wöchentliches

Wöchentliches is the neuter singular form of the German adjective wöchentlich when it occurs in attributive position before a noun. It conveys the meaning “weekly” and describes events, publications or quantities that occur every week. The base adjective wöchentlich can also function as an adverb, as in Wir treffen uns wöchentlich, meaning “we meet weekly.”

In usage with nouns, wöchentliches appears after an indefinite article or without an article in the neuter singular: ein wöchentliches Update, wöchentliches Einkommen. With a definite article, the form changes to das wöchentliche Update (the weekly update). The endings follow standard German adjective declension: neuter singular after das becomes wöchentliche, after ein becomes wöchentliches, and plural forms appear as wöchentliche in die wöchentlichen Updates.

Wöchentliche can also be capitalized and used as a noun: Das Wöchentliche. In this nominalized sense, it can refer to a weekly publication, section or summary, such as a weekly issue or a recurring weekly segment. Plural Die Wöchentlichen can denote multiple weekly issues or items.

Etymologically, wöchentlich derives from Woche (week) with the suffix -lich, producing a term that expresses frequency. The word is commonly employed in formal and informal contexts, for example in business, media, and scheduling, to specify a cadence of once per week.

Summary: Wöchentliches is a grammatical form used to describe a neuter noun as “weekly.” It is distinct from the adverb wöchentlich and from the nominalized noun Das Wöchentliche, which signals a weekly thing or publication.