deutlichen

Deutlichen is the inflected form of the German adjective deutlich, which means clear, explicit, or unambiguous. In standard German, adjectives inflect to reflect case, gender, and number, so deutlich appears in many different forms, including deutlichen in several common contexts.

Grammatical usage and examples illustrate how deutlichen functions as a declined form. For example, in accusative masculine singular you find den deutlichen Unterschied; in dative masculine singular you find dem deutlichen Unterschied; in dative feminine singular you find der deutlichen Frau. In the plural, the form deutlichen appears in phrases such as den deutlichen Hinweisen (dative plural) and die deutlichen Hinweise (accusative plural). A typical sentence uses the base meaning plainly, e.g., Es gibt deutliche Belege or Es gibt deutliche Unterschiede, where the adjective clearly modifies the noun.

Etymology and related forms: deutlich is an older Germanic adjective meaning clear or evident, with a long history in written German from Middle High German onward. The form deutlichen arises through standard declension rules, adapting to the noun it modifies and to whether an article or other determiner is present. Because deutlichen is tied to specific grammatical cases, its exact ending depends on the syntactic context.

Use and connotations: deutlich and its inflected forms, including deutlichen, are common in formal, scientific, journalistic, and educational writing to indicate that something is clearly evident, well supported, or explicitly stated. They are less common in casual speech outside of standard descriptive phrases.