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  What it means

  Literally “Swedish key.” The Polish name for an adjustable spanner or monkey wrench — a versatile tool that can fit many different bolt sizes.

  Vocabulary

  • klucz — key / wrench / spanner
  • szwedzki — Swedish

  Grammar note

  'Szwedzki' is a masculine adjective agreeing with 'klucz'.

  Cultural context

  The tool is called 'Swedish' in Polish (and several other languages) due to its invention by Swedish engineer Johan Petter Johansson in the 1890s.

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