gewartete

Gewartete is a German attributive adjective form derived from the past participle gewartet of the verb warten (to wait). In standard German, the past participle is gewartet; gewartete is the feminine singular nominative or accusative form used before a noun to mean “waited-for.”

Because it is an inflected form, gewartete occurs in phrases such as a einsatz that has been waited for. Examples include: eine gewartete Lieferung (a delivery that has been waited for), ein gewarteter Prozess (a process that has been waited for), and die gewarteten Lieferungen (the waited-for deliveries). The endings follow regular German adjective declension: feminine singular takes -e, masculine and neuter singular take -er and -es respectively, and plural takes the appropriate ending after definite or indefinite articles.

Usage notes:

Gewartete is relatively uncommon in everyday speech. Many speakers prefer the more idiomatic erwahrte or ausdrückliche Formen like „erwartete Lieferung“ to express anticipation rather than the passive sense of something having been waited for. Gewartete tends to appear more in formal, literary, or technical writing where a precise distinction between waiting as an action and anticipation as a mental state is desired.

Etymology and related forms:

Gewartete is built from warten with the ge- prefix to form the past participle and then inflected as a normal attributive adjective. Related forms include gewartet (past participle) and the verb warten itself, which is used to express waiting or delaying.

See also: warten, gewartet, erwartet, Erwartung.