startades

Startades is a Swedish verb form, not a standalone noun. It serves as the past passive of the verb starta, meaning that something was started or was begun. The form is used when the subject is the recipient of the action rather than the doer. In practice, sentences like Företaget startades 1990 or Projektet startades av flera organisationer illustrate its function in indicating that an action took place in the past and was carried out by someone else.

Morphology and usage details: the base verb is starta. In present tense, forms like startar are used, while the past active form is startade (they started). The past passive, expressed by startades, is formed by combining the past participle startad with the passive past suffix. This construction is common in written Swedish, particularly in news reports and historical descriptions. The passive past can often be alternated with a passive with the auxiliary bleva or bli, as in Företaget blev startat eller Företaget startades av grundarna, though the latter is the more neutral, widely used form.

Etymology and scope: startades derives from the Swedish verb starta, itself a native formation that has become common in modern Swedish usage. It is a standard grammatical form rather than a separate lexical item, and it does not function as a proper noun.

See also: starta, startad, startade, the passive voice in Swedish, and constructions with blev/startat.