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    Translation

    Buy grandma slippers with polka dots, polka-dot slippers buy for grandma.

    Vocabulary

    • kupić — to buy (imperative pl.: kupcie)
    • babcia — grandma (dative: babci)
    • kapcie — slippers (accusative pl. of 'kapeć')
    • ciapki — polka dots, spots (locative pl. ciapkach → 'w ciapki' = with polka dots)

    Grammar note

    'Kupcie babci' — 'babci' is dative (buy for grandma). 'Kapcie w ciapki' — 'w ciapki' uses accusative plural after 'w' to describe a pattern (with polka dots). The chiastic reversal swaps subject and object positions.

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