hämtades

Hämtades is the Swedish past passive form of the verb hämta, meaning to fetch, retrieve, or pick up. It translates to “was fetched” or “was retrieved” in English. This form is used to describe an action that was performed on the subject by an agent, often unspecified, in the past. The present passive form is hämtas, and the past participle used in perfect tenses is hämtat.

The word appears in everyday language as well as in formal and technical contexts. In logistics and administration, it can describe items that were collected or retrieved, for example from a pickup point or an archive. In libraries or stores, or during deliveries, phrases such as “paketet hämtades” or “föremålet hämtades vid utlämningsstället” are common. In computing and data handling, it is used to describe data that was retrieved from a database or server, as in “data hämtades från systemet.”

Common related forms include the active present “hämtar” (fetches), the past participle “hämtat” (retrieved, fetched) used in perfect tenses, and the adjective form “hämtad” when used to describe something that has been retrieved. The word belongs to a larger family of verbs with similar functions for collecting or retrieving items, information, or people.

See also: hämta (to fetch), hämtning (retrieval or fetch operation), datahämtning (data retrieval).