Rauchenden

Rauchenden is the inflected form of the German present participle rauchen, used as an adjective to describe someone or something that is actively smoking. As a participial adjective, rauchenden declines like an ordinary adjective and changes its ending according to gender, number, and case.

Declension and examples:

- Masculine singular, nominative: rauchender Mann

- Masculine singular, accusative: den rauchenden Mann

- Masculine singular, dative: dem rauchenden Mann

- Plural, nominative/accusative: die rauchenden Männer

- Feminine forms: die rauchende Frau (nominative), die rauchende Frau (accusative)

In the absence of a definite article, the strong declension applies, so the form rauchenden can also appear in accusative masculine singular after a definite or strong context, for example: "Ich sehe den rauchenden Mann." With an indefinite article, the mixed declension yields: "einen rauchenden Mann" (accusative masculine).

Usage:

The form rauchenden is primarily used in attributive position when describing a masculine singular noun in the accusative or dative, as well as in the plural nominative or accusative. It is not typically used predicatively; instead, the bare participle rauchend or other constructions are used to describe ongoing smoking in predicate position. The feminine counterpart is rauchende, and the neuter forms follow the same declension patterns.

Notes:

Rauchenden should be distinguished from rauchenden as a stand-alone noun or as a non-participial phrase. It is a grammatical inflection, not a separate semantic unit, and its exact ending depends on article use and grammatical case.