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    Translation

    An earwig walked along the dry road, drying its pincers.

    Vocabulary

    • szosa — road, highway (instrumental: szosą)
    • suchy — dry (feminine instrumental: suchą)
    • szczypawka — earwig (the insect)
    • suszyć — to dry (gerund: susząc)
    • szczypce — pincers, claws (accusative: szczypce)

    Grammar note

    'Suchą szosą' is the instrumental — movement along a surface. 'Susząc sobie szczypce' — gerund expressing simultaneous action; 'sobie' is the reflexive dative (drying its own pincers).

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