Entnehmenden

Entnehmenden is a form of the German verb entnehmen. It corresponds to the present participle (Partizip I) entnehmend, meaning roughly “taking out,” “extracting,” or “deducing.” As an attributive or predicative modifier, entnehmenden functions like an adjective and must be declined to match case, gender, and number.

In practice, entnehmenden appears most often in plural with a definite article or other determiner, for example: die entnehmenden Proben (the samples that have been taken out). The form also occurs in other cases with plural nouns, such as den entnehmenden Proben (dative or accusative plural, depending on sentence structure). The base participle entnehmend can also appear in other declined shapes (entnehmende Proben, entnehmens Proben, etc.), depending on the determiner and the case.

Usage notes: entnehmen means to take out from a source, to withdraw, or to deduce. The present participle entnehmend, and its declined form entnehmenden, are used mainly in descriptive or technical contexts to characterize agents, processes, or results that involve extraction or removal. For example, in scientific or industrial writing one might speak of entnehmenden Proben or entnehmenden Maßnahmen to denote actions or items that perform extraction. In everyday language, the standard past participle entnommen is more common when describing something that has already been taken out, e.g., entnommenes Material.

Overall, entnehmenden is a grammatically situational form of entnehmen used primarily as an attributive adjective in plural phrases, signaling extraction or extraction-related action.