"Twój tata jest w dobrym stanie."
Translation:Your dad is in good condition.
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Why was 'your dad is in a good state' rejected? The suggestion was 'shape' for 'stan' which would be more general, whereas 'state' is a passing condition. Which is it?
"Your dad's in a good condition" triggered a spurious Missing Space Error ;)
Is there something wrong with using definite article "the" in this case?
Indefinite article, or no article at all, would both be fine. Definite article would be unnatural English.
That feels a bit odd to me, but we still accept it. You probably misspelled something else and got redirected to the main answer, which uses an article.
"Your dad is in a good state" or "Your dad is in good condition", but "Your dad is in a good condition", with the article "a" there, sounds very odd in American English. I would remove the article from the default sentence.
And apparently very odd without it in British English :D Anyway, I changed the main answer.
There's the risk of wrong meaning here I think. The original sentence seems to refer to a passing state (after an operation perhaps ) but to say 'your dad is in good condition' is more a general statement about his health and fitness -as a sort of baseline. There is also 'your dad is in good shape' which could be either passing or more general (might be more of a US usage).
I'd definitely interpret "w dobrym stanie" as the 'after an operation' or 'after an accident' one.
His physical shape, and whether he exercises much - that's "w dobrej kondycji".