remplacés

Remplacés is the masculine plural form of the past participle of remplacer, the French verb meaning to replace or substitute. It functions in several grammatical roles, most commonly as a participle in compound tenses or as an adjective describing something that has been substituted. The feminine plural form is remplacées, while the singular forms are remplacé (masculine) and remplacée (feminine).

As a participle, remplacés appears in tenses built with the auxiliary verb avoir or être. When used with être, it agrees in gender and number with the subject, as in ils ont été remplacés (they were replaced). With avoir, it agrees only if the direct object precedes the participle, as in les pièces que nous avons remplacées (the parts we have replaced). When used as an adjective, remplacé modifies a noun directly: un élément remplacé, des pièces remplacées.

In usage, remplacés typically describes items or components that have been substituted or updated, such as equipment, parts, or procedures. The term can also appear in figurative contexts to indicate people who have been displaced or superseded in a role, though in most cases this sense is conveyed with the related noun remplacement or with a different construction; for persons specifically serving as substitutes, the common noun is remplaçant rather than remplacé.

Etymology traces remplacés to the prefix re- plus remplacer, with the standard French past participle ending -é. In translation, remplacés corresponds to “replaced” or “substituted” in English, depending on the syntactic role.