vattnades

Vattnades is the past passive form of the Swedish verb vattna, which means to water plants or soil. It describes a watering action performed on an object without specifying who carried it out. The active past tense is vattnade (they watered), while the past passive is vattnades, indicating that the object received the action.

Morphology and usage. In Swedish, the passive voice can be formed with the suffix -s in the present tense (vattnas, is watered) and with -des in the past for many verbs in the simple past (vattnades, was watered). The agent of the watering is often left unstated or can be introduced with av (by), for example: Gräsmattan vattnades av ett automatiskt bevattningssystem (The lawn was watered by an automatic irrigation system). The past passive is commonly used in descriptions, instructions, and reports where the focus is on the action rather than the actor.

Examples.

- Gräsmattan vattnades varje kväll av bevattningssystemet.

- Trädgården vattnades av regn efter stormen.

- Om så önskas, kan vattnades bytas ut mot en mer formell konstruktion med blev eller har blivit i vissa sammanhang, men vattnades är standardformen för simpel past passive.

Etymology and relation. Vattna derives from the noun vatten (water). The form vattnades is a regular past passive construction in Swedish and is closely related to similar past passive forms in related Nordic languages. See also vattna, vatten, bevattning.