rapportées

Rapportées is the feminine plural form of the past participle rapporté, from the French verb rapporter. In general usage it functions as an adjective or as part of a noun phrase, and it agrees with the noun it modifies. The sense of rapportées centers on the idea of something that has been brought back, reported, or added after the fact.

In everyday and formal French, rapportées can describe information or data that has been reported by a source, as in faits rapportés or données rapportées. It can also indicate elements that were added to something originally incomplete, such as pièces rapportées or éléments rapportés, meaning parts or components that were appended later to an existing whole. In architecture, piéces rapportées refers to rooms or sections added to a building after its initial construction.

The term also has more specialized uses. In social or familial language, une pièce rapportée describes an outsider who is introduced into a family or social circle, with the plural form referring to such additions. In ethnology, museology, and archaeology, objets rapportés or objets rapportés par les voyageurs denote artifacts brought back from distant regions by collectors or explorers, a usage that carries historical and ethical considerations regarding collection practices.

Grammatically, rapportées is the feminine plural form used when the noun is feminine and plural. It commonly appears after the noun as a postposed adjective (les pièces rapportées) and conveys the sense of something that has been brought back, added, or reported rather than intrinsic to the original item. The term illustrates how a single participial form can cover multiple related meanings across different contexts.