übertragenem

Übertragenem is a declined form of the German verb übertragen when it is used as an attributive participle or adjective. It represents the dative singular form with a strong or mixed declension, occurring when the noun it modifies is in the dative case without a preceding determiner. In practice, you will see it in phrases such as mit übertragendem Sinn, where the ending -em marks the dative singular of an adjective used with no article.

The base verb übertragen has several senses, including to transfer, to transmit, to broadcast, or to translate. As a past participle, übertragen can function as an adjective and take various endings depending on the article or lack thereof. The form übertragenem thus appears in contexts without a determiner and with a preposition that governs the dative, such as mit.

By contrast, when a definite article or another determiner is present, the adjective form changes. For example, im übertragenen Sinn (with a definite article) uses the ending -en, and dem übertragenen Sinn or den übertragenen Sinnen shows the corresponding endings in other cases. These variations illustrate the standard patterns of German adjective declension: strong endings for no determiner and mixed/weak endings when a determiner is present.

In usage, übertragenem is not a standalone word but a grammatical form. It is typically found in literary or precise writing and can occur in phrases describing the sense or meaning that is figuratively transferred, such as mit übertragendem Sinn, or in similar constructions where the context requires a dative, determiner-less attributive form.

See also: übertragen, Übertragung, Partizip II, German adjective declension.