Gestrichenem

Gestrichenem is a form of the past participle gestrichen used as an attributive adjective in German. It appears in the dative singular, typically in masculine or neuter gender, and is common when the noun it describes follows a preposition such as mit. The form reflects the strong or mixed adjective endings that occur without a definite article.

The base verb streichen has several meanings in German, including to paint or coat a surface, to brush on a layer, and in editing contexts to cancel or strike through. When gestrichen is declined as an adjective in the dative singular, the ending -em yields gestrichenem. Examples include mit gestrichenem Lack (with a coat of paint/lack) or mit gestrichenem Putz (with painted plaster). In other syntactic environments, the ending changes according to gender, number, and case, producing forms such as gestrichener Tisch (nominative masculine) or gestrichene Wände (nominative plural).

In addition to its literal sense of applying paint or coating, gestrichen can also mean canceled or crossed out in administrative or editorial usage. In such cases, gestrichenem Names or gestrichenen Einträgen may occur in dative or other cases, depending on the sentence structure.

Usage notes: gestrichenem occurs primarily with noun phrases in the dative singular without a definite article, or after prepositions that govern the dative. It is distinct from forms like gestrichenes (neuter nominative/accusative) or gestrichene (feminine or plural forms), which serve other grammatical roles. Overall, gestrichenem denotes that something has received a paint-like coating or has been canceled, depending on context.