byggas

byggas is the passive infinitive form of the Swedish verb bygga, meaning to be built or to be constructed. It is used to describe processes where the agent doing the building is unspecified or unimportant, emphasizing the event of construction rather than who performs it.

Grammatical notes: Swedish forms the passive with -s on finite verbs (byggs) or with the infinitive passive att byggas after modal or other helper verbs. The past participle used in the perfect passive is byggts, as in har byggts, meaning has been built. Att byggas also appears in subordinate clauses or with constructions like planeras att byggas, where the action is expected to occur.

Common usage: The term is frequently encountered in architectural and urban planning contexts, construction contracts, and media reporting. Examples include: Huset byggs i stadens centrum. Flera nya bostäder planeras att byggas. Huset har byggts av ett lokalt företag. These forms illustrate the present passive, the infinitive passive, and the perfect passive respectively.

Origin and related forms:byggas derives from the verb bygga, which in turn comes from older Germanic roots meaning to construct. Related Swedish terms include bygga (to build) and byggnad (building), which share a semantic field around construction and infrastructure.

See also: bygga, byggnad, byggnadsrelaterade termer.