fixés

Fixés is a French term that functions as the masculine plural past participle of the verb fixer, and also as an adjective meaning fixed, attached, or established. It appears in a wide range of contexts, from everyday language to technical writing.

As a verb form, fixés surfaces in compound tenses when the auxiliary is avoir and the preceding direct object affects agreement. For example: ils ont fixé les objets → ils les ont fixés. In passive or intransitive constructions with être, it can also appear as fixing a state: les objets sont fixés au mur. The form varies with the gender and number of the noun: fixés for masculine plural nouns, fixées for feminine plural nouns, and fixed spelling also appears in singular forms (fixé, fixée, fixe).

As an adjective, fixés describes things that have been secured, attached, or established. Examples include un cadre fixé au mur (a frame fixed to the wall) and des vis fixées? or des vis fixées au mur (the screws fixed). The plural adjective agrees with the noun it modifies: portes fixées, vis fixées, dates fixées, etc. The use of fixe as the base adjective is common in contexts such as schedules or standards: des dates fixées (set dates) or des points fixes (fixed points, notably in mathematical language).

In specialized terminology, fixés often appears in mathematical or scientific French to describe things that remain constant or are the result of a fixing operation. In mathematics, the standard term for a fixed point is point fixe, with the plural points fixes. Overall, fixés or fixes reflect the general concept of being fixed, secured, or established in French usage.