körd

Körd is a Swedish term associated with the verb köra, meaning to drive or operate. In contemporary Swedish, the past participle most commonly used with köra is kört. The form körd or körd can appear in historical texts, dialectal writing, or less standard usages, but is not considered the default participle in modern formal Swedish.

The participle kört is used to form perfect tenses with auxiliary verbs such as har or hade, and it can also function in adjectival phrases to indicate that someone or something has been driven or operated. For example, Jag har kört bilen till jobbet demonstrates the use of kört in a present perfect construction meaning “I have driven the car to work.” The same participle appears in other sentences describing completed driving or operation.

Etymology and relations: köra comes from a Germanic root shared with related Scandinavian verbs for driving or moving, with cognates in Danish køre and Norwegian kjøre. The development of the participle forms mirrors broader patterns in the Swedish verb conjugation system.

Usage notes: Because kört is the standard form in modern Swedish, körd is typically considered nonstandard or dialectal outside certain historical or regional contexts. In formal writing, the preferred form for the past participle of köra is kört, and it participates in the same syntactic slots as other past participles in Swedish.

See also: köra, körning, bilkörning, driving.