Gehackten

Gehackten is a declined form of the German past participle gehackt, derived from the verb hacken, meaning to chop or to hack. As a form it is used either as an adjective preceding a noun or as part of a passive construction, and it is not a standalone noun with its own definition. Its exact ending depends on gender, number, case and the presence of a definite or indefinite article.

In everyday language, gehackte or gehackten are commonly seen before food nouns to describe pieces that have been chopped. For example, gehackte Zwiebeln means chopped onions. The ending of the adjective changes with case and article: die gehackten Zwiebeln (nominative plural with a definite article) or mit den gehackten Zwiebeln (dative plural). With masculine singular nouns, you might encounter den gehackten Mann (accusative) or der gehackte Mann (nominative), illustrating how the ending shifts between -en and -e depending on case and article.

Beyond food, gehackt is used in passive constructions to describe actions performed on objects, such as Der Computer wurde gehackt (the computer was hacked). When used attributively before nouns, the form gehackten appears in contexts like der gehackte Code or die gehackten Daten, again following standard German adjective declension.

Notes on usage: gehackten is not a separate lexical item but a grammatical form. Its appropriate ending follows the standard rules of attributive adjectives in German. In practice, usage variations are largely guided by whether the noun is definite or indefinite and by number and case. See also gehackt, gehackte Daten, and related grammar references for adverbial or bare participle forms.