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  What it means

  Literally “fools aren’t sown — they grow on their own.” Means that stupidity needs no cultivation; there’s never a shortage of fools. Said in exasperation after encountering someone particularly dim.

  Vocabulary

  • głupi — fools, stupid people (plural)
  • siać — to sow (imperfective)
  • rodzić się — to be born, to grow (imperfective)

  Grammar note

  'Głupich' is the genitive plural after negation — 'nie sieją głupich' requires genitive. 'Sami się rodzą' — they are born by themselves, on their own.

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