

- Passiv past: Han berövades sin frihet. (He was deprived of his freedom.)

Usage

Beröva governs the thing deprived (often with the object denoting what is taken) and can be used with or without the preposition av, depending on construction. It appears in legal, political, and journalistic texts to describe rights, freedoms, property, or benefits being removed from a person or group.

Etymology

The verb originates in Swedish with the prefix be- attached to röva/öva, forming beröva and its related forms. The past passive form berövades follows standard Swedish passive conjugation patterns for verbs of this class.

See also

- beröva (the base verb)

- berövad (past participle/adjective form)

- Swedish passive voice and verb conjugation patterns