"Ona jest niepełnosprawna."

Translation: She is disabled.

[Fedec24]

what about 'she is handicapped'

[Jellei]

Yup, works.

[babbeloergosum]

How is this word composed? It seems to have nie- (not) in the beginning, so it's literally a negation of "abled"?

[RobinB896941]

To better remember this surprisingly long word, I dissected nie-pełno-sprawn-a|y to:

• nie – not

• pełny – full(y)

• sprawny – functional, intact, mobile

Not fully functional (Ger.: nicht voll funktionsfähig), not fully intact (Ger.: lädiert) and not fully mobile all work well for me, though I'd not use them publicly in either in the UK or Germany where, as in a few other countries, the concept is a pc (political correctness) minefield...

[10 Feb 2019 13:06 UTC]

[Jellei]

not fully... fit? I can't find a good translation for 'sprawny'.

[babbeloergosum]

Thanks man for answering all my questions so quickly! Having such eager moderators makes the course even better!

[Jellei]

Thanks for your kind words :) Just to specify more: "pełno" is not a direct translation of the adverb "fully" (which would be 'w pełni' or 'całkowicie'), but this is what this part means.

[Lukjasz]

Maybe "not fully efficient"?

[Jellei]

Could be, although my first thought would be "wydajny".

[EwaPink]

I think a literal translation of not fully able is closest, although a fair bit of Polish is contextual, so the same word or a variation of it might be used in a considerably different way elsewhere.

[Jellei]

Well, a British native told me that "not fully able" wouldn't really be used in this context...

[akikotsukamoto]

Is "invalid" wrong?

[Jellei]

"an invalid", so using it as a noun, works.