tirés

Tirés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb tirer (to pull, to draw). It is used as an adjective or as part of verb phrases to indicate that something has been drawn, pulled, or extracted from a larger source. When used attributively, it agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number. Examples include les documents tirés du dossier (the documents drawn from the file) and les noms tirés au sort (the names drawn by lot). If the modified noun is feminine or plural, the participle changes accordingly, as in les phrases tirées d’un texte (the phrases drawn from a text).

Grammatical note: with the auxiliary avoir, the past participle tiré or tirés agrees in gender and number with a preceding direct object. For instance, j’ai tiré les pièces du dossier becomes les pièces tirées du dossier when the object precedes or is reintroduced by a relative clause. With être, agreement follows the same rule. In many fixed expressions, tirés appears in forms such as tirés au sort or tirés de, illustrating selection or extraction from a set.

Usage and scope: tirés appears mainly in formal or written French as a descriptive tool to indicate items that have been selected, drawn, or extracted from a larger group. It is not a standalone technical term with a widely separate definition; its meaning hinges on the context of tirer. Related terms include tirage (the act of drawing or printing) and expressions like tirer au sort or tirer de.