skadajcego

Skadajcego is a form of the Polish present active participle skadający, meaning damaging or causing harm. In contemporary Polish it functions as an adjective-like participle and is used to describe nouns in contexts where something is characterized by causing damage or harm. The form skadajcego is the genitive singular masculine, typically appearing in phrases such as ryzyko skadającego wpływu, meaning a damaging influence.

Morphology and usage notes: as a participle-derived adjective, skadający agrees with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case. In the genitive masculine singular, the form appears as skadającego (in non-diacritic texts often written as skadajcego). Although understandable, skadajcego is relatively rare in everyday Polish; more common synonyms for harm or damage include szkodliwy (harmful) and szkodliwy wpływ, or niszczycielski (destructive). Skadajcego is therefore mostly found in formal, technical, or stylistically precise writing where a precise nuance of “causing damage” is desired.

Semantics: the term conveys a sense of ongoing causation of harm, rather than a one-off injury. It can apply to physical, environmental, economic, or abstract effects, depending on the noun it accompanies. Because it is a participial form rather than a standard dictionary headword, its usage tends to be limited to specific constructs (for example, risk assessments, policy analyses, or descriptive prose about damaging processes).

See also: szkodliwy, szkodzić, niszczycielski, damaging, impact.