finansierast

Finansierast is the passive past participle form of the Norwegian Nynorsk verb finansiera, meaning to finance. It is used to describe something that has been financed by someone else, typically by an organization, government, or another financier. The form is characteristic of Nynorsk, and its English equivalents would be “financed” in the passive voice.

Formation and usage

Finansierast is formed as the participial form attached to the noun it modifies or used with auxiliary verbs to express tense. In practice, it appears in sentences like “Prosjektet var finansierast av staten” (The project was financed by the state) or “Prosjektet har finansierast av private aktører” (The project has been financed by private actors). It functions similarly to other passive participles in Nynorsk and is often found in formal, administrative, or academic texts. In Bokmål, the corresponding constructions would typically use the standard passive participle finansiert rather than finansierast.

Etymology

The word derives from finansiera, the verb meaning to finance, with the suffix -ast forming a passive past participle in some Norwegian Nynorsk dialects and registers. The morphology mirrors other -er/-ar/-ast participles used in Nynorsk to express completed action affecting a subject.

Notes

Finansierast is not commonly used in everyday Bokmål Norwegian, where finansiert is preferred for “financed.” In contexts written in or translated to Nynorsk, finansierast helps preserve the language’s stylistic and grammatical norms for passive construction.

See also

finansiera, finansiering, Norwegian Nynorsk grammar, passive voice.