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    Translation

    Rain splashes in the ivy of the forest, in the ivy of the forest splashes rain.

    Vocabulary

    • deszcz — rain
    • pluszcze — splashes (3rd sg. present of 'pluszcze' / 'pluszczać')
    • bluszcz — ivy (locative pl. bluszczach)
    • puszcza — primeval forest, wilderness (genitive: puszczy)

    Grammar note

    'W bluszczach puszczy' — 'bluszczach' is locative plural after 'w' (in); 'puszczy' is genitive of 'puszcza' (of the forest). The chiastic structure reverses subject and verb: 'deszcz pluszcze' → 'pluszcze deszcz'.

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