ungebundenen

Ungebundenen is the declined form of the German adjective ungebunden, meaning not bound, free, or unconstrained. The base adjective can describe objects, states, or relationships that are not linked by binding, attachment, or binding constraints. The form ungebundenen appears in several grammatical contexts, most notably as an inflected ending in masculine singular accusative and in all plural forms, as well as in some dative plural contexts when used with a determiner.

In practice, ungebundenen occurs, for example, as den ungebundenen Mann (masculine singular accusative) and in plural phrases such as die ungebundenen Zustände (nominative plural) or mit den ungebundenen Zuständen (dative plural). The exact ending depends on the determiner and the case, with -en appearing in many inflected positions after definite determiners or in plural forms.

Beyond grammar, ungebundenen also appears in content areas where “unbound” or “unconstrained” is a meaningful description. In physics and philosophy, for instance, one might refer to ungebundene Zustände or ungebundene Beziehungen to denote states or connections that are not bound by a potential, constraint, or binding term.

Usage notes: as with other inflected adjectives, ungebundenen is not the dictionary form. The lemma is ungebunden; ungebundenen is a morphologically conditioned form used to agree with gender, number, and case in a sentence. When teaching or translating, it helps to identify the relevant case and number to choose the correct ending.

See also: ungebunden, binding, state descriptions in physics.