materiellen

Materiellen is the declined form of the German adjective materiell, meaning material or physical. It is used to describe tangible goods, physical assets, or non-abstract aspects, and serves to distinguish material things from immaterial or intangible ones. The term appears in economics, accounting, law, and everyday German.

Morphology and usage: materiell is inflected according to case, gender, and number. In plural with a definite article, the form materiellen appears in several cases: die materiellen Güter (nominative/accusative plural), den materiellen Gütern (dative plural), der materiellen Güter (genitive plural). In singular phrases, other endings are used, such as materieller Schaden (nominative singular) or den materiellen Schaden (accusative singular).

Contexts and meaning: The distinction materiell versus immateriell is common in finance, asset management and law. Material assets or goods are contrasted with immaterial assets like patents or goodwill. Typical collocations include materielle Güter, materielle Vermögenswerte and materieller Schaden, which denote physical property, tangible value and physical damage, respectively. The adjective also appears in phrases describing infrastructure, equipment or inventories as materiell and in contrast to intangible values.

Notes on usage: materiell is a standard technical term in formal German. While it primarily functions as an adjective, it frequently occurs in fixed expressions with nouns such as Güter, Vermögenswerte, or Schaden. Regional or stylistic variation can influence preferred endings, but the plural form materiellen is a canonical inflection in standard German when used with definite determiners.