「年なんだから無理」How does one parse this colloquial sentence?


This article <https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210920/k00/00m/040/036000c>
contains the quote

「年なんだから無理」

which I understand to mean

_" The difficulties presented by your age are why it is impossible"_

How does one parse this sentence? Like this?

年【とし】age

難【なん】 (n,n-suf) difficulty; trouble; hardship

だから=です+から

無理【むり】impossible




年 by itself can mean _old age_. From
[goo辞書](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%B9%B4_%28%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%29/#jn-158729)

> 人生の盛りを過ぎた年齢。老齢。

なんだ is a form of なのだ, essentially the same as だ.

  * [Origin of the usage of な in ~なんだ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/66524/origin-of-the-usage-of-%E3%81%AA-in-%E3%81%AA%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0)
  * [コトバンク entry for なのだ](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0-589358)

Thus 年なんだから無理 means _Because (the woman is (too)) old, (her project is)
impossible_.




年 by itself can mean _old age_. From
[goo辞書](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%B9%B4_%28%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%29/#jn-158729)

> 人生の盛りを過ぎた年齢。老齢。

なんだ is a form of なのだ, essentially the same as だ.

  * [Origin of the usage of な in ~なんだ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/66524/origin-of-the-usage-of-%E3%81%AA-in-%E3%81%AA%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0)
  * [コトバンク entry for なのだ](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0-589358)

Thus 年なんだから無理 means _Because (the woman is (too)) old, (her project is)
impossible_.

