literarische

Literarische is the inflected form of the German adjective literarisch, meaning related to literature or characteristic of literature. It is used to describe things connected with literature, such as texts, language, genres, or movements.

In everyday German, literarische commonly appears in attributive position before a noun: literarische Texte (literary texts), literarische Sprache (literary language), literarische Gattung (literary genre). The exact ending changes with gender, number, and case: for example, die literarische Szene (feminine singular, nominative with definite article), das literarische Werk (neuter singular), die literarischen Werke (plural).

In predicative constructions you typically use literarisch rather than literarische: Das Werk ist literarisch. The word is frequently found in literary criticism, academic discourse, and journalism, where it helps distinguish works and styles as belonging to the field of literature rather than other domains.

Etymology and background: literarisch derives from Literatur (literature) plus the suffix -isch; the related noun Literatur comes from Latin litteratura. The attributive form literarische reflects standard German adjective declension and is common across genres, from academic writing to journalistic prose.

See also: terms related to literature, such as literarische Moderne, literarische Gattung, and literarische Theorie. The term is not a proper noun and is generally lowercase unless used in a title or as part of a proper name.