ugotowany

Ugotowany is a Polish past passive participle and adjective derived from the verb ugotować, meaning to cook or to boil to completion. It denotes that something has been cooked or prepared by cooking. The form agrees with gender and number: masculine singular ugotowany, feminine singular ugotowana, neuter singular ugotowane, and corresponding plural forms such as ugotowani (masculine), ugotowane (feminine or neuter). In practice, it is used to describe food or other items that are in a cooked state, for example ugotowane ziemniaki (cooked potatoes).

As a word used in grammar and everyday language, ugotowany can function as either an attributive adjective or a predicate in a sentence. It can appear before the noun (ugotowany obiad) or after it (obiad ugotowany). The adjective can also participate in passive constructions with auxiliary verbs such as być or zostać: Obiad został ugotowany (The meal has been cooked) or Obiad jest ugotowany (The meal is cooked).

Common usage includes phrases related to cooking methods and readiness, such as ugotowany na parze (steamed), ugotowany na miękko or ugotowane na miękko jajka (soft-boiled eggs), and other culinary descriptions. The term is widespread in recipes, menus, and instructional contexts to indicate that the food has completed the cooking process.

Etymology and related forms: ugotowany comes from the perfective verb ugotować, with the prefix u- signaling completion. Related verbs include gotować (to cook, imperfective) and the adjective gotowy (ready). The word is a standard descriptor in Polish for food and objects that have undergone cooking.