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    Translation

    A peasant pushes a flea, a flea pushes a peasant.

    Vocabulary

    • chłop — peasant, man (colloquial)
    • pchać — to push (3rd sg. present: pcha)
    • pchła — flea (accusative: pchłę)

    Grammar note

    'Pchłę' is the accusative of 'pchła' — the direct object of 'pchać'. The sentence is a chiasmus: subject and object swap in the second clause, with the verb 'pcha' unchanged.

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