förlöpt

Förlöpt is a Swedish past participle formed from the verb förlöpa. In modern Swedish, förlöpa is mainly found in older literary, religious, or juridical texts, and the participle förlöpt is therefore considered archaic or stylistically marked. The core sense of förlöpa is to run forward or, more commonly in figurative use, to elapse or come to an end. As a result, förlöpt is used to indicate that a period or process has passed its course.

In contemporary usage, people typically express the idea with more common phrases such as tiden har passerat or tiden har löpt ut. The form förlöpt may still appear in historical writings or translations to convey a period that has now ended. Grammatically, förlöpt functions as a past participle and can appear with auxiliary verbs to form perfect tenses, for example: Tiden har förlöpt. It can also appear as an attributive adjective in a noun phrase, as in det förlöpta året, meaning “the past year,” though this usage sounds old-fashioned to many readers.

Overall, förlöpt is a historical or literary term rather than a standard part of everyday Swedish. Its presence signals a formal or period-appropriate tone and may be encountered in classical texts, translations, or certain legal-historical writings.

See also: löpa, förlopp, förfluten, tidens gång.