störendem

Störendem is a German grammatical form: it is the dative singular masculine or neuter inflection of the present-participle adjective störend, which means disturbing or causing disturbance. The form is used when the noun it modifies is in the dative case and lacks a preceding determiner.

In practice, störendem appears in phrases describing a situation or object that disturbs someone or something, typically after a preposition that requires the dative case. Examples include: mit störendem Lärm (with disturbing noise) and in einem Raum mit störendem Licht (in a room with disturbing light). The form is one of several inflected endings for störend, which also has forms such as störender (nominative masculine), störende (nominative feminine or plural, and other cases vary with gender and definiteness).

Usage notes: störendem is most common in descriptive or formal writing, especially when emphasizing the disturbance caused by a feature, condition, or phenomenon rather than by an agent. Because it is an adjective form rather than a standalone noun, its exact ending changes with case, gender, and definiteness of the noun it describes. The base meaning remains “disturbing”; the form simply marks grammatical role in a sentence.

See also: stören (to disturb), störend (present participle/adjective in base form).