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    Translation

    During the rain, don't crush the earthworm.

    Vocabulary

    • dżdż — rain (archaic/poetic; genitive: dżdżu)
    • zmiażdżyć — to crush, to squash (imperative: zmiażdż)
    • dżdżownica — earthworm (genitive: dżdżownicy)

    Grammar note

    'Podczas dżdżu' — 'podczas' governs the genitive (during the rain). 'Nie zmiażdż' is the negated imperative. 'Dżdżownicy' is the genitive after the negated verb — in Polish, negation shifts the direct object from accusative to genitive.

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