fraktade

Fraktade is the past tense form of the Swedish verb frakta, meaning to transport or ship goods or people. In logistics and trade, frakta describes the action of sending items from one location to another, typically by ship, aircraft, truck, or rail. The form fraktade indicates that the transportation action has been completed, as in “Företaget fraktade varor till kundens lager igår.”

Grammatically, frakta is a regular verb of the -a conjugation in Swedish. It has present tense fraktar, past tense fraktade, and past participle fraktat, used with auxiliary verbs when forming compound tenses. Frakta commonly takes direct objects such as varor (goods) or gods and appears with prepositional phrases indicating sender or recipient, for example “fraktade från Sverige till Norge.”

Etymology and cognates: The verb frakta is of Germanic origin and has cognates in neighboring Scandinavian languages, such as Norwegian frakta and Danish frakte, as well as related German terms like verfrachten. The related noun frakt denotes freight or shipping charges, and is frequently used in logistics and transport contexts.

Usage and context: Fraktade appears in formal writing, contracts, and operational reports describing completed shipments. It can be used in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, wholesale, and e-commerce, whenever a sentence requires a past statement about goods or passengers having been transported.

See also: frakt, fraktkostnad, fraktfirma, logistik, sjöfart.