formatiert

Formatiert is the past participle of the German verb formatieren and can function as an adjective meaning "formatted" or as part of a verb phrase such as "ist formatiert" or "hat formatiert." The noun form describing the act is Formatierung. The term derives from Format, the concept of layout, and the German verb suffix -ieren, reflecting its origin in applying a predefined arrangement.

In language and text processing, formatiert describes text or documents that have had their appearance defined by styling: font families and sizes, bold or italic emphasis, color, alignment, margins, and list structures. In computing, formatieren has a more technical sense: to prepare a storage medium by creating or erasing a filesystem. A drive that has been formatiert is ready for data storage, while a disk that is not formatiert may be unreadable by the system. The past tense "ich habe die Festplatte formatiert" conveys completed action; in everyday usage, a file or document may be described as formatiert when it already includes layout rules.

Origin and related terms: formatieren etymologically combines Format with the -ieren suffix. Related terms include Formatierung (the process of applying formatting) and format (the noun for a fixed layout or size). In computing and office software, formatiert is common shorthand for files, text, or drives that have had formatting applied. The term is neutral and widely understood in German-language technical contexts.