gewartet

Gewartet is the past participle of the German verb warten, which means to wait. It is a regular (weak) past participle, formed with the prefix ge- and the ending -t, resulting in gewartet.

In modern German, gewartet is used with the auxiliary haben to form perfect tenses: Ich habe gewartet. Wir haben lange gewartet. In the simple past (preterite), the verb takes its own finite form (ich wartete, du wartetest, er wartete; wir warteten, ihr wartetet, sie warteten). The passive voice can be formed with werden plus the past participle: Es wird gewartet.

As a participle, gewartet mainly occurs in compound tenses. The present participle wartend is used to describe ongoing waiting, as in die wartenden Gäste. The past participle gewartet is not commonly used attributively as an adjective; instead, the present participle wartend is preferred for ongoing action.

Etymology: warten derives from older Germanic roots, with cognates in related languages, and is attested in Old High German as wartan. The past participle gewartet follows the regular pattern for weak verbs in German.

Common phrases include auf etwas warten (to wait for something) and auf jemanden warten. The concept is widespread in everyday language and appears in many everyday expressions and idioms.