översattes

Översattes is a Swedish verb form meaning "was translated." It is the past passive form of the verb översätta, which denotes the act of translating a text from one language to another. In Swedish, the passive voice is often expressed with the -s suffix, so översättas (present) and översattes (past) are commonly used in written prose to describe translation as a completed action.

Grammatical usage and examples: In past tense, the subject of the sentence is the text that was translated. For example, “Boken översattes från engelska till svenska.” The same form is used for plural subjects: “Böckerna översattes.” The agent performing the translation can be introduced with av, as in “Boken översattes av en framstående översättare.” In contemporary or alternative phrasing, Swedish can also express the same idea with blev översatt, a construction that uses the auxiliary blev plus the past participle översatt, as in “Boken blev översatt.”

Relation to related terms: The noun form översättning refers to the translation itself, while översättare denotes a translator. The verb översätta covers the act of translating, and its forms span tense and voice, including the present översätts and the past översattes.

Use in discourse: Översattes is common in scholarly writing, historical summaries, literary criticism, and encyclopedic descriptions when noting that a work has been rendered into another language. Its neutral, formal tone makes it suitable for documenting translation history and bibliographic information.