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    Translation

    A good-for-nothing played the balalaika, swallowing semi-fat cheese.

    Vocabulary

    • szałaławia — good-for-nothing, layabout (colloquial)
    • bałałajka — balalaika (locative: bałałajce)
    • połykać — to swallow (gerund: połykając)
    • ser — cheese
    • półtłusty — semi-fat, half-fat

    Grammar note

    'Na bałałajce' is locative after 'na' (on/playing). 'Połykając ser półtłusty' — present gerund expressing simultaneous action; 'ser półtłusty' is accusative direct object.

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