pozbawiana

Pozbawiana is a feminine singular present passive participle of the Polish verb pozbawiać (to deprive, to take away). As a participle, it functions adjectivally, agreeing with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case. In usage, it typically describes someone or something that is being deprived of something, often followed by a genitive object (for example, praw, wolności). A common construction is kobieta pozbawiana praw wyborczych, meaning a woman deprived of voting rights.

Morphology and usage notes:

Pozbawiana has the feminine singular form; corresponding forms include pozbawiany (masculine singular), pozbawiane (neuter singular or plural), pozbawiani (masculine animate plural), and pozbawiane (feminine plural in many contexts). The form is widely used in formal, legal, and journalistic Polish to convey deprivation or loss of a right, freedom, or possession. It can occur in attributive position, as in a-noun phrase, or in finite clauses with a form of być (to be), as in była pozbawiana (she was deprived of).

Examples and nuance:

The phrase była pozbawiana wolności is a standard way to say that someone was deprived of liberty. The passive participle emphasizes the state of deprivation rather than an action carried out by a specific agent. In legal and policy texts, pozbawiana frequently appears alongside nouns for rights or freedoms, such as praw, wolności, or uprawnień.

See also:

pozbawienie (deprivation), pozbawić (to deprive), pozbawiony/pozbawiana (participial forms).