Nationalen

Nationalen is the inflected form of the German adjective national. In German, adjectives change endings to reflect gender, number, and case. The form nationalen occurs mainly in attributive position after definite or possessive determiners and in several plural contexts. It is not used as a stand-alone noun.

In plural, after a definite article, the form is die nationalen (nominative and accusative). In the dative plural, it appears as den nationalen. In masculine singular accusative with a definite article, den nationalen accompanies a masculine noun, as in den nationalen Plan. In feminine and neuter singular, different endings apply (nationale, nationales). Possessives such as meine nationalen Pläne yield the same -en ending in the plural.

Examples:

- Die nationalen Interessen sind wichtig.

- Wir arbeiten an den nationalen Plänen.

- Er schlug den nationalen Plan vor.

- Sie diskutiert die nationalen Städte.

Notes:

- nationalen is not a noun; it is an adjective form and is written in lowercase in standard German. It only becomes capitalized if used as part of a fully nominalized phrase in special stylistic contexts, which is uncommon.