folosite

Folosite is a Romanian word that functions as the feminine plural past participle of the verb a folosi, meaning "used" or "utilized." In Romanian, past participles can act as adjectives and must agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. Therefore folosit, folosită, folosiți, and folosite are the principal agreement forms, with folosite specifically serving feminine plural nouns.

In practice, folosite appears in contexts such as describing sources, data, or materials that were employed in a study or project. For example, "surse folosite" means "sources used," and "datele folosite în analiză" means "the data used in the analysis." The term is common in academic, technical, and formal writing where it helps specify what was employed rather than what exists by default.

Etymologically, folosite derives from the verb a folosi, which means "to use." The past participle folosit, with its various gender-number forms, provides a concise way to indicate usage or utilization within noun phrases or clauses.

Notes for readers and writers: folosite should agree with a feminine plural noun; for masculine plural contexts, the corresponding form is folosiți, and for feminine singular, folosită. In some contexts, the present-tense forms of a folosi can resemble participle forms, so attention to agreement and surrounding words helps avoid ambiguity.

See also: folosi, folosit, folosiți, folosire, utilizat.