wiedergekehrten
Wiedergekehrten is a declined form of the German past participle wiedergekehrt, which derives from wiederkehren, meaning to return or come back. The base sense is “having returned” or “returning,” and the form is used primarily as an attributive adjective before a plural noun when the noun is definite or the case is indicated by the determiner.
In practice, the form appears as wiedergekehrten before plural nouns in contexts such as die wiedergekehrten
The non-attributive or predicate use is distinta: sie sind wiedergekehrt means “they have returned,” with wiedergekehrt
The term is common in historical, political, or journalistic writing to describe people or groups who have
Etymologically, wiedergekehrt combines wieder- (again, back) with kehren (to turn, to return). It should not be