No. 10,032 in Swedish

häktats

"Häktats" means "has been arrested" or "has been detained" in English.

In a sentence

Personen har häktats för misstänkt stöld.
The person has been arrested for suspected theft.
In this sentence, 'häktats' is used as a past participle to indicate that the person has been taken into custody.
Efter att han hade häktats överklagade advokaten domen.
After he had been arrested, the lawyer appealed the verdict.
Here, 'häktats' is used to explain a sequential event where the arrest has occurred before the lawyer took action.
Om hon häktats, kommer det att finnas en utfrågning.
If she is arrested, there will be a hearing.
In this conditional sentence, 'häktats' denotes a future probabilistic event of being taken into custody.

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