eingegangenes

Eingegangenes is a grammatically inflected form of the past participle eingegangen, used in German to describe something that has been received, entered, or accepted. It functions primarily as an attributive adjective for neuter singular nouns in the nominative or accusative case when no definite article is present. For example: ein eingegangenes Schreiben or ein eingegangenes Angebot. Without an article, the neuter singular form appears as eingegangenes.

In practice, eingegangenes is common in administrative, business, and postal contexts. It refers to items that have arrived or been submitted, such as documents, bids, or inquiries. Typical phrases include eingegangenes Schreiben (a letter that has been received) or eingegangenes Angebot (a bid that has been received). The form changes with case and number: with definite articles or adjectives in other positions, other endings are used (das eingegangene Schreiben; eingegangene Angebote).

The term can also be substantivized as Eingegangenes, a noun meaning “the things that have come in,” used to collectively refer to received items. In this usage, it is capitalized and functions as a substantive, e.g., Das Eingegangene wurde sorted and archived.

Grammatical note: the ending -es signals neuter singular in the strong/indefinite context (e.g., ein eingegangenes Schreiben). With a definite article, the ending would typically be -e (das eingegangene Schreiben). Plural forms would use eingegangene for the plural noun phrases (eingegangene Angebote, eingegangene Schreiben).

Overall, eingegangenes is a precise, context-dependent descriptor for items that have been received or submitted, common in formal writing and record-keeping.