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    Translation

    Five five-year-olds were climbing up the floors.

    Vocabulary

    • pięciolatek — five-year-old (gen. pl. pięciolatków)
    • piąć się — to climb, to clamber
    • piętro — floor, story of a building (locative pl. piętrach)

    Grammar note

    'Pięć pięciolatków' — numerals 5+ take the genitive plural. 'Pięło się' is the neuter past reflexive — used because the subject is a numeral phrase of 5+, which takes neuter agreement.

    Intermediate