eingeräumten

Eingeräumten is the inflected form of the German past participle eingeräumt, derived from the verb einräumen. In usage it functions mainly as a participle used as an adjective or in perfect tenses, and its meaning depends on the context. The basic sense of einräumen ranges from admitting or acknowledging something to granting or assigning something to someone.

Meanings and usage

- Admitting or acknowledging: used with have as a perfect tense, for example Er hat den Fehler eingeräumt, meaning “He admitted the mistake.” In this sense, eingeräumt describes the action of admitting.

- Granting or assigning rights, space, or privileges: used in legal, administrative, or contractual contexts. For instance, Dem Unternehmen wurden bestimmte Rechte eingeräumt means “Certain rights were granted to the company.” Here the past participle functions as part of a passive construction or as a modifier for a noun.

Adjective form and inflection

As an attributive adjective, eingeräumt agrees with the noun it modifies. In the common definite-article context the form is eingeräumten for plural or certain singular cases, as in die eingeräumten Rechte (the granted rights) or dem eingeräumten Raum (to the granted room). In other cases the endings vary by gender, number, and case according to standard German adjective declension rules.

Relation to related terms

The term differs from möbliert or eingerichtet, which describe furnishings or interior design. Eingeräumt is not typically used to mean “furnished”; for such contexts, words like möbliert, eingerichtet, or ausgestattet are standard. Eingeräumt is more common in discussions of admissions, permissions, or allocations within contracts, laws, and formal statements.

See also

Einräumen, admitted, rights granted, contract terms.

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