spelats

Spelats is a Swedish grammatical form, the past passive participle of the verb spela (to play). It is used to mark that an action involving play, performance, or execution has been carried out on a subject, without specifying the agent. Spelats appears with auxiliary verbs such as har or hade to form passive perfect tenses, for example har spelats meaning “has been played” and hade spelats meaning “had been played.”

Formation and usage: The stem of spela yields the passive past participle spelats, which is leveraged in contexts where the focus is on the event rather than who performed it. The agent may be introduced by av, as in låten har spelats av många artister. The passive form is common in discussions of music, theater, games, and broadcasting.

Examples: Låten har spelats av flera artister världen över. Föreställningen har spelats i flera städer. Historien har spelats in i flera versioner i arkiven. In contemporary Swedish, spelats contrasts with the active participle spelat, which is used with active constructions such as hon har spelat piano.

Notes: Spelats is a standard part of Swedish passive voice; it does not carry a separate lexical meaning beyond its role in the passive participle system, and its use is general across formal and informal registers.