lösten

Lösten is a historical or dialectal past tense form of the Swedish verb lösa, meaning to solve or to loosen. In modern standard Swedish, the corresponding past tense is löste, and lösten is not used in contemporary everyday language. The form may appear in older literature, regional dialects, or stylistic treatments intended to evoke archaic Swedish.

Grammatical notes: Lösten is typically described as a preterite form found in certain dialects or in archaic written Swedish. It is not part of the current standard verb conjugation used in everyday speech and writing. Its use is largely of interest to linguists, philologists, and readers examining historical texts.

Usage and examples: Examples of lösten are limited to historical quotations or constructions that aim to reproduce an older linguistic register. In present-day Swedish, a sentence such as “de lösten problemet” would be considered nonstandard; the modern form would be “de löste problemet.”

See also: lösa, löser, löste, lösning. For readers encountering lösten in a text, it is usually best interpreted as an archaic or dialectal past tense of lösa rather than a current standard form. The term does not denote a separate concept in modern Swedish vocabulary.