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  What it means

  “The devils took the cow, let them take the calf too.” Variant using the perfective ‘wezmą’ instead of imperfective ‘biorą’. Same meaning: once the big loss is done, the rest doesn’t matter.

  English equivalent

  In for a penny, in for a pound.

  Vocabulary

  • diabeł — devil
  • krowa — cow
  • cielę — calf
  • wziąć — to take (perfective)
  • niech — let (them), may (they)

  Grammar note

  'Wezmą' is the third-person plural future perfective of 'wziąć', contrasting with the imperfective 'biorą' in the other variant.

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