bezahlte

Bezahlte is the past participle of the German verb bezahlen, meaning "paid." In German, it can function as a participle in verb forms or as an attributive adjective describing something that has already been paid.

As a verb form, bezahlte appears in the simple past: Ich bezahlte die Rechnung. In everyday speech and most writing, the perfect tense with bezahlen is more common: Ich habe die Rechnung bezahlt. The past participle bezahlt is also used in compound tenses and as a predicate adjective: Die Rechnung ist bezahlt.

As an attributive adjective, bezahlte is declined to agree with the noun it modifies. After a definite article, it takes the ending -e in the singular and -en in the plural: die bezahlte Rechnung (the paid invoice), die bezahlten Rechnungen (the paid invoices). In the singular with an indefinite article, you have eine bezahlte Rechnung. In bare plural use without an article, you can say bezahlte Rechnungen.

Usage notes: bezahlte is primarily used to indicate payment status. It should not be confused with bezahlt, which also means "paid" but is more commonly used as the predicate form in sentences like Die Rechnung ist bezahlt. The choice between bezahlte and bezahlt depends on whether the word is used as a descriptive adjective before a noun or as a finite/predicate verb form.