heißem

Heißem is a German adjective, the dative singular masculine/neuter form of the adjective heiß, meaning "hot." In German grammar, case endings are added to adjectives to indicate their grammatical function within a sentence, such as their relationship to nouns, pronouns, or verbs. The dative case is typically used to indicate the indirect object of a verb, the object of certain prepositions, or to denote possession or the recipient of something. Therefore, "heißem" would appear in sentences where "hot" describes a noun that is in the dative case and is either masculine or neuter in gender. For example, in the sentence "Ich gebe dem heißen Wasser die Kanne" (I give the jug to the hot water), "heißen" modifies "Wasser" (water), which is a neuter noun in the dative case. Similarly, in "Er hilft dem heißen Mann" (He helps the hot man), "heißen" modifies "Mann" (man), a masculine noun in the dative case. The specific ending "-em" is characteristic of the dative singular declension for strong and mixed declensions of adjectives in German.