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  What it means

  Literally “history traces a circle.” Means that events come full circle — what happened before is happening again. A more poetic way of saying history repeats itself, emphasising the cyclical nature of events.

  Vocabulary

  • historia — history
  • zataczać — to trace, to describe (a circle) (imperfective)
  • koło — circle, wheel

  Grammar note

  'Koło' is the accusative singular — the object of 'zatacza'. 'Zataczać koło' means to trace/complete a circle.

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