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[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

For Nick: I first checked under "zur", found nothing, then moved on to "besonderer" and found what I reported above. I did not check "Verwendung".
L.

And here we enter the minefield that is German grammar … I fully expect to be corrected by our German colleagues but here's what I remember from school:

"zur" is a contraction of "zu der." "zu" takes the dative, so the "der" is feminine dative, not masculine nominative, and the presence of the definite article affects the declension of the ensuing adjective. So the phrase is either "zu besonderer Verwendung" or "zur besonderen Verwendung" but NOT "zur besonderer ..." or "zu besonderen …"