empfangbaren

Empfangbaren is not a noun; it is the attributive inflected form of the German adjective empfangbar, meaning able to be received or detectable. The form occurs when the adjective directly accompanies a noun and is declined according to gender, number, and case. The ending -en is typical for plural nouns with a definite article in the attributive position, as in die empfangbaren Signale or mit den empfangbaren Signalen. The base adjective empfangbar itself combines empfangen “to receive” with bar “able to,” and is used in technical, scientific, and everyday language to describe objects or phenomena that can be captured or detected by a receiver, sensor, or observer.

In practical usage, the term often appears in telecommunications, broadcasting, measurement, and data acquisition, referring to signals, frequencies, or data streams that a device can process. The phrasing emphasizes capability rather than current reception; context may specify whether a set of signals is presently being received or simply could be received under suitable conditions. The expression is common in German technical writing and remains intelligible in ordinary prose.

Related terms include Empfangbarkeit, a noun for the property of being receivable, and empfangbar as the general adjective. The concept is standard in discussions of bandwidth, radio and television reception, and sensor design. In linguistics, empfangbar and its inflected forms illustrate the German suffix -bar and the system of attributive adjective endings after definite determiners.

See also: Empfang, Empfangsgerät, Empfangsbereich, Empfangbarkeit.