informiert

Informiert is a form of the German verb informieren as well as an adjective meaning well informed. As a verb, informieren means to inform or to notify someone. In the present tense, the third-person singular form is er informiert; in the perfect tense, the past participle informiert is used with haben, as in Ich habe ihn informiert. The pronominal verb sich informieren means to inform oneself or to seek information, and ich habe mich informiert means I have looked it up.

As an adjective, informierter (or well-informed) describes someone who has information or knowledge about a topic. In predicative use: Sie ist gut informiert. In attributive use: ein gut informierter Bürger; adjective inflection follows standard German agreement.

Etymology: informieren derives from the Latin informare through French influence on German; the term has long connected senses of shaping, instructing, or providing information. In modern German, informiert is common in journalism, education, administration and everyday speech, used with prepositions such as über (inform about) or sich über etwas informieren (to inform oneself about something).

Examples: Der Lehrer informiert die Klasse über die Prüfung. Ich habe mich über die Reise informiert. Die Redaktion hält die Öffentlichkeit über die Ergebnisse informiert.