degradujcych

Degradujcych is a non-diacritic form of the Polish genitive plural of the present participle degradujący, which comes from the verb degradować meaning to degrade or to demean. In Polish, degradujący functions as an adjective or participle and describes a noun in a way that indicates the process or effect of degradation. The genitive plural degradujących is used when the head noun is in genitive plural, for example in phrases such as skutków degradujących zachowań. In non-diacritic spelling this becomes skutkow degradujacych zachowan.

Etymology and formation: the word is built from the verb degradować with the participial suffix -ujący, forming a descriptive form that can modify nouns. Like other Polish participles, its form changes according to gender, number, and case; degradujęcy is the base, with degradujacych representing the genitive plural.

Usage and meaning: degradujący descriptors appear in academic and formal writing to denote actions, behaviors, or processes that degrade, demean, or undermine. Common contexts include sociology, psychology, ethics, and law when characterizing harmful practices or attitudes, such as degradujące zachowania (degrading behaviors) or degradujących wpływów (degrading influences) in genitive constructions.

Orthography: Polish normally uses diacritics, where the standard form is degradujący (masc. sing. nominative) and degradujących (genitive plural). The non-diacritic variant degradujcych (or degradujacych) appears mainly in older texts, typefaces without diacritics, or simplified transcriptions.

See also: degradacja, degradować, degradujący (forms in other cases and genders).

Note: The term is a grammatical and lexical construction rather than a standalone concept with a fixed definition beyond its role as a participial adjective derived from degradować.