créés

Créés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb créer, meaning to create. It also functions as an adjective meaning "created" or "made" when it modifies masculine plural nouns, as in objets créés.

In grammar, créés appears in compound tenses with the auxiliary être in passive constructions: par exemple, Les statues ont été créées (the statues were created). In sentences with the auxiliary avoir, the past participle generally agrees only with a preceding direct object. For instance, Les statues qu’ils ont créées indique agreement with the feminine plural direct object statues. The corresponding forms are: créé (masculine singular), créée (feminine singular), créés (masculine plural), créées (feminine plural).

As an adjective, créés agrees with the noun it describes: des objets créés (masculine plural), des statues créées (feminine plural). The term is widely used to indicate that something has been produced or brought into existence, whether in art, industry, or data, for example des œuvres créées par l’artiste or des produits créés en laboratoire.

Etymology traces créés to the verb créer, from Latin creare, meaning to cause to grow or to produce. The form differs from the present tense il créent (they create) and from the singular past participle créé, which is used in non-plural contexts or with different agreement rules. In modern French, créés remains a common, neutral term in descriptions of things that have been produced or brought into being.