bryts

Bryts is the present passive form of the Swedish verb bryta, meaning to break. It is used to describe an action in which the subject is affected by the breaking, and the agent performing the action is either unknown, unimportant, or expressed with a prepositional phrase.

In practice, bryts appears in clauses such as reglarna bryts (the rules are broken) or lagen bryts (the law is being broken). The passive form allows speakers to focus on the event itself rather than who or what causes it, a common feature in descriptive or formal prose.

Morphology and related forms: the active present is bryter (he/she/it breaks), and the active past is bröt (broke). The present passive is bryts (is broken), and the past passive is bröts (was/were broken). The passive form is typically created with the suffix -s rather than a separate auxiliary, and it can be used with inanimate subjects.

Usage notes: the Swedish -s passive is common in contemporary Swedish and can be combined with an agent phrase using av, for example reglarna bryts av myndigheterna (the rules are being broken by the authorities). The passive construction is versatile and often preferred for keeping the focus on the event rather than the actor.

See also: Swedish language, passive voice, bryta (to break). The term bryts illustrates how Swedish uses morphological passivization to express action without specifying the agent, a feature shared with several other Germanic languages.