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I have not used "I am woken up" here as in passive voice but I have used "woken" as an adjective here and more or less the sentence is reffering to the state as in i woke up/i have woken up. I want to ask if this sentence is correct grammatically.

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No, "woken" cannot be used that way.

You're trying to use the participle "woken" as an attributive adjective, similar to:

  • the sleeping child
  • the painted wall
  • the ruined building

Not all participles can form attributive adjectives. "Woken" cannot.

We can, however, use "awakened", though it tends to have a figurative meaning, as in, becoming aware of something, rather than waking up from sleep.

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  • and how about awoken as an adjective "I am awoken" as in "I have awoken"/I am no longer a sleep now
    – Bilal Zafar
    Oct 12, 2022 at 7:04
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It's 'grammatically correct', but it doesn't mean what you think. If you want to say that you are no longer asleep, say I am awake (or, as you suggest, I have woken up).

I am woken up would mean 'someone wakes me up' (assuming you are telling a story in the present tense).

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  • and how about awoken as an adjective "I am awoken" as in "I have awoken"/I am no longer a sleep now –
    – Bilal Zafar
    Oct 12, 2022 at 7:04
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    Awoken is a past participle. This gives one or two examples of it being used as an adjective, but as a learner of English I would strongly recommend you to stick to awake
    – Kate Bunting
    Oct 12, 2022 at 7:47

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