bildades

Bildades is a Swedish verb form, the past passive of bilda, meaning to form or to create. It translates roughly to was formed or were formed in English. As a past passive, bildades indicates that the subject underwent the action rather than performed it.

Usage of bildades is common in historical, descriptive, and academic writing to describe events, institutions, or natural formations that came into being. Examples: “Staden bildades under medeltiden” (The city was formed during the Middle Ages). “Företaget bildades av en grupp entreprenörer” (The company was formed by a group of entrepreneurs).

Grammar and construction: bildades is the imperfect past passive form. It is formed from the infinitive bilda plus the suffix -des, and it agrees with the subject in number and person as a finite verb. In compound tenses one uses the auxiliary har, e.g., “staden har bildats” (the city has been formed). When the agent is stated, it is often introduced with av: “staden bildades av kungarna” (the city was formed by the kings).

Related forms: the present passive is bildas (is formed), and the perfect passive is har bildats (has been formed). The past participle bildad exists as an adjective meaning formed, and in another sense can appear as educated in phrases like “en bildad man” (a cultured man), though that meaning is separate from the verb’s formation sense.

See also: bilda, bildning, grammatik.