précisées

Précisées is the feminine plural past participle of the French verb préciser. It functions as a participial adjective and agrees with a feminine plural noun, conveying the sense that something has been specified, clarified, or made explicit. In contrast to the ordinary adjective précises, précisées marks that the details have been defined rather than merely described.

Uses and context: The form précisée is common in formal or administrative writing, where it signals that certain information, instructions, or conditions have been explicitly defined in a document, contract, or report. It can appear in compound tenses with avoir, where the past participle agrees with a preceding feminine direct object, for example: Les informations ont été précisées. This sentence means the information has been specified or clarified.

Examples: Exemples include Les informations précises (the precise information), Les informations ont été précisées (the information has been specified/clarified), and Les modalités précisées dans le contrat (the modalities specified in the contract). The choice between précises (adjective) and précisée(s) (past participle) depends on whether the writer intends a general quality (précises) or a report that details have been defined (précisée(s)).

Notes: The feminine plural form précisées should not be confused with the feminine plural adjective précises. The former is the past participle of préciser used in contexts like "ont été précisées," while the latter is the ordinary adjective meaning "precise." Proper usage relies on the intended nuance and the grammatical role of the word in the sentence.