sändes

Sändes is a conjugated form of the Swedish verb sända, which means to send or to broadcast. It is the past tense form used in the passive voice (past passive) and can also appear in some active constructions, depending on the context. In modern Swedish the corresponding present passive is sänds, and the past active is sände, while the present active is sänder.

In everyday usage, sändes most commonly appears to describe something that was broadcast or sent in the past. For example, “Programmet sändes klockan åtta” means the program was broadcast at eight. The form can also occur in formal writing to indicate that a message or item was sent, as in “Meddelandet sändes till alla mottagare.” The active past tense, used when the subject performs the sending, is sände: “Hon sände ett brev.” The present tense passive is sänds: “Programmet sänds varje kväll.”

Morphology and related forms: sända is the infinitive; sänder is present active; sände is the simple past active; sänds is the present passive; sändes is the past passive. The distinction between past passive and past active is often clarified by sentence structure and context.

Etymology: sända derives from Old Norse senda, related to English send and German senden. The word has retained a broad meaning across sending and broadcasting contexts in Swedish.

See also: sändning (broadcast or transmission), direktsändning (live broadcast).