dekliniertes

Dekliniertes is a participial adjective formed from the verb deklinieren, meaning to inflect or decline. In German grammar, to decline a word means to change its form to express grammatical case, number, and gender. The term dekliniertes is used in linguistic descriptions and grammars to refer to a word or form that has already undergone such inflection.

Usage and meaning

The adjective dekliniertes describes items that show inflection. It is commonly used with nouns such as das deklinierte Substantiv or die deklinierte Form, indicating that the head word has adjusted endings according to its syntactic role. Because it is an attributive adjective, its ending changes in accordance with the surrounding article or determiners and with the noun’s gender, number, and case, following the standard patterns of German adjective inflection.

Formation and variation

As with other attributive adjectives in German, dekliniertes can take different endings depending on the grammatical context. For example, forms such as deklinierte Form, dekliniertes Substantiv, or deklinierter Artikel illustrate how the ending aligns with gender and case. In linguistic tagging or glossing, dekliniertes may appear as a concise descriptor to signal that a token has been declined.

Relation to related terms

Deklination or declension is the broader process of inflecting words. The term dekliniertes is closely related to inflected forms and is used chiefly in grammar discussions to label or describe declined items. See also declension, inflection, German grammar.

Note

The precise spelling and ending of dekliniertes depend on the noun it modifies and the grammatical context, in line with standard German adjective agreement rules.