sänkts

Sänkts is a Swedish past participle used in passive voice derived from the verb sänka, meaning to lower, sink, or reduce. In practice it conveys that something has been subjected to lowering or sinking, or that a quantity has been decreased, and it can cover both physical and figurative senses. The form sänkts appears in contexts where the action has been completed and is viewed from the perspective of the affected object.

grammatically, sänkts is typically used with the auxiliary har to form perfect tenses, for example: priset har sänkts (the price has been lowered). In bare past tense passive constructions, the simple passive is usually expressed with the form blev sänkt rather than sänkts, as in skeppet blev sänkt (the ship was sunk). The present passive is commonly sänks, while sänkts marks a completed action in the perfect.

Common senses and usage

- Physical sinking or lowering: Fartyget sänktes under konflikten. The ship was sunk.

- Economic or quantitative reductions: Priset har sänkts. The price has been lowered.

- Adjectival use: sänkta as a plural or feminine form meaning lowered, to modify nouns directly, e.g., sänkta priser (lowered prices), sänkt pris (lowered price) in singular.

Notes and nuances

- Sänkts emphasizes completion of the lowering action, whereas sänks expresses present passive activity.

- Sänkts is distinct from sänkt, which is the past participle used as an attributive adjective in singular or plural forms (sänkt pris, sänkta priser).

- Related terms include sänka (to lower/sink), sänkt (lowered, past participle), and sänkning (lowering).

See also: sänka, sänkt, sänkning, sänkta priser.