primäres

Primäres is a German adjective form derived from primär, meaning primary or principal. It denotes something that is first in order, importance, or development. In standard prose, the attributive form declines with gender and case: das primäre Ziel, ein primäres Problem, zwei primäre Indikatoren. The form primäres itself appears mainly in two contexts: as a headword in lists or headings, where the noun may be omitted (Primäres Ziel: Effizienzsteigerung), and in sentence-initial position or with no determiner, as in "Primäres Ziel dieser Studie ist die Reduktion der Emissionen." In a normal sentence with a definite article, the form of the adjective would be primäre.

In usage, primäres is widely used in scientific and technical language to distinguish primary from secondary. Typical collocations include Primärdaten (original data) and Primärquellen (original sources). The corresponding neuter noun phrases like "primäres Ziel", "primäres Interesse" appear in policy documents, project reports, and academic writing. The prefix primär is closely related to English primary and to Latin primarius; it forms many related terms such as primärdaten, primärquellen, und primäre Immunantwort. In medicine and biology, "primäre" is common in phrases like primäre Immunantwort (the initial immune response) or primäre Ursache (the principal cause). The opposite is sekundär, describing secondary or subsequent aspects.

Overall, primäres is a functional inflected form used in German to signal primacy in a neutral, technical register; the base form used in dictionaries is primär.