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    Translation

    A flea pushed a flea with a flea — and that's the end of the flea!

    Vocabulary

    • pchła — flea (nom. pchła / acc. pchłę / instr. pchłą / loc. pchle)
    • pchnąć — to push, to shove (past fem.: pchnęła)
    • i po pchle — and that's the end of the flea (colloquial: 'done with it')

    Grammar note

    'Pchnęła pchłę pchłą' — accusative direct object (pchłę) + instrumental of means (pchłą). 'I po pchle' — 'po' + locative in a fixed colloquial phrase expressing finality. Five case forms of one noun in one sentence.

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