sorteras

Sorteras is a Swedish verb form meaning “are sorted” or “are being sorted.” It is the present tense passive form of sortera, which means to sort, classify, or arrange items into groups. The passive is used when the agent performing the sorting is unknown, unspecified, or not stated. For example: Avfallet sorteras i olika fraktioner. The waste is sorted into different fractions.

The form appears in everyday language as well as technical contexts such as recycling, inventory management, and computing. In recycling facilities, materials like plast, glas and metall sorteras into separate streams. In data processing, records can sorteras by a key or field to prepare for further steps. Because sorteras is passive, the subject of the sentence often appears before the verb, while the agent may be omitted: “Föremålen sorteras” (The items are sorted).

Related terms include sortering (the act of sorting) and sorterad (sorted, the past participle). The infinitive is sortera, and related forms exist in other tenses and voices, such as sorterade (sorted) in the past and sorterar (sorts, in the active present). In practice, sorteras is most common in descriptions of processes, guidelines, and procedures where the emphasis is on the outcome of sorting rather than who performs it.