jetzigen

Jetzigen is the inflected form of the German adjective jetzig, meaning "present" or "current." It functions to describe nouns that refer to the present time or state and is not used as a noun by itself in standard German.

The term derives from the German word for "now" combined with the productive suffix -ig, forming an adjective that expresses immediacy or contemporaneity. In contemporary usage, jetzig appears in various formal and literary contexts as a normal attributive adjective when modifying a noun.

In plural noun phrases with a definite determiner, the attributive form takes the weak ending -en: for example, die jetzigen Ereignisse (the present events) and in den jetzigen Zeiten (in the present times). In singular forms, other inflection patterns apply (der jetzige Mann, das jetzige Jahr). The word is most common in written German, where it helps emphasize contemporary or current conditions or discussions.

See also: German adjectives; adjective declension in German.