bestämts

Bestämts is a Swedish verb form, the passive past participle of the verb bestämma, meaning to determine or decide. In practice, bestämts is used to express that something has been determined or decided by someone or some authority, rather than by the subject itself. It often appears in formal or administrative language, such as government decisions, regulations, or organizational outcomes.

Grammar and usage. Bestämts functions as part of a passive construction. It can appear in present or past tense constructions with auxiliary verbs or in impersonal phrases. Examples include det har bestämts (it has been determined), vad som har bestämts (what has been determined), or riktlinjerna har bestämts (the guidelines have been determined). The form is distinct from bestämd, which is the ordinary past participle used as an adjective meaning definite or predetermined, and from the present passive forms like bestäms, which describe ongoing determination.

Context and nuance. Bestämts emphasizes the result of a decision rather than the process, and it often points to an outcome accepted or issued by an authority. It appears frequently in governmental, legal, policy, and administrative texts, where outcomes or rules are described as having been established.

Relation to related forms. The verb bestämma has a range of forms in different voices and tenses. Bestämts is the passive participle form used in contexts where the subject is not performing the action but is affected by an action performed by others. It is related to but distinct from the adjective bestämd, which denotes definiteness or fixed quality.

See also: bestämma, passiv (passive voice), svenska språket.