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  What it means

  Variant using ‘rachujmy się’. Love like brothers, but keep careful accounts. Friendship and finances should be handled differently.

  Vocabulary

  • kochać się — to love each other
  • brat — brother
  • rachować się — to reckon with each other, to settle accounts (older/dialectal)
  • Żyd — Jew

  Grammar note

  'Rachujmy się' is the cohortative first-person plural of 'rachować się', an older/dialectal synonym of 'liczyć się'.

  Cultural context

  Variant of the 'liczmy się' form. 'Rachować' is an older word for counting/reckoning, giving this version a more archaic flavour.

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