Angekündigt

Angekündigt is the past participle form of the German verb ankündigen, which means to announce, to declare in advance, or to make public. It is used with different syntactic functions, most often in perfect tense constructions and in passive voice, and also as an attributive or predicative adjective.

In sentence use, angekündigt can appear in finite verb forms with the auxiliary haben or in passive constructions with werden. Examples include: Die Regierung hat neue Maßnahmen angekündigt. Die neuen Maßnahmen wurden angekündigt. This highlights that something has been publicly stated or announced. As an adjective, angekündigt agrees with the noun it modifies: eine angekündigte Veröffentlichung, ein angekündigter Termin, angekündigte Reformen, and so on. The endings follow normal German adjective declension patterns depending on article and case.

Etymologically, angkündigt derives from the verb ankündigen, formed from kündigen (to announce, declare) with the prefix an-. The word is commonly used in contexts where a statement or commitment has been publicly communicated in advance, such as politics, business, technology, and media.

Related terms include Ankündigung (the noun meaning “announcement”) and kündigen (to announce in the sense of declaring or terminating). Angekündigt emphasizes the (often public) act of declaring something future or planned, rather than the action itself being carried out.

In sum, ang ekündigt functions as both participle and adjective to indicate that something has been publicly announced, with flexible use across tenses and case-inflected forms as required in German grammar.