colhidas

Colhidas is the feminine plural form of the past participle of the Portuguese verb colher, meaning to harvest or to pick. It is used as an adjective to describe items that have already been gathered, such as fruits, seeds, or crops. The masculine counterpart is colhidos.

Grammatical use and agreement follow standard Portuguese rules. When colhidas modifies a noun, it agrees in gender and number: obras colhidas, frutas colhidas, uvas colhidas. In compound tenses with auxiliary verbs, the participle may also reflect agreement with a preceding direct object, for example: as frutas já colhidas foram vendidas. The form functions both in attributive positions (the harvested fruits) and in predicative or periphrastic constructions (frutas foram colhidas).

Common contexts for colhidas include agricultural reports, culinary descriptions, and historical or literary texts that describe harvest activity. The term is most often encountered in everyday language through phrases like frutas colhidas, sementes colhidas, ou colhidas na estação.

Related terms include colheita (the act of harvesting or harvest season), colhido (masculine singular form of the past participle), and variations in other romance languages that share the same Latin roots. Colhidas thus functions primarily as a descriptive form, conveying that something has already been gathered through harvesting.