collectées

Collectées is the feminine plural past participle of the verb collecter and is used as an adjective to mean collected, gathered, or compiled. It appears in phrases where a feminine plural noun is described, such as données collectées (collected data) or informations collectées (gathered information).

Etymology and grammar: collecter comes from the Latin colligere, through French collecter. The participle forms are collecté (masculine singular), collectée (feminine singular), collectés (masculine plural), and collectées (feminine plural). When used as an adjective, collectées agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies.

Common usages:

- Data and statistics: les données collectées during the enquête; the phrase indicates data that have been gathered for analysis.

- Research and documentation: les documents collectés or les sources collectées refer to items that researchers have compiled.

- Journalistic or archival contexts: les témoignages collectés, les preuves collectées describe information that has been collected through interviews or fieldwork.

Distinctions: collectées is related to, but distinct from, collecte, the noun meaning act of collecting or the collection itself. While collecte designates the process or collection as a concept, collectées functions as an attribute describing what has been gathered. The masculine counterpart collecté and the feminine singular collectée are used in other grammatical contexts.

In usage, collectées typically appears in formal or technical writing, especially in fields dealing with data, research results, or compiled materials. It does not stand alone as a noun; its role is to qualify a noun that it accompanies. See also: collecte, collectivité, collecteur for related terms.