située

Située is the feminine singular past participle of the French verb situer. Used as an adjective, it means “located” or “situated” and agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies. For masculine nouns the form is situé; for plural feminine, situées; for plural masculine, situés.

Origin and grammar: Situer comes from Latin situs, meaning “placed.” The participle située (along with situé, situés, situées) is part of the family of adjectives derived from verbs and is used to describe the location of a place, object, or person. It can function as a predicate adjective with the auxiliary être: La ville est située au nord. It can also occur pre-nominally in some fixed expressions, though it is most commonly post-nominal.

Usage: Située is common in geography, travel writing, real estate, and place descriptions. It is typically placed after the noun (post-nominal), as in une région située dans les montagnes, or une ville située près de la mer. It may be followed by prepositional phrases indicating position, such as à proximité de, au bord de, ou dans les alentours.

See also: situé, situer, localisation, localisation géographique, toponyme. Examples of related forms illustrate how agreement with the noun governs form and placement within a sentence.