geheilt

Geheilt is the past participle of the German verb heilen, meaning to heal or cure. In everyday German it functions mainly as an adjective or as part of perfect or passive verb forms, conveying that someone or something has recovered from illness or injury.

As a predicate adjective, geheilt is common in statements about status, for example: Der Patient ist geheilt. Wounds or conditions can be described as healed: Die Wunde ist geheilt. In transitive use, the verb form with haben appears: Der Arzt hat den Patienten geheilt. The passive voice is also possible: Der Patient wurde geheilt, or Der Patient ist geheilt worden.

Geheilt can also be used as a noun in the plural Geheilte, meaning “the healed (ones)” or “the recovered,” as in Die Geheilten erzählten ihre Geschichten. When used attributively before a noun, the participle can be inflected (for example, ein geheilter Patient, eine geheilte Person), though the exact ending depends on gender, case, and article.

Etymology and related terms: geheilt comes from heil, related to health and wholeness. Related nouns include Heilung (healing), Gesundheit (health), and the adjective gesund (healthy). The word Heil has other meanings in different contexts, but in ge hin relation to healing the sense here is health and recovery rather than a religious or sacred sense.

Usage notes: geheilt emphasizes the completion of the healing process and a restored state. In medical writing it is common alongside synonyms like genesen or gesund, depending on emphasis and nuance.