sammanfattades

Sammanfattades is a Swedish verb form meaning that something was summarized. It is the passive preterite (past) form of the verb sammanfatta, and is used to express a completed action carried out on a subject by someone or something else.

Etymology and meaning: sammanfatta combines samman- (together, collectively) with fatta (to grasp, to comprehend, or to condense). The sense of sammanfatta is to condense information into a shorter form, and sammanfattades denotes that this condensation or summarizing action was performed on the subject in the past.

Usage and syntax: sammanfattades is common in formal writing, journalism, and academic contexts where it is important to state that content has been summarized by an agent. The agent is usually introduced with av, for example: “Rapporten sammanfattades av redaktören.” The subject of the sentence is the item that was summarized.

Grammatical forms: present passive is sammanfattas (is summarized), past active is sammanfattade (summarized), and past passive is sammanfattades (was summarized). The perfect passive is har sammanfattats (has been summarized). The noun form is sammanfattning (summary), and related verb forms include sammanfatta (to summarize) and sammanfattande (summarizing, summarizing).

Related notes: sammanfattades is used when describing that a text, report, lecture, or event was condensed into a shorter form. It contrasts with active forms where the subject performs the summarizing itself.

See also: sammanfatta, sammanfattning, sammanfattande.