udvidedes

Udvidedes is a Danish verb form used to express the passive voice in the past tense of the verb udvide, meaning to widen or expand. In meaning, it denotes that something was expanded in a preceding period, without specifying who carried out the action. In contemporary standard Danish, the common way to express this idea is with the auxiliary blev and the past participle: for example, huset blev udvidet. The form udvidedes is therefore typically seen as archaic, literary, or dialectal.

The usage of udvidedes is largely confined to historical texts, archival records, or certain regional varieties. It appears in contexts where the action is presented as a completed expansion that occurred in the past, similar to other older Danish passive constructions that employ the suffix -edes. Because it sounds formal or old-fashioned, modern Danish speakers most often replace it with semakin standard form gamit blev udvidet.

Examples can illustrate the nuance. For instance: "Byen udvidedes betydeligt i løbet af det 19. århundrede." and "Huset udvidedes med en ny tilbygning i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet." In everyday writing and speech, these meanings are more typically conveyed as "Byen blev udvidet betydeligt" and "Huset blev udvidet med en ny tilbygning."

Etymologically, udvidedes stems from udvide plus the historical passive suffix -edes, a combination now largely superseded by the more productive blev udvidet form in modern usage.