adjective

verletzt

injured · injure

So, dass jemand oder ein Körperteil nach einem Unfall oder Schlag weh tut oder Schaden hat.

The word verletzt is the past participle of the verb verletzen and functions as an adjective in common usage. It has two primary meanings:

Physical harm: Someone or something is injured, wounded, or damaged. This can refer to a living being with a bodily injury or an object that is broken or impaired.
Emotional harm: Someone feels deeply hurt, offended, or insulted, usually due to someone else's words or actions. It describes a state of emotional pain or being wounded in one's feelings.
Violation: In a formal or legal sense, it means that a rule, law, right, or principle has been infringed upon or broken.

Grammar: It is the past participle of the weak verb verletzen . As an adjective, it is declinable (e.g., der verletzte Arm, eine verletzte Person).
Word origin: It is derived from the prefix ver- (indicating a negative outcome or a process leading to damage) and the root letzt (related to letzen, an Old High German term meaning "to damage" or "to hinder"). It is linguistically related to the word letzen .