trockenen

Trockenen is the inflected form of the German adjective trocken, meaning dry. It is not a stand-alone noun in standard German; rather, it appears as the ending of the adjective when it modifies a noun. The exact form depends on the noun’s gender, number, and case, and on whether a determiner is present.

In everyday usage, trockenen occurs in several common patterns. With a bare adjective and a masculine singular noun in the accusative case, you typically see trockenen Wein, as in Ich trinke trockenen Wein. In plural, bare adjectives used as nominatives become trockene Weine, for example Die Weine sind trocken. In the dative plural, bare adjectives take the ending -en, yielding trockenen Weinen, as in Wir schenken trockenen Weinen.

When a definite determiner is present, the same endings appear: der trockene Wein (nominative singular masculine), dem trockenen Wein (dative singular masculine), die trockenen Weine (nominative plural), den trockenen Weinen (dative plural). The underlying principle is standard German adjective declension: endings adapt to gender, number, case, and the presence or absence of a determiner.

Trockenen itself is therefore a grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item. It helps express precise grammatical relations and the attribute of dryness for a noun within a sentence, and its exact appearance can be predicted from German declension rules. The word is not commonly used as a proper noun or in other special senses in modern standard German.