spanisches

Spanisches is the inflected form of the German adjective spanisch, used to mean "Spanish" in the sense of origin, association, or culture. It describes nouns related to Spain or to the Spanish language, and it appears in a wide range of contexts such as cuisine, art, politics, geography, and everyday life. As a typical German adjective, spanisches changes its ending depending on the gender, number, and case of the noun it modifies, and on whether an article is present.

In practice, spanisches can occur with neuter singular nouns without an article (spanisches Brot), with a definite article (das spanische Königreich), or with a negation or unspecific reference (kein spanisches Auto). It can also appear with other gender forms: spanischer Wein (masculine singular), spanische Küche (feminine singular), and spanische Bücher (plural). The form you use follows standard German adjective declension rules.

Etymology traces spanisch back to the same root as the Spanish language and Spain itself, ultimately deriving from Latin Hispanus via the historical name Hispania. The German term for the language, Spanisch, is a related but distinct noun usage when capitalized to denote the language as a proper noun, as in Ich lerne Spanisch.

Related terms include Spanier (a Spaniard), Spanien (Spain), and hispanisch/Hispanic as broader, cross-cultural terms in other languages. The word spanisches is almost always lowercase when used as an ordinary adjective in German text.