gedruckten

Gedruckten is the inflected form of the past participle gedruckt, from the verb drucken (to print). In German, gedruckt functions as an adjective, and when declined it yields forms such as gedruckten, gedruckte, and gedrucktes, depending on gender, number, and case. The form gedruckten is most commonly seen as the attributive adjective with plural nouns (die gedruckten Seiten) and as the dative singular form after a definite determiner (dem gedruckten Text, dem gedruckten Buch) as well as in the feminine dative singular after a determiner (der gedruckten Zeitung). In general, adjectives following der/die/das take the weak ending -en in plural and certain singular cases.

Gedruckten describes material that has been printed, and it is frequently used in publishing, libraries, and archival contexts to distinguish printed matter from digital formats or manuscripts.

Nominalized usage: The participle can be nominalized as das Gedruckte, meaning “the printed matter” or “the printed edition.” In this sense Gedruckte is capitalized as a noun; the plural die Gedruckten is rare but possible in certain stylistic uses.

Examples: Die gedruckten Seiten des Berichts sind sauber gebunden. Wir haben die gedruckten Versionen der Manuskripte geprüft. Das Gedruckte aus dem Jahr 1950 ist in der Bibliothek zugänglich.

Notes: Gedruckten is not a separate word, but an inflected form of gedruckt. A related noun form is das Gedruckte, used to refer to printed matter as a concept.