förkortade

Förkortade is the finite past tense form of the Swedish verb förkorta, meaning to shorten or to abbreviate. It indicates that something was shortened in the past, for example: Vi förkortade rapporten med tio sidor. The base form is förkorta; present tense is förkortar; the supine (used with have/has) is förkortat. The past participle used in compound tenses is also förkortat.

As an attributive adjective, the related participle form förkortad means "shortened" and agrees with the noun: en förkortad text, ett förkortat ord. Plural usage is several examples: flera förkortade ord. This contrasts with the past tense form förkortade, which is primarily a verb form.

Usage and context: förkortade is common in editing, writing, and reporting when indicating that length, duration, or scope has been reduced. It can describe edits to documents, summaries of longer works, or reductions in time or measurements. The noun form for the process of shortening is förkortning, meaning an abbreviation or shortened form of a word or term.

Relation to related terms: förkortningar are abbreviated forms of longer words or phrases, and are distinct from the verb meaning. The prefix för- attached to kört or kora is productive in creating words that convey reduction or forward modification, as in förkorta, förkortning, and förkortad.

In Swedish usage, context determines whether förkortade functions as a verb (past tense) or, in the adjective form, as a descriptor meaning shortened. The two forms share a common root but serve different grammatical roles in a sentence.