| cause (illness, trouble, accident) | powodować (with negative results and situations) |
| produce (report, evidence, figures) | wywoływać (neutral, deals with concrete results, used in formal contexts) |
| give (happiness, trouble, goodresults, motivation) | dawać (used for positive or negative situations) |
| generate (graphics, publicity, money) | wytwarzać (in contexts where people are forced to do more than usual,in computer contexts) |
| provoke | prowokować/ wywoływać |
| precipitate/ spark off | przyspieszać (quickly, suddenly cause) |
| bring about | spowodować (gradually produced) |
| result in | skutkować |
| incite | pobudzać |
| prompt | skłaniać |
| induce | wywoływać |
| breed | rozmnażać |
| thanks to | dzięki czemuś/komuś |
| as a result of | w rezultacie |
| owing to | z powodu |
| due to | z powodu |
| as a consequence of | w konsekwencji |
