heutigen
Heutigen is the inflected form of the German adjective heutig, meaning current or present-day. The base term derives from heute, meaning today, and the suffix -ig, which forms adjectives describing the modern or contemporary state. In everyday use, heutig and its inflected forms describe things related to the present day, such as events, conditions, or periods.
In German grammar, heutig undergoes declension like other adjectives when accompanied by a determiner. The form
- Die heutigen Tage (nominative plural) – the present-day days
- Den heutigen Tag (accusative masculine singular) – the present-day day
- Des heutigen Tages (genitive masculine singular) – of the present-day day
- Dem heutigen Tag (dative masculine singular) – to/for the present-day day
- Den heutigen Tagen (dative plural) – to the present-day days
These examples show how the ending -en is used in plural and certain singular determiner contexts.
Usage and nuance: Heutig is widely used in journalism, formal writing, and everyday speech to denote things
See also: related terms include heute, heutige, and heutzutage, which cover related sense in time reference