ausschließlichen

Ausschließlichen is not a separate lexical entry in German; it is a declined form of the adjective and adverb ausschließend/ausschließend meaning exclusive or solely. In normal usage, the base form ausschlie?lich is common in both adverbial and attributive positions, and Ausschließlichen appears in inflected phrases before nouns.

Meaning and usage

Ausschließlich denotes exclusivity, indicating that something applies only to a particular subject, group, or context. As an adverb, it modifies verbs, adjectives, or entire clauses, for example: Die Leistung wurde ausschließlich von dem Auftragnehmer erbracht. As an attributive adjective, it describes a noun and agrees in gender, number, and case, producing forms such as ausschließliche Rechte or in den ausschließlichen Fällen. The specific form Ausschließlichen occurs primarily in plural contexts or in certain singular cases after definite determiners, as in die ausschließlichen Rechte or in den ausschließlichen Fällen.

Grammar and morphology

The form is the inflected variant of ausschließen’s derived meaning. In phrases with definite articles, the adjective endings follow standard German declension rules. Examples include die ausschließlichen Rechte (nominative plural), den ausschließlichen Rechten (dative plural), oder dem ausschließlichen Recht (dative neuter singular). The word is commonly found in legal, contractual, administrative, and policy language to mark exclusivity or restricted applicability.

Related terms

Ausschließlich is the adverbial form meaning exclusively. Related nouns include Ausschluss (exclusion) and Ausschließlichkeit (exclusivity or exclusiveness). The verb from which the concept derives is ausschließen (to exclude).

See also

Ausschließen, Ausschluss, Ausschließlichkeit, ausschließlich.