beslutats

Beslutats is a Swedish past participle form used in the passive voice of the verb besluta, meaning to decide. It indicates that a decision has been made, typically by an authority or organization, and it is common in official documents, meeting minutes, and legal texts. The form is used in perfect passive constructions, often with auxiliary verbs such as har (has) or var (was), for example: Det har beslutats att höja skatten, or En ny policy har beslutats av styrelsen.

Beslutats is typically contrasted with beslutat, the active past participle that accompanies har beslutat to express that someone has decided something. In everyday Swedish, speakers more often use active constructions like Styrelsen har beslutat eller Styrelsen beslöt. The passive form decisionally foregrounds the act of deciding and the authority behind it, rather than the agent.

In practice, beslutats appears in sentences such as Det har beslutats att projektet ska genomföras nästa år eller Det beslutades av myndigheterna att ändringen träder i kraft om tre månader. The use of beslutats tends to align with formal or bureaucratic registers, where official acts and decrees are described.

Etymology traces beslutats to besluta (to decide) with the standard Swedish passive-participle suffixes, reflecting the language’s tendency to form formalized, impersonal statements about governance and administration. See also besluta, beslut, beslutsfattande, and beslutande myndighet for related concepts.