dödat

Dödat is the supine (past participle) form of the Swedish verb döda, meaning to kill. In modern Swedish, dödat is primarily used with auxiliary verbs to form the perfect and pluperfect tenses, as in han har dödat flera fiender (he has killed several enemies) or hon hade dödat en mygga (she had killed a mosquito). When used to express a simple past action in finite form, other inflected forms of döda are employed, such as dödade.

The form dödat is not typically used as a stand-alone finite past tense. It serves as the participial form that combines with hjelpe verbs to indicate completed actions. In addition, the participle can appear in passive or dependent clauses, for example in contexts describing actions that have been carried out.

Dödat is related to the related adjective forms in Swedish; the basic adjective meaning “dead” is död, and other participial adjectives derived from döda may appear in specific constructions. The use of dödat to modify nouns is limited and often context-dependent, with the primary function of dödat being to mark completed actions in compound tenses rather than to describe a state on its own.

Etymology and classification: döda comes from Old Norse deyða, and dödat as a supine form developed in the modern Swedish verbal system. It belongs to the class of verbs that form compound tenses with har/hade, rather than forming a simple finite past tense with the same participial form.

See also: död, dödas, döda.