Öffentlichen
Öffentlichen is the inflected form of the German adjective öffentlich. It is used to describe nouns in the sense of being related to the public, accessible to people in general, or belonging to the public sphere. The form appears in many common phrases, especially in political, legal, urban and media language.
Grammatical use and declension. In front of a noun with a definite determiner (der, die, das, die),
Verbal use. Öffentlich is primarily an adjective, but the related verb form ver-öffentlichen means to publish
Relation to the term Öffentlichkeit. The noun Öffentlichkeit refers to the public sphere and the general public.
In summary, öffentlichen is a key inflected form of öffentlich used across cases and numbers to express