gestörten

Gestörten is a declined form of the German adjective gestört, meaning disturbed or disrupted. It is not a standalone noun; rather, it is one of the inflected endings the adjective can take when it modifies a noun. The base verb is stören (to disturb or interrupt), and gestört yields various endings depending on gender, number, and case.

In standard usage, gestört functions as an ordinary attributive adjective. For example, with a definite article in the plural you would say die gestörten Kinder (the disturbed children). Other common forms include eine gestörte Beziehung (a disturbed relationship) or gestörte Kommunikation (disturbed or disrupted communication). The ending gestörten also appears in cases such as den gestörten Geräuschen (to/for the disturbed noises, dative plural) or die gestörten Beziehungen (the disturbed relationships, plural). The exact form depends on the grammatical context.

As a noun, some speakers use Gestörter (capitalized) to refer to a person who is mentally disturbed. This usage is colloquial and pejorative, and it is not appropriate in formal, clinical, or respectful contexts. In those settings, one would more properly say eine Person mit einer psychischen Störung or eine Person mit einer psychischen Erkrankung.

Overall, gestörten is primarily a grammatical form of gestört, used to agree with nouns in plural or in certain cases. When referring to people, care should be taken with terminology to avoid stigmatizing language.