bloquées

Bloquées is the feminine plural form of the French adjective bloqué, meaning blocked or obstructed. It is used to describe something that has been prevented from functioning or that is physically obstructed. As an adjective, bloquées agrees with the noun it modifies (for example: des routes bloquées, des artères bloquées, des portes bloquées).

As a past participle, bloqué becomes bloqué(e)(s) depending on the gender and number of the noun and the grammatical construction. In passé composé with avoir, the participle agrees with a preceding direct object (des portes que j'ai bloquées). In passive voice or with être, it agrees with the subject (les routes ont été bloquées).

Common contexts include transportation (routes bloquées), medicine (artères bloquées), finance or access control (comptes bloqués, accès bloqué), digital platforms (utilisateurs bloqués, contenu bloqué, messages bloqués), and politics or public administration (blocages, fonds bloqués).

Etymology: the verb bloquer comes from the French verb bloquer, likely borrowed from the English block or related to bloc; its use expanded in late modern French to cover various kinds of obstruction, from physical to procedural.

Bloquées remains widely used in both formal and informal French to denote a blockage, impediment, or restriction in different domains, from everyday situations to technical and legal contexts.