Gestellten

Gestellten is the inflected form of the German past participle gestellt, from the verb stellen (to place, to set, to pose, to submit). It functions mainly as a participial adjective describing something that has been placed, posed, or submitted. As a standalone lemma, gestellten does not exist; its meaning depends on the noun it modifies and the syntactic context.

Grammatically, gestellten appears in attributive position and is declined according to gender, number and case. After a definite article, it commonly ends with -en in many plural and some case forms: die gestellten Fragen (the posed questions), die gestellte Frage (the posed question), das gestellte Problem (the posed problem). In masculine accusative singular you often see den gestellten Antrag, and in feminine genitive singular der gestellten Aufgabe. In plural dative: mit den gestellten Aufgaben. In these forms the ending -en is a typical marker of the adjective’s inflection after a determiner.

In contexts without a definite determiner, the endings follow strong or mixed inflection rules, yielding forms such as gestellte Fragen (plural, no article) or ein gestellter Antrag / eine gestellte Frage / ein gestelltes Problem (singular with indefinite article).

Common meanings reflect the underlying senses of stellen: “posed,” “submitted,” or “placed.” For example, gestellte Fragen are questions that have been posed; ein gestellter Antrag is an application that has been submitted. The exact nuance depends on the context and the sense of stellen in use.

Etymologically, gestellten derives from stellen and represents the standard German adjective formation for past-participle meanings, integrated into everyday and formal language alike. It is predominantly a grammatical form used to convey that something has been set, posed, or submitted.