segmenterte

Segmenterte is a verb form used in Norwegian Bokmål (and in related Scandinavian varieties) deriving from the verb segmentere, meaning to divide something into segments or to classify into groups. The form segmenterte corresponds to the English past tense “segmented.” In Norwegian Bokmål, the corresponding past participle used in passive constructions is segmentert (as in dataene ble segmentert, the data were segmented), while segmenterte is used for the simple past tense.

Usage and contexts

Segmenterte appears in descriptions of processes that split a whole into parts, such as segmenting a market, a dataset, a text, or an image. It is common in fields like business analytics, marketing, linguistics, geography, and information technology. For example, a sentence might read: Vi segmenterte kundebasen etter alder og inntekt (We segmented the customer base by age and income). In a technical context, one might say: Bildet ble segmentert i fire regioner, using the participle segmentert for a passive construction.

Relation to related terms

Segmentering is the noun form referring to the act or process of segmentation. Segmentering and segmentation are often used interchangeably in English-language texts, but in Norwegian Bokmål the standard noun is segmentering, while segmenterte serves as the past tense form of the verb segmentere. The term is primarily used in Scandinavian languages and appears in translations or descriptions of analytical methods that divide a whole into discrete parts.