bedingter

Bedingter is an adjective in German meaning conditional or contingent, describing something that depends on a condition. It is used to characterize factors, hypotheses, or phenomena that are not intrinsic but arise from certain circumstances, as in phrases such as a bedingter Faktor or eine bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeit.

In grammar, bedingt often appears in the attributive position and takes different endings according to gender, number, and article. For masculine nominative singular, it can appear as bedingter after an indefinite article or no article, for example ein bedingter Faktor or bedingter Faktor. With a definite article, the form is bedingte (der bedingte Faktor). For feminine nouns, the common form with a definite article is bedingte (die bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeit), and with indefinite articles the form remains bedingte (eine bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeit). Plural forms use bedingte, as in bedingte Faktoren or bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeiten.

Common usage spans mathematics, statistics, science, philosophy, and everyday language when distinguishing what depends on external conditions from what is intrinsic. In mathematics and probability, terms such as bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeit (conditional probability) are standard. In everyday speech, bedingt is also found in phrases like bedingt durch äußere Umstände (caused or limited by external circumstances), where bedingt functions as a participial adjective.

Etymologically, bedingt derives from Bedingung (condition) and the verb bedingen, with the suffixes forming the attributive adjective that marks dependence on conditions. See also Bedingung, Konditional, and bedingen for related forms.