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  What it means

  The butterfly effect — the idea from chaos theory that a small action (a butterfly flapping its wings) can have large, unpredictable consequences far away. Widely used in Polish in both scientific and everyday contexts.

  Vocabulary

  • efekt — effect
  • motyl — butterfly

  Grammar note

  'Motyla' is the genitive singular of 'motyl', used in a descriptive genitive construction.

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