overlevd

Overlevd is a past participle form of the verb overleve used in Norwegian Bokmål and, in the adjacent Danish variety, the corresponding form is overlevet. In Swedish the direct cognate verb is överleva, whose past participle is överlevt. The spelling overlevd may appear in Norwegian texts written without diacritics or in multilingual contexts where Danish and Norwegian forms converge.

Etymology and related forms: The word is built from the prefix over- meaning “over” or “beyond” and the verb leve meaning “to live.” It belongs to the same family of Germanic verbs as other terms for surviving or living through events. The noun related to the concept is overlevelse in Norwegian and Danish, and överlevnad in Swedish.

Usage and meaning: Overlevd is used to indicate that someone or something has survived an event, situation, or period. It appears in perfect tense constructions such as har overlevd in Norwegian (has survived) or har overlevet in Danish (has survived). It can also function as an adjective describing a survivor or a surviving item, for example in references to a survivor of a disaster or a surviving specimen.

Context and notes: In Norwegian, overlevd is common in formal and narrative writing when discussing survival outcomes. Danish uses overlevet as the standard participle, while Swedish uses överlevt as the standard participle in perfect tenses; the unaccented form overlevd may appear in multilingual materials or in domains where diacritics are omitted.

See also: overlevelse (survival), overleve (to survive), överleva (Swedish verb), överlevnad (Swedish noun for survival).