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    Translation

    Does the crayfish hold a shred of sorrel or three pieces of reed in its claws?

    Vocabulary

    • rak — crayfish; also: cancer
    • szczypce — claws, pincers (locative pl. szczypcach)
    • strzęp — shred, scrap
    • szczaw — sorrel (genitive: szczawiu)
    • trzcina — reed (gen. pl. trzciny)

    Grammar note

    'W szczypcach' is the locative plural after 'w' (in). 'Strzęp szczawiu' — 'szczawiu' is the genitive of 'szczaw' (of sorrel). 'Trzy części' uses the genitive plural after the numeral 3.

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