rozpraszajcych

Rozpraszających is a Polish present active participle derived from the verb rozpraszać, meaning to distract or to scatter. It functions as an adjective and describes people, things, or stimuli that cause distraction. In common usage you can encounter phrases such as zjawiska rozpraszające uwagę (distracting phenomena) or osoby rozpraszające uwagę (people who distract attention).

Morphology and usage: as with other Polish participles, rozpraszających inflects for gender, number, and case. The base form is rozpraszający (masculine singular nominative), with rozpraszająca (feminine singular) and rozpraszające (neuter singular). In plural, forms align with the noun they modify. The spelling rozpraszających is the standard modern form for many cases, while rozpraszajcych is generally considered a nonstandard variant or a misspelling, especially in texts that omit diacritics.

Etymology: the word comes from the verb rozpraszać, augmented by the present participle suffixes that yield rozpraszający/rozpraszająca/rozpraszające and their plural forms.

See also: rozpraszać, rozpraszać uwagę (to distract attention), rozproszyć, uwaga.

Note: The term is mainly used in linguistic, cognitive, educational, or descriptive contexts to identify factors that divert attention. In everyday Polish, speakers more commonly use phrases like „to distract attention” or substitute with synonyms such as „odciągać uwagę.”