• Listen

  What it means

  Literally “like ants (genitive plural).” Means there are huge numbers of something or someone — “swarming,” “tons of them,” “like ants.” E.g. “ludzi tam jak mrówków” — the place was swarming with people.

  Vocabulary

  • mrówka — ant
  • mrówków — of ants (colloquial genitive plural)

  Grammar note

  'Mrówków' is a colloquial genitive plural of 'mrówka' (standard: 'mrówek'). Used after 'jak' as a quantity comparison.

  Intermediate

Noticed a typo, a wrong translation, or anything that doesn't look right? We'd love to fix it — just let us know via the contact page. Thank you!