färdades

Färdades is the past tense form of the Swedish verb färdas, which means to travel or to undertake a journey. Färdas denotes moving from one location to another, typically over some distance or through different places. It is an intransitive verb, used with prepositional phrases such as färdas genom, färdas till, färdas med bil, or färdas till fots. The present tense is färdas, the past tense is färdades, and the supine or past participle used in perfect tenses is färdats, as in har färdats.

Conjugation and usage notes: In modern Swedish, färdas behaves like a regular intransitive verb in the imperfect and perfect tenses. Examples: "Vi färdas genom landet" (we travel through the country) and "Vi färdades genom landet i två dagar" (we traveled through the country for two days). The form färdats appears in constructions like "har färdats långt" (have traveled far). The verb is commonly found in literary, descriptive, or formal contexts; in everyday speech, many speakers prefer the synonym resa.

Etymology and relation to related words: Färdas is built from the noun färd, meaning a journey, with a verbal suffix. Färd itself comes from older Germanic roots related to travel and passage, with cognates in other Scandinavian languages. Related Swedish words include färd (journey) and resa (to travel), the latter being more common in casual speech.

See also: färd, resa, färdats, färdades.