gehuwde

Gehuwd is a Dutch word meaning married. It functions as both an adjective and a noun form related to the state of marriage. It is derived from the verb huwen, which means to marry, and uses the past participle gehuwd. In everyday use, gehuwd describes someone who is legally married, and it appears in contexts ranging from informal statements to formal documentation. The more common everyday synonym is getrouwd, but gehuwd is widely used in formal, juridical, or neutral registers and in official texts.

As an adjective, gehuwd typically accompanies a noun to describe the marital status of a person. The familiar examples are de gehuwde man and de gehuwde vrouw, meaning the married man and the married woman. In predicative use, one can say Zij is gehuwd (She is married); in some registers, getrouwd can also be used in speech. Plural forms such as de gehuwden refer to married people as a group or to a married couple.

As a noun, gehuwd can appear in the plural gehuwden to denote married people generally, or, in more formal usage, a married person referred to as a gehuwde. In Dutch civil and administrative language, gehuwd status is contrasted with ongehuwd (unmarried) and other civil statuses. The term is widely understood in the Netherlands and Flanders and often appears in legal, demographic, and policy contexts.

Etymology and related terms: gehuwd comes from huwen (to marry) with the participial form gehuwd. Related terms include gehuwde (adjectival inflected form) and gehuwden (plural noun). The everyday variant getrouwd is more common in colloquial speech.