Gesalzenen

Gesalzenen is not a separate word with its own meaning, but the inflected attributive form of the past participle gesalzen (from salzen, to salt) used to describe plural nouns that have been salted. It occurs when the noun is plural and preceded by a definite article or another determiner that marks plurality, for example: die gesalzenen Kartoffeln, meine gesalzenen Mandeln.

In German, adjectives that follow definite determiners take the ending -en in the plural. Therefore gesalzen becomes gesalzenen in the attributive position before a plural noun. In predicative position after sein or werden, the form is typically gesalzen (Die Kartoffeln sind gesalzen). Without a definite article, the strong declension yields gesalzene in plural (gesalzene Kartoffeln).

Usage examples include cooking contexts and labeling, where gesalzenen describes the final state of salted items: die gesalzenen Nüsse, die gesalzenen Bohnen, oder meine gesalzenen Kartoffeln. The term conveys only grammatical information about the form and not a separate culinary category.

Summary: gesalzenen is the plural attributive form of the adjective derived from gesalzen, used with definite determiners to denote that the plural noun has been salted. It appears in contexts like recipes, menus, and ingredient lists as part of standard German adjective declension.