Geprägter

Geprägter is the masculine nominative singular inflected form of the German past participle geprägt, used as an adjective derived from the verb prägen. Prägen means to stamp, imprint, shape, or coin, and the past participle geprägt denotes something that has been formed or altered by a stamping or imprinting process, or, figuratively, strongly influenced or shaped by factors.

In use, geprägter accompanies a noun and declines like a usual possessive-adjective in German after articles or determiners. Examples include der geprägte Eindruck (the pronounced/imprinted impression), eine geprägte Münze (a minted coin) and ein geprägter Charakter (a character shaped by experiences). The form geprägter specifically appears in masculine nominative singular; other genders and cases yield geprägte, geprägtes, or other inflected endings, while plural is geprägte.

Geprägt can also describe non-physical effects or traits, such as geprägter Stil or geprägte Landschaft, where it conveys the idea that something has been shaped or defined by particular influences or conditions. In coinage contexts, geprägt literally refers to coins produced by stamping.

Etymology traces geprägt to prägen with the prefix ge-, forming the participle used adjectivally. In English translations, geprägter is often rendered as “imprinted,” “engraved,” “minted,” or, in a figurative sense, “characterized by” or “influenced by.”