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O quarto rascunho está visto e revisto.

O quarto rascunho está visto e revisto.
The fourth draft is seen and revised.
From Lesson 148:Irregular past participles as adjectives (aberto, feito)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O quarto rascunho está visto e revisto.

Why is the word for 'seen' visto? Isn't ver a regular ER verb?
Ver (to see) is highly irregular, and its past participle is visto rather than the regular '-ido' ending you might expect. Because it is acting as an adjective here to describe O quarto rascunho, it must match the masculine singular form of the noun.
How does the word revisto work?
Revisto means 'reviewed' or 'revised'. It comes from the verb rever (to review/revise). When a verb is built by adding a prefix like 're-' to an irregular verb like ver, it usually keeps the exact same irregular pattern. So, ver becomes visto, and rever becomes revisto.
Why use está instead of é with these adjectives?
We use está (from the verb estar, meaning to be in a temporary condition or state) because being 'seen and revised' is the current status of the draft. It describes the result of a completed action, rather than an innate or permanent characteristic of the draft itself.
Wait, doesn't quarto mean 'bedroom'?
It can! In Portuguese, quarto is both the noun for 'room' or 'bedroom' and the ordinal number for 'fourth'. You can easily tell them apart by the context of the sentence. Here, because it comes right before the noun rascunho (draft), it is clearly acting as a number.

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