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ujmowany

Ujmowany is a Polish adjective and participial form derived from the verb ujmować, which can mean to arrest, detain, or seize. As a participial adjective, ujmowany describes someone or something that is undergoing apprehension or detention at the moment in question. The related noun ujmowanie denotes the act of apprehension or arrest, and the term is commonly used in legal, police, and journalistic language.

In usage, ujmowany typically modifies a person who is being taken into custody. It is used in

Notes on terminology: while ujmowany covers situations of detention, more common everyday alternatives for detention or

See also: arrest, detention, seizure, custody, legal procedure.

various
tenses
and
registers,
and
it
agrees
with
the
gender
and
number
of
the
subject,
as
with
other
adjectival
participles.
The
form
is
most
often
encountered
in
statements
about
ongoing
or
completed
detentions,
for
example
in
reports
or
court-related
writing.
arrest
include
zatrzymany
or
aresztowany,
depending
on
the
legal
context
and
stage
of
the
procedure.
Ujmowanie
emphasizes
the
act
of
taking
into
custody,
and
the
participle
conveys
that
the
subject
is
the
recipient
of
that
action
rather
than
the
actor.