zugeführt

Zugeführt is the past participle of the German verb zuführen. The verb means to bring to, to supply, or to administer to a recipient. As a participle it can function as an adjective meaning that something has been supplied to someone or something, for example in medical, technical, or culinary contexts. In English, zugeführt is commonly translated as supplied, administered, or fed, depending on the context.

In everyday and technical use, zugeführt appears in phrases describing the act of delivering substances or inputs to a recipient or system. In medicine and nutrition, one often finds sentences like “Nährstoffe wurden dem Patienten zugeführt,” meaning nutrients were supplied to the patient. In process engineering or chemistry, it is common to say “Zusatzstoffe wurden dem Material zugeführt” or “Reagenzien dem Reaktionsgefäß zugeführt,” describing additives or reagents being fed into a process or vessel. In agriculture, one may refer to animals receiving feed with forms such as “Futter wurde den Tieren zugeführt.”

The noun form most commonly used for the concept of supplying input is Zufuhr, as in Energiezufuhr or Nährstoffzufuhr. Zuführung is a related noun that appears in some technical phrases, but Zufuhr is the standard term for the ongoing provision of substances or resources.

In summary, zugeführt denotes that something has been supplied or administered to a recipient or system, and it is primarily used in technical, medical, or scientific language.