Vereinten

Vereinten is the inflected form of the German adjective vereint, meaning united. It occurs most prominently in the definite plural noun phrase die Vereinten Nationen, which is the German name for the United Nations.

In German, adjectives change their endings based on case, number and the presence of a determiner. After the definite article die and with a plural feminine noun such as Nationen, the attributive form takes the weak ending -en, producing Vereinten in this context. If the noun were present without a determiner or in a different grammatical setting, the adjective form would typically be Vereinte (the strong ending) as in Vereinte Nationen when used without a definite article, or in other plural phrases.

Usage and connotations: Vereinten is primarily encountered as part of the official name for the international organization. The standard, widely recognized form is die Vereinten Nationen, referring to the United Nations. The form Vereinigte Nationen with a different ending also appears in German in some contexts, but it is less common in the institutional name and can reflect a different declensional pattern or orthographic choice.

See also: United Nations, German grammar and declension patterns for adjectives in the plural with definite articles.