No. 3,876 in French

alerté

Warned or alerted.

In a sentence

J'ai alerté ma collègue du danger qui approchait.
I alerted my colleague of the approaching danger.
In this sentence, 'alerté' is used as the past participle of the verb 'alerter' in its conjugated form, indicating the act of informing or warning someone about a potential risk.
Il semble qu'il ait été alerté à temps pour éviter l'accident.
It seems he was alerted in time to avoid the accident.
Here, 'alerté' functions in the passive voice, indicating that the subject of the sentence has received the alert.
Les habitants ont été alertés par les sirènes d'urgence.
The residents were alerted by the emergency sirens.
In this case, 'alertés' is plural to agree with the plural subject 'les habitants' and describes their state as having received the alert due to the sirens.

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