wiederholenden

Wiederholenden is the present participle form of the German verb wiederholen, meaning to repeat. In usage it functions mainly as an adjective describing something that repeats or is repetitive. It is built from the verb stem and the participle suffix -end and is declined like a standard attributive adjective in German.

As an attributive adjective, wiederholenden appears before a noun and takes endings according to case, gender, and number. For example:

- die wiederholenden Aufgaben (nominative plural)

- den wiederholenden Aufgaben (dative plural)

- der wiederholenden Aufgabe (dative singular feminine)

- die wiederholende Aufgabe (nominative singular feminine)

- die wiederholenden Prozesse (nominative plural)

The form wiederholenden is thus common in plural or in certain singular forms (notably the dative feminine singular). It can also appear in phrases where the noun is in the dative or genitive case, such as basieren auf wiederholenden Messungen (repeated measurements) or mit der wiederholenden Aufgabe (with the repetitive task).

Beyond its descriptive use, wiederholenden can be found in more technical or academic contexts, especially when discussing procedures, experiments, or patterns that occur repeatedly. In such cases it helps convey that a process or set of observations is not singular but occurs in repetition or repetition-oriented design.

Nominalization is possible but uncommon; the idea of “das Wiederholende” as a noun is rare in everyday German. More frequent are the related nouns Wiederholung (repetition) and Muster (pattern), or the adjective forms using wiederholend or wiederholendene contexts.