räknats

Räknats is a Swedish verb form that appears as the past participle of the verb räkna when used in a passive construction. In ordinary present tense, the passive is räknas; räknats marks a completed action in the past within a passive clause. The form is most commonly seen in perfect passive constructions such as har räknats or hade räknats, meaning “has been counted” or “had been counted.”

Morphology and usage

Räkna is a regular verb in Swedish. Its past participle, used for passives, ends in -ts in the form räknats. This participle combines with auxiliary haber to form the perfect or pluperfect passive: det har räknats till ett felaktigt resultat (it has been counted as an erroneous result). Räknats can also appear in more complex passive phrases and in formal or statistical writing, where processes are described as having been completed by an agent or by a calculation.

Examples

- Antalet har räknats till cirka 1 200. (The number has been counted to about 1,200.)

- Resultatet har räknats som tillförlitligt av granskningen. (The result has been counted as reliable by the audit.)

- Omräkningen hade räknats tidigare än planerat. (The recalculation had been counted earlier than planned.)

Relation to other forms

Räknas is the present passive form, räknade is the active past tense, och räknat is the supine or perfect participle used with har to form the active perfect: har räknat. Räknats differs from räkat and other participles in that it specifically marks a completed passive action.

See also

Räkna, räknas, räknade, räknat, Swedish grammar, passive voice, participles.

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