Gestiegenen

Gestiegenen is the declined form of the past participle gestiegen, derived from the verb steigen, meaning to rise or increase. In German grammar, past participles can function as adjectives when they are declined attributively. The form gestiegenen appears in plural settings after a definite determiner and is used to describe a plural noun.

As an attributive adjective in the weak declension, gestiegenen takes the ending -en when used with definite articles or other determiners that mark case, number, and gender. Typical forms include: die gestiegenen Preise (nominative plural), den gestiegenen Preisen (dative plural), der gestiegenen Preise (genitive plural). When the determiner is not definite, the strong or mixed declension may yield different endings, such as gestiegene Preise in the nominative plural without a definite article.

Usage notes indicate that gestiegenen primarily functions as an adjective describing things that have increased or risen, rather than as a standalone noun. In practice it frequently appears in economic, statistical, or climate-related contexts to characterize rising values, costs, temperatures, or other quantities. For example: Die gestiegenen Preise belasten Haushalte. In den gestiegenen Temperaturen spürt man den Klimawandel.

Etymologically, gestiegenen ties to the participle gestiegen from steigen, with the ending adapting to the grammatical case, number, and gender of the noun it modifies. This form contrasts with gestiegene, which appears in other declension contexts (such as strong declension without a definite determiner).