bündelte

Bündelte is the simple past tense (Präteritum) form of the German verb bündeln. Bündeln means to gather separate elements into a single unit, typically by tying, binding, or arranging them so that they form a bundle. The action can be literal—such as bundling sticks, branches, or cables—or figurative, such as consolidating resources, data, or processes.

Etymology and forms: Bündeln derives from the noun Bündel (bundle) with the common verb-forming suffix -eln. The past tense is bündelte (third-person singular: er bündelte), and the past participle is gebündelt. In everyday language, the perfect tense is more commonly used as hat gebündelt, while Bündelte appears mainly in narrative passages.

Usage and examples: In practical contexts, one might say, Er bündelte die Zweige zu einem Bündel. In technical or business language, the verb can describe consolidation or aggregation, for example, Die Abteilung bündelte die Daten zu einem Bericht, or Das Unternehmen bündelte Ressourcen, um Kosten zu senken. In optics or physics, Bündeln can refer to forming a beam or bundle of signals, though the present tense is more common than the simple past in technical writing.

Relation to related terms: The noun Bündel denotes the object formed by bundling. Bündelung refers to the act or process of bundling or aggregating, and gebündelt is the past participle used with auxiliary haben to form the perfect tense. Overall, bündelte marks a completed bundling action in the past within German prose.