spowodowan

Spowodowan is not a standalone word in contemporary Polish. It is the stem used in grammar for the past passive participle of the verb spowodować, which means to cause or to bring about. The participle forms that appear in actual sentences are spowodowany (masculine singular), spowodowana, spowodowane, spowodowani, and their declined variants such as spowodowanego, spowodowanemu, spowodowaną, spowodowanych, depending on case and number. The form spowodowan itself is primarily encountered as the base stem in linguistic descriptions and dictionaries rather than as a writing form in ordinary prose.

In practice, spowodowany and its inflected forms are used to describe something that has been caused by a particular factor. The word spowodowan serves as the underlying stem in these forms, but it does not occur alone in standard Polish text. The common construction to express causation is spowodowany przez followed by the agent or factor, for example, "spowodowany przez awarię" (caused by a failure).

Related terms include spowodować (to cause), spowodowany (caused), and the related nouns powodowanie (causing, the act of causing) and powód/powodzenie (cause, reason). Understanding spowodowan as a stem helps in parsing and forming the full set of inflected forms typical of Polish adjectives and participles derived from spowodować.