déposées

Déposées is the feminine plural past participle of déposer, the verb meaning to place, to lay down, to deposit or to file. It functions as an adjective or within compound tense constructions to indicate that something has been placed or submitted. In English, it corresponds to deposited or filed when referring to feminine plural nouns.

Grammatical use and agreement: as a participle, déposées agrees in gender and number with the noun it describes. In sentences using the auxiliary avoir, the participle generally agrees with a preceding direct object. For example, Les pièces déposées hier were discussed, where pièces is feminine plural and precedes the verb, giving the form déposées. In other contexts, such as J’ai déposé les documents, the participle remains in the masculine singular form because the object follows the verb and no agreement is triggered.

Usages and contexts: the form is common in legal, administrative, academic, and everyday language. It appears in expressions such as pièces déposées (submitted documents), actes déposés (filed deeds), or observations déposées (submitted comments). In administrative language, déposer means to file or submit records to an authority, a filing process often described by phrases like dépôt for the act of filing and pièces déposées for the resulting documents.

Etymology and related terms: déposer comes from Old French deposer, itself from Latin deponere “to lay down, to set aside.” Related terms include dépôt (deposit, dépôt) and déposition, with the past participle form agreeing as déposées when used to modify feminine plural nouns.

See also: déposer, dépôt, déposition, dépositaire.