vidsträckta

Vidsträckta is a Swedish adjective form used to describe something that covers or spans a large area or is expansive in scope. In everyday use it modifies nouns referring to geography, spaces, or periods of time, indicating breadth rather than depth. The base form is vidsträckt for singular nouns and vidsträckta for plural nouns. For example, ett vidsträckt landskap describes a landscape that is wide and expansive, while många vidsträckta fält describes many expansive fields. The word derives from vid meaning “wide” and sträcka meaning “to stretch,” with the usual Swedish adjective inflection that marks number and definiteness.

In geography and travel writing, vidsträckta is common when portraying large, open areas such as vidsträckta fält, vidsträckta kustlandskap, or vidsträckta områden. It can also describe non-physical expanses in a figurative sense, such as vidsträckta tidsramar or vidsträckta konsekvenser, though the latter is more rhetorical and less frequent in neutral prose.

Grammatically, vidsträckt is the stem form; adjectives ending in -t often accompany singular neuter nouns, while the plural form ends with -a in indefinite usage. See also: vidsträckt, utbredd, omfattande.