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    Translation

    A beetle clacks its jaw — with its jaw clacks the beetle.

    Vocabulary

    • chrząszcz — beetle
    • szczękać — to clack, to clatter (3rd sg. present: szczęka)
    • szczęka — jaw (instrumental: szczęką)

    Grammar note

    'Szczęka szczęką' — verb 'szczęka' (clacks) + instrumental 'szczęką' (with its jaw): a cognate instrumental construction. The chiasmus reverses subject and verb: 'chrząszcz szczęka' → 'szczęka chrząszcz'.

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