nyttjas

Nyttjas is the present passive form of the Swedish verb nyttja, meaning to use or utilize. In standard Swedish, nyttja is a transitive verb, so nyttjas expresses that something is used rather than that someone uses something. The form is used for all subjects in the present tense and is common in formal and technical writing, such as academic reports and legal texts.

Usage typically involves impersonal or institutional subjects: for example, Metoderna nyttjas i studien (The methods are used in the study). The active counterpart is nyttjar (the researcher uses), and other tenses include har nyttjats (has been utilized) or nyttjats (utilized). The present passive nyttjas can often be substituted with synonyms like använts or används, though nyttjas carries a nuance of deliberate utilization in formal contexts.

Etymology and cognates: nyttja derives from Old Norse nyta and is related to the Danish nytte and Norwegian nytte, all with the core sense of making use of or utilizing. The word remains characteristic of formal, objective, and technical Swedish rather than everyday speech.

See also: nyttja, passive voice, utilization, svenska verb.