sammantagen

Sammantagen is a Swedish term used as a compound adjective or past participle meaning taken together or in total. It is employed to describe data, results, or findings that have been combined across multiple elements to yield a single overall figure or conclusion. The word emphasizes aggregation and holistic assessment rather than itemized detail.

Etymology and form: The term is built from sam- meaning together and tagen, the past participle of ta (to take). In practice, sammantagen conveys that something has been gathered or considered as a unit. In contemporary Swedish, the more common form is sammantaget, which functions as an adverb meaning “overall” or “in total.” Sammantagen appears more frequently in formal, technical, or legal texts and can appear as a participial modifier when describing composed data or results.

Usage: Sammantagen is used in statistics, economics, policy analysis, and other fields where multiple components are combined to form a single measure. It helps signal that the figure represents an aggregate rather than a per-item or per-category value. The term sits alongside related expressions such as sammanlagt (in total) and sammantaget (overall).

Translations and equivalents: In English, sammantagen is typically rendered as “taken together” or “in aggregate.” The more common Swedish counterpart sammantaget translates to “overall” or “in total” when used as an adverb.

See also: sammantaget, sammanlagt, sammanställning, aggregation.

Notes: The usage of sammantagen is more specialized; if unsure, many writers prefer sammantaget for general purposes.