komplettera

Komplettera is a Swedish verb meaning to make something complete by adding missing parts, items, or information. It is used to describe the act of supplementing or finishing to reach a required or desired level of completeness. The term is common in education, publishing, project work, inventory management, and everyday language.

Conjugation and forms are as follows: the infinitive is komplettera; present tense is kompletterar; past tense is kompletterade; supine and the participle form used in perfect constructions is kompletterat; the past participle used as an adjective is kompletterad; the present participle form is kompletterande, often used attributively as a modifier (kompletterande information). The imperative form is komplettera.

Usage and construction: komplettera is typically followed by a direct object or a prepositional phrase. A frequent construction is to complete something by adding material, data, or references, for example with the preposition med: komplettera med. It is common in academic writing, reporting, and everyday speech to say that something should be complemented or completed by additional elements.

Examples: "Vi behöver komplettera rapporten med ny data." "Läraren bad eleverna komplettera uppgiften med referenser." "Maten behöver kompletteras med bröd." The verb can also describe restoring a set or collection to completeness, such as filling gaps in an inventory.

Related terms: the adjective kompletterande means complementary or supplementary, and the noun komplettering refers to the act or process of completing. The word is closely related to kompletta (complete) and to other Swedish terms for adding or extending information.

See also: completeness, supplementation, reference addition.