przygotowawczego

Przygotowawczego is a form of the Polish adjective przygotowawczy, meaning preparatory or intended to prepare. It is used to describe things that serve as preparation for a later stage, event, or outcome. The base form przygotowawczy appears as masculine singular nominative; feminine is przygotowawcza, neuter przygotowawcze, and the endings change with case and number. The form przygotowawczego is the genitive singular masculine or neuter, and appears when the modified noun is in genitive (for example in phrases like programu przygotowawczego or celu przygotowawczego).

Common usages are found in education, administration and planning. Examples include kurs przygotowawczy (preparatory course), rok przygotowawczy (preparatory year), okres przygotowawczy (preparatory period) and komitet przygotowawczy (preparatory committee). In phrases where the noun is in genitive, the adjective takes the appropriate genitive form, yielding structures such as programu przygotowawczego or celu przygotowawczego.

Etymology: the word is formed from the verb przygotować (to prepare) with the suffix -owczy/-awczy, creating an adjective that denotes relation to preparation.

See also: przygotowanie (preparation); przygotowywać (to prepare). The term is typically used in formal, technical, or institutional contexts to signal that a stage or element is intended to prepare for a subsequent main phase. It is not usually used as a standalone noun.