citerade

Citerade is the simple past tense form of the Swedish verb citerar, meaning to cite or to quote. It is used to indicate that a source, statement, or quotation was cited in the past. The present tense is citerar, and the supine or past participle form is citerat.

Etymology and forms: The verb citerar, and by extension citerade, derives from the verb citer(a) in Swedish, which in turn traces back to the French citer, ultimately from the Latin citare meaning to summon or to quote. In Swedish grammar, citerade follows a regular pattern for past tense forms of the verb.

Usage: In academic and formal writing, citerade appears in sentences such as “Forskaren citerade flera tidigare studier” (The researcher cited several earlier studies). Phrases like “citerade källor” are common to refer to the sources that have been quoted or cited. The form is typically used when describing motions in the past, whereas citerar is used for present-tense statements and citera serves as the imperative form or as the base infinitive in certain constructions.

Notes: Citerade is a language-specific form and should be used within Swedish texts. It is closely related to the noun citat (quotation) and to the term källhänvisning (citation/reference) in scholarly writing. In multilingual contexts, equivalent past-tense forms of “to cite” will differ according to the target language.

See also: citat, citera, citerar, citerat, källhänvisning.