Chłop pcha pchłę, pchłę pcha chłop.
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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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