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skadats

Skadats is a Swedish term that appears in texts describing damage or injury. It is the past participle form of the verb skada, meaning to damage, and is used in passive constructions to indicate that damage has occurred to a subject. This form is commonly found in safety reports, insurance documents, medical records, and incident logs where the condition of objects or persons is described.

In practice, skadats is used with auxiliary verbs such as har (has) or hade (had) to form

Usage outside Swedish is limited; in English-language writing, skadats is usually translated as “damaged” or “injured.”

Etymology and related forms: Skadats derives from the verb skada (to damage). Related forms include skada (to

See also: Skada; skadad; skadan.

perfect
tenses,
for
example,
“Fordonet
har
skadats”
meaning
“The
vehicle
has
been
damaged.”
The
term
is
typical
of
Swedish
grammar
and
is
most
often
encountered
in
contexts
where
a
direct,
literal
translation
of
Swedish
material
is
required
or
when
preserving
authentic
phrasing
in
bilingual
documents.
When
encountered
in
non-Swedish
texts,
it
is
typically
treated
as
a
loanword
only
in
reference
to
the
original
Swedish
sentence,
rather
than
as
an
English
term
with
its
own
independent
meaning.
damage)
and
skadad
(damaged),
which
refers
to
a
person
or
object
that
is
damaged
in
a
non-passive
sense.