jugés

Jugés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb juger (to judge). It also functions as an adjective in the masculine plural, with feminine forms jugée (singular) and jugées (plural). The stem comes from Latin iudicare.

In grammar, jugés is used to form compound tenses with the auxiliary avoir, as in j'ai jugé. The participle agrees in gender and number with a preceding direct object: les affaires que j'ai jugées. In the passive voice, with être, the participle agrees with the subject: elles ont été jugées.

As an adjective, jugé conveys meanings such as "considered," "deemed," or "judged." A widely used fixed expression is chose jugée, meaning a matter that has been judged and is therefore final (equivalently res judicata in legal terminology).

In legal and formal writing, jugés appears in phrases describing matters or persons that have undergone a judgment. The term is common in historical and jurisprudential contexts and can appear in both descriptive and analytical prose.

See also: juger, chose jugée, res judicata, the related forms jugée and jugées.