kommunistischen

Kommunistischen is the inflected form of the German adjective kommunistisch, meaning “communist.” It functions as an attributive or predicative modifier and appears in phrases such as kommunistische Partei, kommunistische Ideologie, or kommunistische Regime. It is not a stand-alone noun.

Grammar and usage: In German, adjectives inflect for gender, number, and case. kommunisch becomes kommunist- with various endings;kommunistischen is a common form in several contexts, for example in the dative singular masculine or neuter (mit dem kommunistischen System) or in the dative plural (mit den kommunistischen Parteien). The exact ending depends on the article and the word order.

Etymology: The adjective derives from the noun Kommunist, borrowed into German in the 19th century as socialist and communist movements emerged. It ultimately traces to a common Latin root (communis) and to related terms in other European languages such as French and English.

Usage and nuance: In contemporary German, kommunistisch is typically neutral or descriptive, used to characterize beliefs, parties, regimes, or literature associated with communism. The inflected form kommunistischen appears routinely in written German whenever the structure requires an attributive or predicative form in the relevant case and number.

See also: Kommunist, Kommunismus, Karl Marx, Sozialismus, Communism.