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  What it means

  Even a horse with four legs stumbles. Everyone makes mistakes, no matter how capable.

  English equivalent

  Even Homer sometimes nods.

  Vocabulary

  • koń — horse
  • cztery — four
  • nogi — legs (plural of noga)
  • potknąć się — to stumble, to trip

  Grammar note

  'Też się potknie' uses the reflexive 'się' with the perfective future of 'potknąć się'. 'Też' (also, even) adds the sense of 'even so'.

  Cultural context

  The horse — a symbol of strength and reliability in Polish rural culture — is used to show that even the most capable can err.

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