købt

Købt is the past participle of the Danish verb købe, meaning to buy. It denotes a purchase that has been completed and is primarily used in perfect and pluperfect tenses, formed with auxiliary verbs such as har or havde.

Forms and basic usage: The infinitive is at købe; the present tense is køber; the past tense is købte; the past participle is købt. In everyday Danish, compound tenses use the past participle with an auxiliary: Jeg har købt en bil (I have bought a car); Jeg havde købt en bil (I had bought a car). It can also appear in passive or stative constructions, as in Bilen er købt (the car is purchased / has been bought).

Adjective function: Købt is primarily a verbal participle, but it can occur in specialized or fixed expressions as a participial adjective. In standard usage, more explicit phrasing such as “som er købt” is common when describing a completed purchase, rather than relying on a bare form of the participle before a noun.

Etymology and cognates: Købt derives from the Danish verb købe, which comes from a common Germanic root found in related languages. It is cognate with Norwegian kjøpe and Swedish köpa, reflecting shared Germanic origins for the verb “to buy.”

See also: købe, køb, purchase vocabulary in Danish.