contestadas

Contestadas is the feminine plural form of contestado, the past participle of contestar in Spanish. It functions as an adjective meaning "that has been answered" or "that has been disputed." It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies, e.g., preguntas contestadas (answered questions) or afirmaciones contestadas (assertions that have been disputed). The masculine plural is contestados, and the feminine singular is contestada.

In everyday language, contestadas describes items that have already received a response. For example: las preguntas contestadas por el testigo permiten avanzar en la investigación. In more formal or technical registers, the related noun contestación is used to denote the act of answering; contestadas may appear when referring to multiple responses that have been filed or submitted.

In legal contexts, especially civil procedure in Spanish-speaking jurisdictions, contestación (the defendant’s reply to a complaint or petition) is the standard term. While contestadas can be understood as the plural of the participle describing the responses that have been submitted, the noun contestaciones is more common for referring to those responses as a set.

Notes and nuance: contestadas emphasizes the state of being answered rather than the act itself, and it is interchangeable with phrases like respuestas in many contexts, though usage can vary by dialect and domain. It is not a proper noun; it remains a grammatical form of contestar.