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Referring to a specific person, thing, or situation just mentioned; the corresponding one. It matches elements of one group with the corresponding elements of another group.
Die Gewinner können ihre Preise am jeweiligen Stand abholen.
The winners can pick up their prizes at the respective booth.
The adjective 'jeweilig' (respective) creates a connection to a previously mentioned group of people or things. It assigns something specific to each element of that group.
Die Schüler gingen nach dem Sportunterricht in ihre jeweiligen Klassenzimmer zurück.
After PE class, the students went back to their respective classrooms.
'Jeweilig' (respective) is used almost exclusively as an attributive adjective directly before a noun. You cannot use it as a standalone predicate in a sentence.
Bitte beachten Sie die jeweiligen Öffnungszeiten der Geschäfte.
Please note the respective opening hours of the shops.
Common combinations are 'die jeweilige Situation' (the respective situation), 'der jeweilige Kontext' (the respective context), or 'die jeweiligen Umstände' (the respective circumstances). It is often used to refer to something specific within a general framework.
Je nach der jeweiligen Situation müssen wir flexibel reagieren.
Depending on the respective situation, we need to react flexibly.
respectively / each
'jeweils' and 'jeweilig' are closely related, but they are used differently in grammar. 'jeweils' is an adverb and means 'for each one individually' or 'in the relevant case'. So it describes how something is distributed or assigned. 'jeweilig' is an adjective and comes before a noun, for example 'der jeweilige Lehrer' (the respective teacher) or 'die jeweilige Situation' (the respective situation). It refers to the appropriate or relevant person or thing in each case. Learners confuse the words because both express an assignment or correspondence. As a practical rule: if a noun comes directly after it, you usually need 'jeweilig'; if the word describes the whole sentence or a quantity, 'jeweils' fits.
Für die Prüfung fragt jeder Schüler seinen jeweiligen Lehrer.
For the exam, each student asks their respective teacher.
Die Gruppen arbeiten jeweils an einem anderen Thema.
The groups are each working on a different topic.