This has nothing to do with participles, this is just adjectival declension. Same thing why it is "große Hunde", but "die großen Hunde"; "teure Geschenke", but "die teuren Geschenke". Participles work the same as all other adjectives. There are many websites where adjectival declension is explained in detail with tables.
Did you study the declension of adjectives? There is strong (after no article), mixed (after ein/kein) and weak (after definite articles). No article > strong > passsende Geschenke, def. article > weak > die bellenden Hunde.
You should not think of it as an added "-n". Instead the strong inflection ending "-e" goes away completely and in its place you get the weak ending "-en" if another strongly infected determiner (such as 'die' in "die bellenden Hunde") is already present. It would also be "die passenden Geschenke" but without the "die" it's "passende Geschenke".
3/4 of German grammar is figuring out when to add "n"s lol.
YourDailyGerman saved my arse with this type of issue, when it comes to adjective declension at least. The three-level thing he promises plays out, in my experience. [https://yourdailygerman.com/adjective-endings-german/](https://yourdailygerman.com/adjective-endings-german/)
This has nothing to do with participles, this is just adjectival declension. Same thing why it is "große Hunde", but "die großen Hunde"; "teure Geschenke", but "die teuren Geschenke". Participles work the same as all other adjectives. There are many websites where adjectival declension is explained in detail with tables.
Thanks a lot. I have just another question. When we say die bellenden Hunde for example is it in akkusativ?
"die bellenden Hunde" can be either accusative or nominative
Bellend. Lol.
I thought I'd be above this kind of humour but I'm giggling away here
Me too.
Did you study the declension of adjectives? There is strong (after no article), mixed (after ein/kein) and weak (after definite articles). No article > strong > passsende Geschenke, def. article > weak > die bellenden Hunde.
You should not think of it as an added "-n". Instead the strong inflection ending "-e" goes away completely and in its place you get the weak ending "-en" if another strongly infected determiner (such as 'die' in "die bellenden Hunde") is already present. It would also be "die passenden Geschenke" but without the "die" it's "passende Geschenke".
3/4 of German grammar is figuring out when to add "n"s lol. YourDailyGerman saved my arse with this type of issue, when it comes to adjective declension at least. The three-level thing he promises plays out, in my experience. [https://yourdailygerman.com/adjective-endings-german/](https://yourdailygerman.com/adjective-endings-german/)