empfangsbereiten

Empfangsbereit is a German adjective meaning ready to receive. It is formed from the noun Empfang (reception, signal reception) and bereit (ready). The word is typically used to describe a person, device, or system that is prepared to accept information, signals, calls, or visitors. The uninflected form empfangsbereit is used in attributive position, for example, in the phrase ein empfangsbereiter Empfänger (a recipient ready to receive). The inflected form empfangsbereiten appears in certain grammatical cases and numbers, for instance den empfangsbereiten Empfänger (the recipient ready to receive) or die empfangsbereiten Geräte (the ready-to-receive devices).

In technical and everyday contexts, the term is used to indicate readiness to receive something. In telecommunications and electronics, devices or interfaces may be described as empfangsbereit when they are configured, powered, and prepared to accept a transmission or data. In conversational German, it can also describe a person who is ready to receive information or visitors, as in someone being empfangsbereit for a meeting or a call.

Related terms include Empfangsbereitschaft (receptivity, readiness to receive), which names the state or capacity of being ready to receive, and Empfangsgerät (receiver or receiving device). The concept intersects with ideas like signalqualität, Verbindungsaufbau and Benutzerbereitschaft in technical documentation.

Overall, empfangsbereit and its declined form empfangsbereiten are standard ways to express readiness to receive in German, with empfangsbereit serving as the core adjective and empfangsbereiten appearing mainly as a grammatically inflected form.