placerar

Placerar is the present tense form of the Swedish verb placera, meaning to put, set, or arrange something into a specific position or order. The base verb covers both physical placement, such as placing a book on a shelf, and more abstract placements, such as arranging items in a list, seats in a hall, or roles in a project. The word is widely used in everyday language as well as in professional and technical contexts.

Grammar and forms: Placera is a regular verb of the -era group. The present tense is placerar. The imperfect is placerade, and the supine is placerat. The past participle is placerad, used in compound tenses like har placerat. The verb is typically transitive and requires a direct object, as in placera boken på bordet. It can also appear in reflexive constructions meaning to position oneself, such as placera sig i kön. Related forms include placering (placement or positioning) and omplacera (to relocate or reposition).

Usage notes: In spatial contexts, placering refers to the act or result of placing something in a space. In organizational or scheduling contexts, placering can denote placement in a ranking, lineup, or order. The term is common across domains, from housekeeping and design to logistics and data management, where items are deliberately positioned according to criteria or plan.

Related terms: placera, placering, plats, platserepresent within the same semantic field. See also omplacera for relocating, och plats for place. The word is widely understood in Swedish-speaking contexts and is found in dictionaries and formal writing as well as everyday speech.