empfangenden
Empfangenden is the inflected form of the German present participle empfangend, used as an attributive adjective meaning “receiving” or “those who receive.” It describes a noun and agrees with its gender, number, and case, similar to other participial adjectives in German grammar.
In practice, empfangenden occurs in various cases as the adjective form of empfangen. It is not a
- Der empfangende Beamte prüft die Unterlagen.
- Die empfangenen Unterlagen wurden geprüft.
- Ich gab dem empfangenden Beamten die Unterlagen.
Notes on meaning and nuance: empfangenden conveys that the noun it modifies is in the act of