Zusammengefalteten

Zusammengefalteten is the past participle form of the German verb zusammenfalten, which means "to fold together" or "to fold jointly." It functions as an adjective when modifying a noun, indicating that the noun has been folded in a joint or combined manner. In contemporary German usage, zusammengefalteten is employed in contexts ranging from everyday descriptions of folded objects to specialized technical jargon in fields such as engineering, origami, and textile production. For example, one might say, “Die zusammengefalteten Blätter lagen ordentlich in der Schublade,” meaning “The folded together sheets were neatly stacked in the drawer.”

Grammatically, zusammengefalteten appears in the masculine or neuter singular accusative or dative case, agreeing with the noun it modifies. Its feminine forms would be zusammengefalteten (accusative/dative) and zusammengefalteten (nominative). The word follows standard German participle agreement patterns, where the adjective ending matches the case, gender, and number of the associated noun. In a formal written text, a sentence might read, “Wir kamen zur Analyse der zusammengefalteten Grafik, die ein komplexes Muster zeigte,” translating to “We arrived to analyze the fold‑together graphic that displayed a complex pattern.”

Etymologically, zusammenfalten combines the prefix zusammen- (together) with falten (to fold). The fusion into a single word reflects German’s tendency toward compound verbs. Zeugma-like sentences often pair zusammengefalteten with other participles to describe multi‑step processes, such as zusammengefalteten und geschnürten Materialien. Though it is a perfectly standard lexical item, it appears more frequently in written specialized language than in casual speech, where native speakers might simply say zusammengefaltet or gefaltet.