• Listen

  What it means

  Literally “to call things by their name.” Means to speak plainly and honestly about a situation without sugarcoating it—“to call a spade a spade.”

  Vocabulary

  • nazywać — to call/name
  • rzeczy — things
  • imię — name

  Grammar note

  'Po imieniu' uses the dative case after 'po' in this specific construction.

  Beginner

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